Using multisite to develop then export to a single install is a bad idea. For one multisite behaves different than a single install and you want your dev to as close to the production as possible. It’s also a pain in the a** to manually export the right db tables then import them into a … Read more
Unfortunately, the switch_to_blog() method isn’t going to work for this purpose. switch_to_blog() is really only a partial switch – it makes some modifications to $wpdb that help with database queries. But it’s not a complete switch in the way you might imagine. In particular, dynamic_sidebar() depends on global called $wp_registered_sidebars. This global is populated by … Read more
By now, it is possible without any plugin. WordPress allows you to edit a sites domain and path free of any restrictions once it is created. First of all: create a new site with an arbitrary but valid subdomain: After the site was created follow the »edit site« link in the confirmation message. Here you … Read more
When using function like wp_insert_post() It will work on the currently active blog, meaning that if you are on a blog in your network with blog_id of 2 the the post you insert using wp_insert_post() will be inserted to that blog. Now if you want to insert the post to a specific blog you can … Read more
This doesn’t sound like something coming from WordPress core. Quick search online got pretty slim results, but it seems to be asscociated with WP All Import plugin.
The number you refer to is the blog/site ID, so you have multiple methods of finding out which site it is: Look in the sites table, the number should match the ID, providing you with a URL and title Go to example.com/wp-admin/network/site-info.php?id=insert-number-here and you’ll be shown the network admin UI for that site Consider a … Read more
$wpdb->base_prefix gets the original prefix (ie, the ‘root’ site in a Multisite installation). It was added in Version 3.0.0, right when Multisite became a part of WordPress core. $wpdb->prefix will get the prefix for the current site in a Multisite installation. Per the documentation for the wpdb class: $prefix The assigned WordPress table prefix for … Read more
Since “WordPress MU is no longer under active development as a separate product“, I don’t recommend using it. Instead I recommend using the setup described in this answer. It’s highly configurable you can choose what WordPress files you want on all your WordPress sites and what you want to store separately from each other WordPress … Read more
Short Answer example.com/bob/files/picture.jpg is the preferred, canonical URL for images in a WordPress Multisite installation. The two URLs with blogs.dir in the URL are essentially identical, and both leverage the filesystem structure. The path with ‘bob’ exists because you did a sub-directory install, not a subdomain install. Other paths would exist based on your other … Read more
After many hours of debugging and despair, the problem is now solved. It turned out to be a very obscure thing. The redirect is issued by the function ms_load_current_site_and_network() inside /wp-includes/ms-load.php. It was issuing the redirect because /wp-includes/ms-settings.php was not able to set a domain. The reason it was not able to set a domain … Read more