There are two ways to setup a multisite network, using subdomains and using subdirectories. Your current setup is for subdirectories and to change the URLs the way you want them you‘ll need to change the setup to use subdomains. This is a great article explaining the difference between those two setups and how to change … Read more
It seems from your example that the key parts of the URL structure are staying the same. 2016/5/document.pdf That means you could use a plugin like ‘Better Search Replace’ (https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/). Simply choose to replace: www.example.com/files/ with www.example.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/#/
Now here is how you can disable it in WordPress Multi-sites: Login to Dashboard Go to Network Admin Go to Sites tab Click on Edit link for particular site. Toggle to 4 tab under it – Settings Look for “Uploads Use Yearmonth Folders” Change the value in text field from 1 to 0 Save the … Read more
WP-CLI has a couple of commands to install Multisite (or convert a non-Multisite WP installation to Multisite): wp core multisite-install wp core multisite-convert Are either of those what you’re looking for?
When Multisite was first rolled into core (from a project call “multi-user”, which is why you’ll sometimes see references to “mu-*”), the terminology was that you’d run a site of blogs. Now we refer to a network of sites, but because the functions had all already been named, get_current_site() gets the current network. You’ll need … Read more
Your problem is not a WordPress problem, but a server setup problem. WordPress is perfectly capable of handling the requests to the subdomains, but those requests never reach WordPress. Your server is not configured to map those subdomains on to your WordPress install. That’s why you get the placeholder, as that’s what your server is … Read more
I think to explain it all here is a bit beyond the scope. Perhaps it is best to start here, and then you can ask detailed questions if you encounter problems:https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress-multisite-network
I’d recommend using get_sites() instead of crafting $wpdb calls. Add this code to your theme’s functions.php file. function wpse365255_print_sites() { $args = array( ‘number’ => 10000, // if you’ve got more than 10,000 sites, //you can increase this ‘public’ => 1, ‘spam’ => 0, ‘deleted’ => 0, ‘archived’ => 0, ‘site__not_in’ => array( 1, 2 … Read more
get_blog_option() return blog info by supplying blog id and blog option name. So you may try changing the blog name variable from $details->blogname to get_blog_option( $site->blog_id, ‘blogdescription’) in the loop Becauae get_blog_details() does not add the description from option to its output object. So it let is needed to manually fetch additional information. By default, … Read more
I’d just export all content from the site you want to keep. Then create a new WP instance, import that exported data, tweak as required. Once the site is OK, make the new site active for the desired domain name (in your hosting, point the domain to the new site’s folder). No messing with databases … Read more