When you edit wp-config.php the second time – when the installer tells you to update your wp-config.php file with a bunch of multisite-related includes – at this point remove the definition for WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE. REMOVE this line: define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true); based on your example above, you’d be left with: /* Multisite */ define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true); define(‘MULTISITE’, true); define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, … Read more
Install WordPress in its own directory. Follow the instructions on the link provided. You would need to install two WP files in the root directory – index.php and .htaccess. Those may or may not interfer with your existing web site.
Do you have any data showing that user meta won’t work? Until you do — don’t mess with it. You are not likely to get from-scratch solutions as convenient and more performant without significant effort.
Read User Access paragraph on the Codex here: Multisite Network Administration
Did you check your ISP’s setting? E.g. in Dreamhost’s control panel you have these 3 options: Do you want the www in your URL? Leave it alone: Both http://www.domain.com/ and http://domain.com/ will work. Add WWW: Make http://domain.com/ redirect to http://www.domain.com/ Remove WWW: Make http://www.domain.com/ redirect to http://domain.com/
Use network_home_url( $path=””, $scheme = null ). You can see it in /wp-includes/link-template.php. Examples: // Root of main site $network_home = network_home_url(); // About page on main site $network_about = network_home_url( ‘about/’ ); In a network, the main site has always the same ID as the network ID. network_home_url() uses get_current_site() which return the global … Read more
If you want to construct for example: http://example.com/?ref=1,8,22 for multiple administrators of the current sub site, you can try the following (untested): $uids = get_users( array( ‘blog_id’ => get_current_blog_id(), ‘role’ => ‘administrator’, ‘fields’ => ‘ID’, ‘order_by’ => ‘ID’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ) ); echo $url = add_query_arg( array( ‘ref’ => join( ‘,’, $uids ) ), … Read more
According to the Codes on capabilities the manage_sites and manage_network_users should grant these options, or am I not reading correctly? Apparently, the capabilities here are not enough. Check out wp-admin/network.php. You’ll see it dies if the current user fails the is_super_admin check. This check gets the $super_admins global from get_super_admins and returns false if the … Read more
Finally I have been able of import the database succesfully. Because my path is localhost/projects/example and no only localhost, after doing the replace with the plugin I have to manually change some tables path. On wp_blogs and wp_site tables I have: Domain = localhost/projects/example Path = / I have to change to: Domain = localhost … Read more
I would suggest to use Search and Replace utility when you move your WordPress Network. it seamlessly update all the fields of the database from old domain to new domain. After that, you only need to update the domain name in wp-config.php. (Tip: do not include http:// and trailing slash while replacing the domain rather … Read more