How to remove and disable access to General Settings Page including its link
There is a plugin called “Admin Menu Editor” that can do just this. I have used it numerous times without issues.
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Multisite signup spam troubles
There is a known problem as described in this ticket and this blog post The problem was identified in 2.9.2 but looks to also have been identified in 3.0. From the sounds of it, the wordpress team won’t fix this bug, because they feel spam is inevitable, and that it is the responsibility of spam … Read more
WordPress multi-site: How do I create the home page, the root URL?
You can set your homepage in WordPress by creating your page (the slug doesn’t matter) and then going into Settings > Reading and selecting the page in Front page displays > Front Page setting.
Get latest blog post from another multisite blog
Appearance >> Widgets >> Select RSS and enter any blog feed you want. You can do it using the default rss widget in wordpress. Create a widget box to appear where you want through functions.php file in your theme. or you can get jNewsticker from Codecanyon and enter the feed from the blog and copy … Read more
Old Website Address Still Showing
I’m not sure what exactly is the problem that you’re having but hopefully this solution will work. Backup your database (This is very important) Download this script: http://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ Use it to replace the old url “theshortfilm.co” to the newer one “welovefilm.co” Remove all the url-related configurations you did in your “wp-config.php” Go to admin panel … Read more
WordPress MU wp_posts table
wp_posts table will be for the “main” site — the one from which the network was installed. wp_*_posts will be for other sites in the network — one set of tables per site. Excerpts are only saved when a user enters something in the “Excerpt” field in the admin area. If nothing was entered, nothing … Read more
Install multisite wordpress on a subdomain and map to top level domains
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.
Where are the files that control the multisite user dashboard?
Most of these files are in wp/admin/network. But be aware that some are just wrappers for regular admin files one level up: they include the corresponding file. What you probably need are the hooks and the function is_network_admin() that checks if you are currently on a network admin page. Most hooks and global variables are … Read more
How to sync roles across Multisite?
There’s an action hook in the set_role function. It’s a matter of detecting if this is happening in the main site, and, if it does, get all blogs of the user and change all roles. More details in code comments. add_action( ‘set_user_role’, ‘sync_user_roles_wpse_91745’, 10, 2 ); function sync_user_roles_wpse_91745( $user_id, $role ) { // is_multisite() used … Read more
Locking one blog of many in a multi user/blog WordPress installation
It depends on your user account structure. The superadmin of the MU can always edit anything and you cannot lock that one out for obvious reasons, but you can remove all other users from that 1 website you want to lock down. Go to Network Admin > Sites > Edit (link) and then in the … Read more