Why am I doing wrong? You’re breaking WordPress. On a subdirectory installation, the /blog permalink is there on purpose and for a very specific reason – to make your main site continue to work while still allowing you a network dashboard. When you install a subdirectory site, WordPress automatically uses /blog for the main site … Read more
First, the link for two gems for every Multisite expert or wannabe or in-between. WordPress Multisite 101 Setting up a new WordPress install is pretty easy. Setting up Multisite requires just a little more savvy, and the information is all over the place. This ebook strives to pull it all together, explain you what skills … Read more
The mechanic is the same in Single and Multisite installations. And yes, the plugins inside mu-plugins will be activated in the entire Network. To enable a new thumbnail size in all the sites except the one with ID equal to 3: global $blog_id; if( $blog_id != 3 ) add_image_size( ‘category-thumb’, 300, 9999 ); //300 pixels … Read more
See http://wpmututorials.com/how-to/localization/ Basically after you install the language packs, go to that site and change the language option from the admin area.
BackPress does not offer any multisite support libraries, you’ll have to build those yourself with the support of the WordPress multisite source code. The following are the major parts making up multisite functionality: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-admin/network.php, deployment of a multisite environment. http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-admin/includes/ms.php, most multisite administration functionality http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-admin/includes/ms-deprecated.php, deprecated administration functionality, can have some useful stuff http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-includes/ms-functions.php, Multiite … Read more
In short: No, it hasn’t been fixed – You should use the plugin instead. In Detail: Activation hooks should work for the main site properly. For subsites (or as Nacin pointed out: for all sites), you should use a proper upgrade routine. Not that I double that 1). 1) Note to myself: When a core … Read more
There is actually an existing tool called Sitewide Tags that takes care of this. Essentially, it creates an extra hidden site on your network and mirrors content from each of your other sites on it. Then, when you search, you search against the hidden site and get links back to the original content location. I’ve … Read more
Use the plugin WordPress MU Domain Mapping. Read the installation instructions very carefully. There is also an ebook WordPress Multisite 101 where you can read more (like migration from single site installation etc.). You can activate themes per single site as usual. Or set the constant WP_DEFAULT_THEME in your wp-config.php depending on the host name: … Read more
That’s pretty simple: You’re trying to get the parent property from the $post object, but that is either NULL or simply not attached. In both cases, you are Trying to get property of non-object from the $post object. Simply check if ( isset( $post->parent ) ) { /* do stuff */ }.
I imported/exported between a single wordpress blog and a multisite wordpress without problems, many times. Personally on a multi-site wordpress I have a parent generic theme and each website has it’s own child theme with as few files as possible, mostly only html/css for custom post types. Security issues or big complicated options are most … Read more