It may not be the most graceful way of doing this, but you could setup a redirect using PHP, instead of using htaccess. So you could do something along the lines of, just changing the Google URL to your other websites: <?php if ( is_home() ) { } else { ?> <?php $websiteURL = ‘http://www.google.co.uk’; … Read more
This function, which I use in my “Multisite Media Display” plugin, will put all subsites into an array. Note that there are two ways that are required to do this, depending on the WP versin, since wp_get_sites is deprecated as of 4.6+, but is still allowed in 4.6+, even though it doesn’t return site names … Read more
WordPress Network with SSL for multiple domains
I personally love multisites, because you only need to make updates once on core, themes and plugins. It also saves on hosting charges and makes user management easier. It also keeps uploads, posts, pages and custom content separate. I guess you question comes because of having sub-domains (e.g. weddings.website.co.uk) or sub-folders (e.g. website.co.uk/weddings). I hear … Read more
You could create a router of sorts yourself, but the work has been done over at WPMU. I’ve used this before with great success! Try out Multi-Domains for WP Multisite. https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/multi-domains/
The ID is just an identifier in the database. Every new row (site) is added at the bottom, so you will always get a new ID. This is how MySQL works. The only way around that would be a manual edit of the database. I wouldn’t worry about that. The ID doesn’t matter on the … Read more
It all depends on what exactly you are doing. Method one One site will be the first to register users on. If you are allowing users to register themselves without any plugins this will need to the the main site (e.g. blog 1) for the Network (Multisite) installation. Then you can add the user role … Read more
There is the option that you don’t allow the user to register on the main site, allowing them to register on the subsite only. The plugin network-subsite-user-registration allows this, if the user is already registered on the network then they are automatically added, by the plugin, to the site requesting registration. The hook that does … Read more
I actually just finished setting up https on a multisite here – https://wpexplorer-themes.com/ – personally we are using CloudFlare so we just create a new page rule inside our dashboard to redirect traffic. The way to set things up depends on your server for example on WPEngine when you setup your SSL there is a … Read more
For the if True section. This code is saving into the network-wide “host” option the value of the posted host-url argument from the settings page. For the else section of code. the register_setting() is registering for the option-group ‘my_settings’ on the settings page it would need to have add_settings_section() and add_settings_field() to become part of … Read more