You have to ignore the “otherside” in the htaccess file of your “root” blog. You can try to add something like that above the (root) WordPress’ .htaccess code: # stuff to let through (ignore) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} “/otherside/” RewriteRule (.*) $1 [L] #
Check if the Primary option is selected for the second domain under domain mapping settings. It should say Yes under Primary in Settings->Domains for that domain.
Install WordPress as a multisite installation. Check Codex! for how to start. You can google for more tutorials on how to setup a multisite installation.
There is no code I know of to automatically partition databases like that based on their size, but if you want to use something to manually split your system across multiple databases, then HyperDB is one way to do that. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/hyperdb/
Your user are not inside the user-list of each blog in network active; maybe you are Super-Admin. Go to ‘Sites (All Sites)’ –> Edit a blog in Sites –> Tab ‘Users’ –> Add your user to the list of users and see the dropdown.
Cannot guarantee, but I believe there will be zero SEO impact. The new subdomain site inside Multisite will be an exact clone of the former standalone subdomain. Same theme, plugins, content, canonical URLs. Steps to take: the standalone subdomains cannot reside in the same folder where Multisite will run, e.g., something like /home/user/public_subdomains/ instead of … Read more
Answered from this thread. Summary: The .htaccess redirect for www/non-www… # www redirect RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.subdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] Put it ABOVE your WordPress rules on domain.com. Should work. Example: RewriteEngine On # DOMAIN #1 – Redirect non-www urls to www RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain1.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain1.com/$1 [R=301,L] # DOMAIN #2 – Redirect non-www … Read more
Maybe you are looking for a URL Rewrite (.htaccess) answer, but a simple solution is giving the site name its ID. Not related, but useful: add a column with the site ID in the Sites screen (/wp-admin/network/sites.php). Drop the plugin in the mu-plugins folder. <?php /** * Plugin Name: Multisite – Add Site ID Column … Read more
Yes, this is the correct behavior, and no, there is nothing you can do about it in a multi-site setup. But that’s usually not a problem; disk space is cheap. Maybe you could run a workaround with a single-site installation and rewrite rules to map subdomains to URLs like /author/post-name/. But that sounds like a … Read more
For people, as me, that comes to this thread, looking for a solution, pll_get_post() is your function. I think this is the easiest solution for this problem. $the_translated_page = get_page_by_title( ‘Custom page’ ); $the_translated_page = pll_get_post( $the_translated_page->ID ); $the_translated_page_URL = get_permalink( $the_translated_page ); I’m pretty sure that this function (pll_get_post) was recently included in the … Read more