From a user perspective there are two noticeable differences. First of all the GUI for creating new sites. Either it shows an input field for the first segment of the URL path (subdirectory) or an input field for the subdomain you want to use for the new site. (Setting the URL to a completely arbitrary … Read more
“example2.com sub1.example2com” Actually for subsites off of mapped sites, you want a multi network plugin. Free – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/ Paid – http://wpebooks.com/networks/
As of clarification via comment, you really don’t need a additional version, subdomain with the same content. What you need is to get the post content, nothing more. The styling and such should happen in your app, not by pulling it from the site. At least that’s how I feel about it. Anyhow, for this … Read more
More than an answer, a study on the matter. The Excel issue we need an array, and Excel can provide a CSV a couple of solutions: How to extract data from csv file in php? not implemented here Relevant Q&A What’s common to all is: no definitive procedure has been recorded in this Stack. Programmatically … Read more
I began using Multisite just a few months ago, and am really loving it. You’re going to want to use the sub-domain structure if you have a host that supports it. I use a Media Temple Grid Server plan. It will allow you to create a subdomain and then mask it with a symbolic link. … Read more
In WordPress you can easily do this with sub-directories like example.com/user1 Sub-domain & URL Strategy Having username.domain.com will prevent you in the future from having your own sub-domains like shop.example.com and will plague you if you wanted to use www.example.com or just http://example.com Finally … what if some user wants to use expletives or special … Read more
Use the defines to make it pick the site you want it to pick. You can define these four to setup the $current_site values properly: DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE, PATH_CURRENT_SITE, SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE, BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE. If you check the wpmu_current_site() function in ms-load.php, you’ll see that it uses those to create the $current_site global. You may or may not have to … Read more
my name is Daniel Kanchev and I work for SiteGround as a Senior Web Apps Engineer. The described issue is pretty strange and I just configured a test WordPress Network on one SiteGround shared server. I did not face any similar issues and I used sub-domain names with a wildcard SSL certificate. Usually such issues … Read more
I might have a solution for you. First steps: Within your domain’s DNS manager you need to create a CNAME record. The name would be blog and the hostname would be your domain name. This is necessary because the browser needs to know where to point the subdomain blog.mydomain.com to; Second, you need to tell … Read more
Domain Mapping via Core You don’t need to use the domain mapping plugin if you are planning on running a WordPress Multisite with top-level domains and/or sudomains. WordPress allows you to change a sub-domain to a top level domain once you have added the site settings, see the screenshot below. Core works perfectly without Alias, … Read more