“example2.com sub1.example2com” Actually for subsites off of mapped sites, you want a multi network plugin. Free – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-multi-network/ Paid – http://wpebooks.com/networks/
Shortly after, I was able to find Otto’s tutorial on the topic. WordPress 3.0: Multisite Domain Mapping Tutorial
As cdn.mydomain.com is not part of your WordPress network, it wont be affected by your settings. The COOKIE_DOMAIN constant should only be used if you want to serve cookies from a single domain for all your sites in the network. If you omit the constant or set it to an empty value, cookies will belong … Read more
[Update] An alternative (maybe better) is to use the following constant in wp-config.php: define( ‘NOBLOGREDIRECT’, ‘http://example.com’ ); At the very beginning of wp-signup.php file there is this code: function do_signup_header() { do_action( ‘signup_header’ ); } add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘do_signup_header’ ); So, it’s just a matter of adding the signup_header action hook to break any further execution … Read more
Use Active Directory Integration plugin and any membership plugin for managing membership registration and management. Check s2membership, paidmembershippro. Use pro-site plugins (and other) from WPMUdev for multi-site auto-provisioning. Or if you already use WHMCS, you could get WHMCS multisite auto-provisioning module.
Ok, I gave up and moved to port 80, though i think what @Boultge suggest (the link) would have probably done it, but I read it too late. Here are the files tho that are letting me run XAMPP WordPress MU sub-domain Multisite on localhost as wp.dev with 20 additional WordPress individual sites. I shortened … Read more
WP-CLI methods for get_current_blog_id, get_blog_details or $wpdb->prefix
When you set WordPress to multisite, in an “out of box” fashion, you create a single network of sites. Let’s, say, a network of food blogs. With plugins like WP Multi Network you can set up multiple networks. You could split that food blogs network into several networks: mediterranean food blogs, brazilian food blogs, thai … Read more
I implemented a MU site similar to this a few years ago and there are some caveats you need to consider before going that direction. It’s helpful to think of an MU installation is a convenient way of accessing the administration of multiple, independent WordPress installations. It operates not much differently than if you installed … Read more
An example that displays an admin notice listing a randomized array with all blog IDs, the result of a get_posts( array( ‘numberposts’ => 1 ) ) and marking the first one which get_posts result is different from zero. Result After refreshing: Code add_action( ‘admin_notices’, ‘wpse_60401_print_random_blog’ ); function wpse_60401_print_random_blog() { global $wpdb; $rows = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare( … Read more