Every front end page request on a WordPress site produces a main query. The template that WordPress decides to load is based on the results of that main query (you can see the order that WordPress does these things by looking at the Action Reference page). Despite the fact that you never output the results … Read more
I understand that your question is about to establish a default role for a site, such as ‘contributor’ or ‘author’, but also when the site does not exists yet. I found a code snippet that changes the role when the user creates a blog: function user_role_to_new_blog($blog_id, $user_id) { add_user_to_blog($blog_id, $user_id, ‘author’ ); } add_action( ‘wpmu_new_blog’, … Read more
No real difference either way, really. Network installs make the most sense when you want all the sites to share a single set of users. But the basic table handling is pretty much the same either way.
If you want all unregistered subdomains to redirect to the main domain site: function prevent_multisite_signup() { $domain = $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]; $domain = explode(‘.’, $domain); $domain = array_reverse($domain); $domain = “$domain[1].$domain[0]”; wp_redirect($domain, 301); exit; } add_action(‘signup_header’, ‘prevent_multisite_signup’);
Due to the nature of a WordPress Multisite install it is not even possible to have two different hosting packages for one Multisite. A Multisite install is actually the same as a single WordPress install. The only difference is the configuration in the wp-config.php and in the options. The database used for all the Sites … Read more
You would need to contact the super administrator if you want more capabilities however here’s a summary. Super Admin – somebody with access to the site network administration features and all other features. Source http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities The capabilities of the site administrator role are reduced in a WordPress Network. Site admins cannot install new themes or … Read more
This code goes in your child themes functions.php file. add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘wpsites_redirect_ms_front_page’ ); function wpsites_redirect_ms_front_page() { if ( is_main_site() && is_front_page() ) { wp_redirect( ‘http://www.example.dev/’, 302 ); exit; } } Something like this should work (untested). Modify Code Simply swap out the URL in the code above. You can also change the 302 to 301 … Read more
Filter locale if is_admin() is TRUE: is_admin() && add_filter( ‘locale’, function() { return ‘it_IT’; });
Use the default export plugin and use a new install, Single mode. Import the XML file and done. All other options have more todos and risk.
I have never benchmarked this but… Since every HTTP request is a distinct request, the whole WordPress Core will load on every request either way, and a little bit more code loads for Multisite. So, it seems to me that two installs should run slightly better than a single multisite install, though I doubt you … Read more