I’ll try to outline the fundamental steps — your mileage might vary, depending on your actual setup. I tend to manage WordPress deployments in an automated manner (e.g. Ansible), so I have a preference for command-line scripts and config files. Define the home and site url in the wp-config.php file of your production environment (the … Read more
Change author URL from /author/xyz to a subdomain xyz.domain.com for each new registered users
You could go around and not allow indexes? Add this to a .htaccess file, in the same directory as the .png and .mp4 files. Options -Indexes
https://frufinurlig.wordpress.com/ shows the message that the name “is no longer available. The authors have deleted this site.” WordPress.com does not “recycle” their user name subdomains. You need to pick another account name when you sign up at https://wordpress.com/start/survey
There should be a way to redirect users to a certain page or post if a specific url is given. Try one of these plugins (in a staging environment if possible – if not, backup!): https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/subdomain
will WordPress be aware that it is called via HTTPS and change all links on the pages to HTTPS ? While WordPress knows if a request comes via HTTPS, it doesn’t change all the links automatically. Only certain links are updated to use https:// that too, without any subdomain part. Any hardcoded links would remain … Read more
There are some questions I have but cannot add a comment so will do my best to help clarify the steps to set up a subdomain network: http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network. First, the multisite feature of WordPress needs to be enabled. Did you do the steps required to enable multisite? Second, the same wordpress files are used for … Read more
The only ways to have WordPress use subdomains is: Install separate instances of WP on each subdomain Install a Multsite WP instance with subdomains So: Sorry, but no.
Rather than manually making changes to the WP tables, I use the “WP Clone” plugin. It saves the entire blog to a zip file, then you Restore that on the new site (using WP Clone). The restore process makes any needed changes to the domain names/links/whatever, so the new site just works. You will log … Read more
Thanks for your help, Jack, it was really useful. What I ended up doing was using the export and import function in the control panel. I returned the original blog to the main server directory. I then created a new installation of WordPress inside my website’s directory. It was just then a case of exporting … Read more