this is a complex task (and takes even longer if you have many subsites already). THINGS TO THINK ABOUT Basically allow yourself 48 hours and start by making a list of all things that will be affected such as: – Adwords – Google Webmaster Tools – Google Analytics – PageRank – Twitter / Facebook & … Read more
The issue was that half of the site still used the old wp-content for images under this method so I ended up changing the wp-admin doing a find and replace instead of a htacess redirect.
Yes, with domain mapping and a compatible hosting account. There are a few good domain mapping plugins available that may work for you with a little configuration. I have used Domain Mapping pluginby Barry, as well as WordPress MU Domain Mapping. There is also the Multi-Domains plugin from wpmudev, which allows the creation of subdomains … Read more
One way to do it is to use the Networks for WordPress plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/networks-for-wordpress/ It will create a sub-network for each of your domains. So basically you’d have a network of networks of sites. Each sub-network will be using the same install of WordPress, but will be managed separately with it’s own sites under it. … Read more
I guess you are searching for the wpmu_create_blog() function. Just disable the standard registration process and attach this function to the regular registration. user_register is a good action hook to do this. Regarding your second question I don’t think there is a built in way. A good start is the wpmu_delete_blog() function. You could trigger … Read more
Have a look at your vhost and check for ‘allow override=All … If this is also a new server it might explain the problems See my post here on how to check your apache config You might also like to check that the folder permissions are set correctly for WordPress ie www-data (the Apache user … Read more
Instead of changing WP_HOME etc, it would be best to enforce a single domain, e.g. local.example.com or shared.example.com and then use the HOSTS file to set that address to 127.0.0.1 This way there is no change to the URLs at all as it is unnecessary, and the shared DB content is consistent (this menu doesn’t … Read more
Start right now with multi-site, before you add content. Moving content from a former single site to multi-site on the same domain is not exactly a seamless process. And yes, subdomains are one of the features of a multi-site setup.
This is currently not possible for a multisite setup. It should be possible in WordPress 3.5 which is planned to be released next month. So your only solution is: wait. Update December 26: This is now possible in WordPress 3.5 without further hacks. 🙂
Took a little while to run through, but this is where we end up. On line 85 of wp-settings.php, it checks if the MULTISITE constant has been defined. If so, it loads the multisite files that handle things like figuring out which blog you are on. One of those files is /wp-includes/ms-settings.php. I believe it … Read more