No, if production goes down then there’s no way to serve the site, since it’s a multisite, and a multisite is still a single install of WordPress. It’s possible that code in the theme may bring down a site inside a multisite without bringing down the entire thing, but any DR site will be running … Read more
From the description of the error you get, it seems like you do not get at all to your account related software when trying to access the child on http. This sounds like a web server configuration error, so in your case you need to make sure that in your cpanel you enabled subdomains for … Read more
How do they relate to each other? What are their different uses within WordPress? define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]); define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”); These 2 are not the same thing, e.g. for a WP site whose root is at example.com/wp DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE will be example.com, and PATH_CURRENT_SITE will be /wp define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1); define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1); Site != blog. In a multisite you … Read more
It’s up to you. Normally when you create and query a table you use the $wpdb->prefix property as part of the table name. In a multisite install this prefix includes the current site ID. So if you use dbDelta() to create a table with the name $wpdb->prefix . ‘tablename’, then — assuming the default prefix … Read more
Yes, this is possible (see https://wordpress.org/support/article/create-a-network/). For sub-domains you’ll need to confirm that your DNS has a wildcard entry for your domain. So, based on your root domain, this would work for: mysub1.multisiteroot.com, mysub2.multisiteroot.com, etc. If you wanted to us different domain names for subsites, then you’d need to have those domain names point to … Read more
The simplest way to create identical websites on different domains is to use the plugin Multiple Domain. This allows you to have a single WP install with one database serving two domains. Next step is to copy this DB to a Chinese server, where create a script to copy DB and files from the main … Read more
The “Deleted”, “Spam” and “Archived” attributes If you checked “Deleted”, “Spam” or “Archived”, the site would no longer be accessible to the public and all users except super admins, and the only thing non super admins would see is a notice saying: “This site is no longer available.” if the “Deleted” attribute is checked. “This … Read more
Note: Super Admins only have meaning in WordPress Multisite. I’ve assumed below that you’re running Multisite, though your question isn’t tagged as such. Super Admins are stored as a serialized array in the {$prefix}_sitemeta table in the site_admins record. In my local installation, with only the user ID adminpj as a Super Admin, here’s what … Read more
Answering your first question, yes it is absolutely possible to have one installation of WordPress running ‘within’ another (i.e. installed at example.com and example.com/child). I have something like that running right now.
I just ran your page through the NET console on Firebug just so I could see what was loading … and wow … you have a lot of things loading that don’t need to be. From the looks of things, the following plug-ins are adding scripts and other collateral files to your load which are … Read more