Running multiple sites with one installation and one central management. Also known as network.
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How to delete post revisions?
I haven't set a limit to the number of revisions, which makes some of my post have more than 20 revisions, so how to delete these revisions?
By the way, I am using WPMU and have many blogs, so how to ...
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How do I make specific plugin functionality apply to different sites in a network?
I have a site specific plugin that I've written for the main site in my multisite network. Now I realize that the shortcodes that are in the plugin are also useful on the sub-sites, however the ...
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How to set permalink structure via functions.php
I'm setting up a Wordpress Network and wanted all new sites to have the same permalink structure (i.e. "/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/"). I'm wondering if this is possible to do via hooks or hacks in ...
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How to get blog name, when using Wordpress Multisite
I have a wordpress multisite installtion with 5 sites within, the multisite is called Lifestyle
Homes
Cars
Architecture
Holidays
Communities
I am trying to get the blog name, for each blog when ...
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I want to develop locally with Multisite, then migrate each site to separate remote WP installs
I use WordPress for the majority of my client work. I develop locally with MAMP and then move the sites to the remote server when its time to go live or show the client the progress. I just migrate ...
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Use wp_nav_menu() to display a Menu from another site in a Network install?
So I'm basically upgrading an older site and I need to make it multisite as well for some blogs and such.
I'd like to have the main site Menu(created from the admin) available on the other sites in ...
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What is the most comprehensive backup plugin for WordPress (it does not have to be free)? [closed]
Related to this question
I am currently using Automatic WP backup. It works ok. Now I am looking for something more comprehensive and granular. A plugin that let's me choose the sites to backup ...
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Can upload doc and pdf but not ppt - not permitted for security reasons
"Insert search engine here" was pretty useless for this one - I've had a look through wp-includes/functions.php, wp-admin/includes/file.php etc. but not found a reason for the behaviour I'm getting.
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Can You Export Theme Settings From WordPress Multisite?
I do local WP development on a WordPress Multisite instance. What is the best way to move theme settings from there to the live instance? By theme settings I am talking about widgets and theme ...
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What is the best way to load the WP environment in a subdomain of my multisite Wordpress install?
I have a subfolder install of WP multisite, let's say at "domain.com".
I now need to load the WP environment in subdomains of domain.com, say "sub1.domain.com", "sub2.domain.com", ... ...
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How to set configuration options for particular sub blogs?
Is it possible to set configuration options such as DEBUG mode only for specific sub blogs in a wordpress multisite installation? If so, how?
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Editing theme files and access to the Code pages only to super-admin?
When I deal with Multisite installation.Some themes like mystique and aparatus provide the widget areas with in the theme-settings page to enter Advertising codes in the form of HTML or java script ...
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How to use same email for multiple users
I have a very big multisite. And I got a request to enable option that multiple users can use the same email. I found a plugin "Allow Multiple Accounts" which doesn't work properly. I should figure ...
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Is there a way to define wp_blogs domains in wp-config?
In my multisite setup I have multiple environments that I want to share the same database, but use different domains.
server1.example.com
server2.example.com
example.com
... each of those would ...
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Lock one of WP Network sites for not registered users
I have a blog network (Multisite), with domain mapping plugin installed, and some of my sites are under development, so I want to lock them from not registered users.
I tested a few plugins designed ...
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How do I know if a user has a blog in Wordpress Multisite?
I have a Wordpress Multisite installation with Buddypress. I would want to restrict people from creating another blog so that they have only one blog.
How do I achieve this?
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Multisite - Protect categories from deletion?
UPDATE: For anyone following this thread, the plugin solution does work, but seems to have a problem on my multisite format. I have now tested on 3 individual installs and on 3 multisites. On the ...
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Multisite, turn off “create new site”
If someone enters the wrong URL to my wordpress multisite, they get the option to create another site in the network. Why does this happen, and how do I turn it off?
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Multisite with Different Domains
This question is similar to Multisite with entirely different domains? which was not answered. I am re-asking.
I want to host multiple domains using WP multisite, which is installed and working ...
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Multisite behind Varnish
I'm trying to use varnish with a wp 3.0.5 site with Network (Multisite), when I access the varnish URL, I get this message:
Multisite only works without the port number in the URL.
Do I need a ...
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Why can't a WordPress network (multisite) in it's own folder use subdomains?
If I'm setting up a brand new multisite installation with WordPress in it's own folder (say /wp/) why can't I configure the network to use subdomains instead of subfolders?
Currently, if I try to ...
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Settings API in Multisite - Missing update message
When I use the settings API in a multisite installation and the options page sits at the network level, posting the options to options.php does not work, because the administration page sits at ...
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Best way to develop multisite and deploy on another server?
I have no previous experience in developing multisites so be easy on me. I´m familiar with developing and launching single sites though.
I´m looking for the smoothest way to build a multisite for my ...
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Sub-directory blog on a sub-domain WordPress network site
I have a WordPress Network install with the individual sites installed on subdomains.
example.com
a.example.com
b.example.com
I would now like to launch a blog on each of the sites. It'd like the ...
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WordPress Multi Site Best Practice
This question is mainly to get some clarification on best practice for setting up a WordPress Multi-Site. As I have not done this before. I have outlined the scenario below. All help is greatly ...
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Import a regular WordPress blog into a MU installation
I am looking for a safe way to import independent blogs into a WordPress MU installation.
The basic idea is to merge multiple blogs running on subdomains into a single wordpress installation with MU ...
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Two-level multisites in WordPress
I'm wondering if there is a way to implement something like sub-multisites, like parent-child multisite relation.
So, what i want is a way to have something like this:
/site1
/site1/subsite1
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How to modify author base slug with groups and slug to use nice_nickname?
After reading the following suggestions from Jan Fabry regarding URL rewrite and the author slug I took the challenge in combining both solution in one.
Change author base slug for different roles
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Uninstall script for a plugin in Multisite
I've just realized that the traditional uninstall.php file along a plugin is not working in Multisite.
if ( !defined( 'WP_UNINSTALL_PLUGIN' ) )
exit();
delete_option( 'plugin_option_name' );
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On Multisite: Loop to Show First Four Images of Recent Posts Across Network
I would like to display the first four images from posts across a WordPress network.
In Otto's image gallery tutorial he recommended using the following to get images from recent posts. Query ...
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how to enable different number of revisions for different blogs when using WPMU?
for example i would like blog1 to have at most 3 revisions for each post
but i want blog2 can have at most 10 revisions since this blog may have more than one editors that i want to enable this blog ...
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How to Limit Bandwidth for Multisite?
I know this has been discussed all over the net throughout the years, but I can't find a recent article.
Is there any way to limit bandwidth on a per-site basis for multi-site?
I'd like to limit data ...
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BP Multi Network & Members Directory
With bp-multi-network it appears members are shared across all networks.
Example - networks based on location.
newyork.mydomain.com, losangeles.mydomain.com, vancouver.mydomain.com
At present a ...
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Is there any fundamental difference in developing a wordpress multi-network site?
I would really like to know: Is there any fundamental difference in developing a multi-network site as opposed to a normal wordpress site?
More Specifically:
Is the wordpress plugin development ...
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merging two multisites
I need to merge two existing multistes. Each has some 40 blogs, and the end result should be that all 80 blogs reside on one WP installation.
Any advice or experience on how to best apporach this ...
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4 single sites VS multisite wordpress
We're currently running a multisite wordpress install for 4 sites. Running into problems with pretty much every plugin ever made (mostly issues with user account creation etc), I'd really like to ...
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WordPress Network on IIS7/SQL Server - Rewrite Issues
I've just installed a fresh WordPress setup on Windows Server 2008 Web R2 (IIS7) with SQL Server Express and WordPress 3.1.
I completed the install successfully and logged into the admin section to ...
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W3 Total Cache Plugin with WP 3 MultiUser
I'm having some strange behavior with my W3 Total Cache solution working on my multi-user Wordpress 3 installation. The multi-user is setup to use sub directories, and I'm using all types of caching ...
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Change management solution for BP-based site?
I administer a social networking site that runs on WP, BP, and WP Multisite. Currently I have two servers: development and production, but I plan to move to three: development, staging, and ...
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Multisite Independent User Base
I run a multisite blog farms with all blogs having a consistent functionalities (theme and plugins and some basic content), but independent from each other in terms of user database. I would like to ...
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Category page doesn't use category.php, instead it redirects to homepage
I am currently modifying a theme. This theme doesn't had a category.php I needed a custom category page. So, I made one. It works on my local server, but when I uploaded it to a real server, this page ...
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WordPress Multisite: Automatically run importer upon creating new site
Is it possible to automatically run the WP Importer when creating a new site in WordPress Multisite?
I think this would need to be a function that runs when wpmu_new_blog is called but can't find ...
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Asian language multisite IDN subdomain
Using an IDN internationalized domain name in Thai appears to work fine. However when using WP Multisite Subdomain network and trying to ADD SITE as a SUBDOMAIN - it is not accepting the Thai ...
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How to make wp-signup.php a 1-step process [closed]
I'm developing a multisite for Real Estate agents. Wp-signup.php used the wrong page template from my theme (homepage instead of full width page template), so I took the meat and potatoes from ...
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get_user_meta() to Return User Meta Only for Current Blog in Multi Site
I've written a plugin that allows users to bookmark their favorite posts, but have run into a small problem when using it on a multisite network.
Each time a post is bookmarked, the ID of that post ...
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Overriding the default WP Multisite notification e-mail
Is it possible to hook in and override the default notification message for WP MS? I know the message being sent out is in /wp-admin/user-new.php
if ( is_multisite() ) {
function ...
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Are page/post IDs unique across a whole network?
If I have a page with ID 123, I know my template file page-123.php will be called to render it, but if my theme is used across a network, could a page in a different site also have ID 123?
I assume, ...
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What type of Google tracking should I use?
I have WP Multisite and now I want to track the different sites.
I'm using Multisite Domain Mapping to map www.mysite.com to http://subsite.mysite.com
My questions is:
a) Do I need to add the same ...
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Sharing Ad Revenue among Users of a Multisite in a Collaborative Model?
Is anyone aware of some functionality to share the revenue among the users of a Multisite?
A multisite lets other people create and mainatain their own blogs. The Multisite owner should able to ...
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Clone a wordpress website with same functionality, but different content
I have got a Wordpress website and I would like to create a new one with exactly the same functions, themes/templates (apart from the color), plugins, etc. An exact clone of the current one, but with ...
