The answer is here: Domain redirect in WordPress multisite. You need to use the domain mapping plugin. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ A must read http://ottopress.com/2010/wordpress-3-0-multisite-domain-mapping-tutorial/
You can use get_blogs_of_user() to get all the blogs of a given user. So to get a list sorted by the users: global $wpdb; $blogs = array(); $user_ids = $wpdb->get_col( ‘SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->users’ ); foreach( $user_ids as $user_id ) { $blogs[$user_id] = get_blogs_of_user( $user_id ); } // you can use var_dump( $blogs ); to … Read more
I’ve ended up with using such solution: 1) Created folders like: wp-base – wp-admin – wp-includes – …. all wp-php files and I’ve created “symlink” that 2-folder and wp standard php files inside other folders: my-wp-1 – wp-content & wp.config.php & htaccess my-wp-2 – wp-content & wp.config.php & htaccess The only thing I had to … Read more
Not sure what caused this, a (hackish) fix that worked for me though: RewriteRule ^blogs/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+)/wp-admin/$ blogs/$1/wp-admin/index.php [L]
The function that deals with this is ms_site_check(). If existent, it will use the following files. And they should render a full custom HTML page. WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/blog-deleted.php’ WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/blog-inactive.php’ WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/blog-suspended.php’ Another option is to short-circuit the process and redirect the visitor. It has to be done with a Must Use plugin … Read more
The best solution is to add a widget area that all sites have access to use and then add a text widget. How I handled this since I had one child theme being used was I added a functions.php file and copied a duplicate of the index.php from the parent theme file into the child … Read more
One way to achieve this, is to alter the way WordPress maps the request to a blog in your multisite network by using the sunrise.php drop-in. Sunrise overwrite the default setup in wp-includes/ms-settings.php. There, a bunch of global variables are set up like $current_blog or $current_site. To activate this dropin you have to define the … Read more
As far as I know, Multi-Domains from WPMUDEV is the only plugin which works flawlessly with the lastest version of WordPress. It is BuddyPress compatible, has a single signon and even a multi-subdomain feature (blog1.subdomain.site.com, blog2.subdomain.site.com). There is a free alternative, but it has not been updated for the latest version of WordPress (the author … Read more
You can map regular domains to a WordPress Multisite installation using the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin. There’s also a great tutorial available: WordPress 3.0: Multisite Domain Mapping Tutorial For reference … I asked a similar question yesterday. I have a client who hosts multiple blogs with unique domains, but it becomes a hassle to … Read more
Get a dedicated box with Nginx. That’ll go pretty far even before caching. It mostly depends on your traffic tho. Number of blogs matters a lot less, becasue I’ve seen a network with 10 blogs suck up a gig of RAM becasue of the hits it was getting.