get_option() returns an option for the current blog. In single site installation, the current blog is the only blog. So get get_option() returns the option for it. get_site_option() is used to retrieve an option network-wide. It means that you can get the same option from any site of the network. When this function is used … Read more
Why not just use get_option(‘upload_path’) after your switch_to_blog( $blog_ID );? Does that do it?
You could use the Domain Mapper plugin for this. Drawback being that you’d have manually configure each subblog.
In order to do what you want , you can add whatever fields you want, and then store them in the user_meta … (One could also store them in the $user_info array/object, but I am not sure what would be the benefit .. ) // Render Form Fields add_action(‘register_form’,’k99_register_form_add_theme_field’); // Checking add_action(‘register_post’,’k99_check_fields’,10,3); // Insert Data … Read more
There are plugins to set the site to SSL. Why not use one of them? And you do have an SSL certificate installed and active?
Yes, and no! The way users work in a multisite scenario is that there is a single pool of users, who are then associated with blogs. So, logged in status is common across all the blogs, but you can use is_blog_user($blog_id) to determine whether the current logged in user is a member of that blog. … Read more
You can use the parse_request action to accomplish this. Simply enable this plugin on your primary blog. Place the following code in a .php file and upload it to your plugins directory. /* Plugin Name: Redirect Main Site To Sub-Site Description: Redirect ‘main-site’ to ‘main-site/sub-site/’ Version: 0.1 Author: WPSE Author URI: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com License: GPL2 */ … Read more
As @tom-j-nowell said in comment to OP, multisite can make this easier. Performance and security are not really a problem for multisite (at least, not more than they are for regular installations), but I do agree that multisite can sometimes be a problem, because a lot of plugins (either custom or 3rd party) may not … Read more
One thought – when I go to www.example.com/staging/wp-admin it automatically redirects me to www.example.com/wp-admin Could the redirect from staging.example.com to example.com/staging be conflicting with the existing install? UPDATE: looks like it could be related to .htaccess issues and complicated domain references in the database From the WP Codex: Moving WordPress Multisite Multisite is far more … Read more
Oh I feel fairly stupid now. When looking at the user page again I noticed a checkbox for demoting the users access rights: Super Admin – Grant this user super admin privileges for the Network. Since unchecking that box, it appears that I can now remove/delete the user.