The path to your assets will vary based on where you are calling for those assets. For example, when referencing a background img URL in a CSS file, this path is relative to the location of the CSS file. Contrast this with asset calls inside page content – which are relative to the published page … Read more
The $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] global will usually contain the domain/subdomain to which the current request was sent, but with a few caveats. In the context of a web request, the variable is set at the discretion of the web server and proxies, and Apache/Nginx may not pass that header along depending on their configuration – or may … Read more
First you should read the Codex entry on domain moving http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress But in a nutshell: aside from moving your contents phisically to the /blog location, all you have to do is search and replace every SQL entry for the previous domain (instead of just changing the domain in WordPress options). Doing this by hand is … Read more
After changing the WordPress URL to blog.denschool.com, edit your .htaccess file. If there is a line reading RewriteBase /blog, change it to RewriteBase /
Change your name-servers with wordpress.com name-servers. Before Upgrading – Important Notes WordPress.com automatically removes the “www” from all URLs. Mapping the “www” subdomain is not supported. Also, they do not currently allow mapping to subdirectories, such as example.com/blog. Instructions for Mapping Subdomains Add a CNAME record through the registrar where you purchased your domain or … Read more
WP multisite (subdomain) is the answer – http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network In addition you can install the WP Domain Mapping Plugin to run on other domains You need to decide whether you want WP multisite subdomain or sub-directory installation. WP subdomain does exactly what you want, but WP subdir + domain mapping plugin allows you to have both … Read more
You can have a subdomain, but you cannot detect mobile users reliably. And you shouldn’t. How to use a subdomain with the same content In your wp-config.php, look at $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’]. If it matches m.example.com, enforce the current domain as main domain with … const DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE = ‘m.example.com’; … and filter the active theme: add_filter( ‘stylesheet’, … Read more
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
Without more detail about the kind of template you’d be serving up, the best I can advise is that you can use the ‘template_redirect’ hook to override the entire Template Hierarchy. A more delicate way to do this would be by using on of the more specific filters. Each of the conditional get_*_template() functions in … Read more
Today, I’ve posted a working solution for exactly the same problem. You can see it here: How to share WordPress session and cookies between domain and subdomain?. I use this method on several of my own websites.