I would prefer Option 1, that is deploy it on a subdomain. Once contents are filled up you just need to do 2 things. Move the files to root directory of main domain. Using hosting’s File Manager, it would take 1-5 sec. Change the WordPress Site URL to your main domain. You can following method … Read more
The 404 error you are seeing is from Apache. Which means you did not configure Apache properly. It is not an IP address problem at this point. Possible problems – .htaccess file is not working or Apache is not allowing .htaccess file. One way to see if your htaccess file is being process is by … Read more
You can have a subdomain, but you cannot detect mobile users reliably. And you shouldn’t. How to use a subdomain with the same content In your wp-config.php, look at $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]. If it matches m.example.com, enforce the current domain as main domain with … const DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE = ‘m.example.com’; … and filter the active theme: add_filter( ‘stylesheet’, … Read more
every subdomain has it’s own directory on the server when it’s created, so for example, if in the cPanel I set the mysite.example.com as a subdomain, the relative directory will be created in the root of the server, with the name of mysite.example.com. I’ve read that the subdomains must point to the main wordpress installation … Read more
Your first attempt does not work because get_template_directory_uri returns the URL to your theme directory. Your second attempt will work, but if you don’t want to hard code the domain you could either try using a root relative path or fetching the domain portion of your site url. Relative path: wp_register_script(‘circle-bounce’, ‘/js/general.js’, array( ‘jquery’, ‘jquery-effects-core’, … Read more
I continued looking for an answer elsewhere, and found one. Basically, the “cookie domain origin policy” was the issue, not sign-in process. I was calling domain.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php from a subdomain fr.domain.com. I called fr.domain.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php instead, and that worked.
When you create a new user in such a shared user table, the roles and capabilities are set for one site only. The name and the ID will be available on all sites, but without any privileges the user cannot do anything useful. You have to hook into ‘user_register’ and copy the roles and related … Read more
What you have does indeed sound more like production and development. General practice it that between these two the data only goes from production to development, but never the other way. Having true staging, you can push the data from to production, is challenging precisely for the reasons you describe. There are solutions around, but … Read more
You Can try force SSL with any 3rd part plugin or hardcoded in wp-config https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/
will WordPress be aware that it is called via HTTPS and change all links on the pages to HTTPS ? While WordPress knows if a request comes via HTTPS, it doesn’t change all the links automatically. Only certain links are updated to use https:// that too, without any subdomain part. Any hardcoded links would remain … Read more