1) No data/settings/options are lost, very rarely deleted, when deactivating plugins. 2) You do not need a wildcard subdomain unless you want to let visitors register for/create their own site/blog. But it doesn’t hurt to have it. Else: explicitly add all subdomains in zone file. 3) In case you want several domains to map to … Read more
The problem is that when you log into the HTTPS site, WordPress sets the ‘secure only’ flag on the authentication cookie and so this cookie isn’t sent to your HTTP-only sites. You can change this by overriding the secure_signon_cookie filter in a plugin or theme and returning false: function no_secure_signon_cookie( $secure_cookie, $credentials ) { // … Read more
WordPress has a built-in setting for this that can be set in the Settings > Permalinks screen. Choose “Custom Structure” and add in your desired prefix/subdirectory at the start of that input field with a slash after it. /subdirectory/%postname%
Cloudflare is usually used as a CDN, just to deliver parts of the site like images. In a typical setup, you would not set up redirects at all. You just use their plugin and it automatically pulls images and similar assets from the CDN instead of your domain. If instead you are trying to set … Read more
Rather than post this as a bunch of comments, I’m going to make this an answer. Your requirements/questions: to Have a Super admin that has access across all wp sites. That’s a hallmark of Multisite. to use both, subdomains and subfolders, in the chosen setup (see example above). You can accomplish this with something like … Read more
Settings in .htaccess tell the server how to handle requests. Since the site previously allowed both www and non-www URLs, you’ll want to keep your .htaccess in place, so old links redirect properly. However, that doesn’t tell WP that it’s now living in the www subdomain; it stores URLs in many places. You can ignore … Read more
You’re using $user_id = get_option( ‘admin_email’ ); and then using that $user_id. However, get_option( ‘admin_email’ ); returns an email address, not the int that wpmu_create_blog() expects. So your sites are (presumably) being created with a user_id of 0. Here’s how I’d address this: $user_email = get_option(‘admin_email’); $user_object = get_user_by( ’email’, $user_email ); if ( false … Read more
You’re probably going to have to write some custom SQL for that. Here’s an example function that would do this. It’s slightly insecure as we can’t use $wpdb->prepare to put the blog_id in (it surrounds anything inserted with quotes). <?php function wpse33779_get_posts_from_blog( $blog_id = 1 ) { // is this is the current blog, just … Read more
The site not being listed under My sites has happened to me loads. Go to Network Admin > Sites and you should see you site. The username is more than likely, not yours, Simply go into the user editor section add your self as an admin and delete the default user. This should make it … Read more
Make sure your webhost gives you the ability to use WildCard DNS. I know some hosts such as Dreamhost don’t allow it on their shared hosting plans.