It will be a problematic thing to do as it will require you to let the webserver run scripts as a system root. It is somewhat hard and requires a lot of thinking security wise about the implications of letting a web server do it. But you are spared of all that thinking 😉 as … Read more
I was able to get a work around in place. Since I was deleting all blogs with no user interaction. I created two mysql queries and ran them. The first was to drop all tables associated with the given $blog_id the second was to remove that row from the wp_blogs table. $blogs = wp_get_sites( array(‘limit’ … Read more
In my experience WP doesn’t like being accessed from anywhere that’s not the site url in the wp_config table. If you want to change the URL to your new(?) one this codex page should help, however it will probably prevent you from accessing by your old(?) url.
This appeared to be a very strange bug coming from either my laptop or my network connection. I ended up turning on my VPN and I was able to access everything normally. Hopefully this helps if anybody else runs into this strange issue.
The number of tables is not an issue by itself. Actually separating the tables for each blog make each operation related to a specific blog more performant. Your scaling problem will come more likely from the big monolithic users tables. Scaling issues will come from the amount of requests your DB will have to handle, … Read more
To be honest even after your Update: How may I fix the fact that the admin area preserves the original url when using the Domain Mapping plugin (the one with the sunrise.php)? I don’t quite understand whether you want to “Redirect administration pages to network’s original domain” or not. In any case, as per the … Read more
The link provided by Christine Cooper has a great answer. There are many ways, and you can look through the plugin WP Latest Posts for code, too. Start by looking at the get_last_updated function. WordPress provides get_posts as the basis to retrieve posts, even across a network. In addition, take a look at switch_to_blog() to … Read more
A WordPress multi-site or “network” would fit your need exactly. One thing to point out based on your example. You may only choose sub domain or sub folder installation. WP multi-site is not geared to do both by default, you must choose one or the other at setup. The setup is surprisingly simple: http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network Regarding … Read more
The api does support it, but not with the obvious wp_create_user. You need wp_insert_user.
If I understand correctly you have main web site which is not WordPress, but you want to implement WordPress Blog inside it, and create premalinks/categories as you described. If I were handling this requirement, I would go about it by installing separated WP instance on subdomain, such as blog.example.com , and then create categories like … Read more