Unless you use the primary site to host all of your content, including pages and posts, this isn’t going to be possible, and the nearest you can get requires a lot of kludges. Your existing ‘kludge’ invokes a lot of serious problems, and was a ticking timebomb of maintenance performance and security issues. This would … Read more
For remote management of many installations of WordPress, I know of two options, one paid, one free. ManageWP ManageWP is a WordPress management console that gives users full power and complete control in managing virtually any number of WordPress sites in the easiest way possible. InfiniteWP Manage multiple WordPress installations from a single dashboard using … Read more
my name is Daniel Kanchev and I work for SiteGround as a Senior Web Apps Engineer. The described issue is pretty strange and I just configured a test WordPress Network on one SiteGround shared server. I did not face any similar issues and I used sub-domain names with a wildcard SSL certificate. Usually such issues … Read more
Use $wpdb->base_prefix . ‘table_name’ as a table name when you want to create a table for the whole network, or when you want to run queries on it. $wpdb->base_prefix is always the prefix for the current network’s main table.
I was able to override the multi-site notification email by adding these: remove_filter(‘wpmu_signup_user_notification_email’,’admin_created_user_email’); add_filter(‘wpmu_signup_user_notification_email’,<function_name_here>); add_filter(‘wpmu_signup_user_notification’,<function_name_here>); add_filter(‘wpmu_signup_user_notification_subject’,<function_name_here>); Adding the three filters at bottom i.e. email,notification and subject allows you to override the content and the subject of the email.
Editing super admin capabilities is a little different from editing the capabilities of every other role, because there is a slight detour in the way WP checks the current user’s capabilities. This is what you find on capabilities.php on line 864: function has_cap( $cap ) { // (…) // Multisite super admin has all caps … Read more
[note: I solved the problem before asking this question and thought others would find my research/solution helpful, see Can I answer my own question?] The site in question uses a custom theme and site-specific plugin (that registers custom post types, custom taxonomies, etc), both of which I’ve written. It turns out that the wp-activate.php bootstrap … Read more
I addressed a similar question on StackOverflow last month. In MultiSite, “blog” is a reference to an individual website. “Site” is a reference to a network of “blogs.” In the future, there’s the likelihood that WordPress will be able to power multiple networks (“site”s) in addition to its current state of multiple “blog”s. Update I’ve … Read more
Here’s a solution that worked for me: http://thereforei.am/2011/03/15/how-to-allow-administrators-to-edit-users-in-a-wordpress-network/ Pretty elegant and doesn’t involve messing with core.
I cannot speak to all plugins loading even when disabled, but gravity forms is not designed for heavy usage and could well be contributing significantly to the problem. I used to work with a large client that used gravity forms and their admin panels ( and submitting forms ) became so slow that eventually they … Read more