Tagged Questions

0
votes
0answers
8 views

Can a multisite installation have different top level and sub domain urls?

Sorry if the question is vague. I'm working on setting up a multisite installation for a number of unrelated university sites: sitea.exampleu.edu siteb.exampleu.edu etc.. All of these will be the ...
0
votes
1answer
33 views

Multisite for main in subdirectory, subdomain and subfolders (EN/ES)

(Spanish below, is my native language) Hello. I have a domain <http://my-site.com> and I want to restructure it, used to have a drupal for the portal and numerous installations of wordpress in ...
0
votes
1answer
44 views

Subdomain is not working

I just finished setting up my multisite. However the subdomain is not working. I believe I followed every step necessary to create a subdomain network for wordpress multiste. I also have created a ...
1
vote
1answer
13 views

Child Site doesn't appear in the Network menu

As you see in the snapshot, just the main site appear in My Sites menu, Although it appears correctly in the "Network Admin". I used the subdomain installation when I configured the Wordpress MU. And ...
0
votes
1answer
43 views

Subdomain login problems

Tonight I installed a clean copy of WordPress on my local machine, with the intent of trying to set up a subdomain multisite installation. (I've got lots of experience using subdirectories, but this ...
0
votes
1answer
35 views

Is it possible to put a site other than #1 as a Multisite top-level domain?

Assuming a WordPress network with subdomains: [blog ID #1] http://mysite.com [blog ID #2] http://site1.mysite.com [blog ID #3] http://site2.mysite.com Is it possible to move one of the subsites ...
0
votes
0answers
41 views

All link are showing blank page in multisite subdomain

I have enabled multisite subdomain. First site : http://www.adsclipper.com Second site : http://jobs.adsclipper.com If click second site like and then go to home page and all the nav menu and css ...
3
votes
1answer
85 views

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 ...
0
votes
0answers
37 views

Running 2 Multisites with Sub-Domain Setup (sub sites not propagating to proper domain)

I have set up on my web server two WordPress installs with multisite. One in the root, the other in an addon domain's directory. I gave both domains (Root and Addon) a wildcard sub-domain entry and ...
0
votes
0answers
22 views

overwrite global current_site variable in admin section

I'm working on a simple Wordpress mu-plugin to allow a multisite network setup on a subdomain to allow basedomain signups through the admin section. The code to the plugin: add_action( ...
1
vote
1answer
77 views

Set up Network Locally on a Flash Drive

I've previously used WAMP for developing WordPress themes locally using a WordPress Network using sub domains. Having to set it all up again every time I want to develop on a new computer is a pain, ...
0
votes
1answer
80 views

Install multisite wordpress on a subdomain and map to top level domains

I am going to be setting up a network of sites using WPMU and the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin. The idea is to install WP on sub.maindomain.com and use that as my network site. I will be ...
2
votes
0answers
34 views

Updated multisite locally

I manually updated multisite locally with 3.5.1 but now all my subsisites in "My Sites" link to the root site even though if I type the domains directly they work.
1
vote
1answer
400 views

Multisite setup on IIS with subdomains

I have Wordpress 3.4.2 set up on a Windows 2008 R2 server with IIS 7.5. I enabled multisite using subdomains and set up one additional site, call it child.example.com. I can browse to the main site at ...
1
vote
0answers
89 views

How to set up Wordpress Multisite on multiple domains without plugin?

How to set up Wordpress Multisite, sub-folder setup, on multiple domains without plugin? For expample if I have two domains www.domain-one.com and second www.domain-two.com, i would like to have ...
1
vote
1answer
36 views

Start with multi-site feature now or later?

I have a single installation of Wordpress in my web host and would like it to manage 2 domains or websites. One is for the domain and the other is for its subdomain/s. dummy example: www.swimming.com ...
7
votes
1answer
595 views

Multisite on Windows with wildcard subdomains

I want to create a local network on a Windows machine using subdomains. I do not want to edit the hosts file for each new subdomain. But Windows does not support wildcard subdomains, and the Codex ...
4
votes
2answers
217 views

Wildcard subdomain for the same site

Is there any way to make all requests to any subdomain load the same Wordpress website e.g. user1.example.com, user2.example.com and user3.example.com all load the same website, but with the links ...
6
votes
1answer
160 views

Can a multisite's blogs be accessible from two different sub-domains?

Quick Background: We have a single WordPress instance, with Multisite enabled, hosting three separate blogs. (blog.example.com/blog1, blog.example.com/blog2, blog.example.com/blog3). This multisite ...
0
votes
0answers
152 views

Wordpress multi-site for subdomains and different domains with one database?

I'm working onf a wordpress that has lots of posts. They're not in any language (they are either just images or addresses) but I want to make my site available in other languages (for wordpress texts) ...
1
vote
2answers
76 views

WordPress Multisite Question

I want to add a subdomain to all my WordPress sites in a WP MU. For example, I have: example.com. When adding a new site to be: demo.example.com/newsite1 I don't want to create a new user or ...
0
votes
2answers
117 views

WPMU Development Environment

This is my first time playing with WPMU, I'm trying to move an entire WPMU site into a subdomain of itself for a development environment. The site itself is using subdomains so I'm having a bit of ...
0
votes
2answers
272 views

Multisite - 404 when accessing sub-sites

Setting up a multisite on a blog which root url is dev.domain.com, using subdomains. So, for example, a subsites address : site1.dev.domain.com Everything works fine as long as i stay on the main ...
2
votes
1answer
246 views

How does wordpress multisite manage subdomains?

I have a Wordpress multisite installed, and would like to understand how the subdomains actually are managed, ie how does my wordpress multisite knows where to find the files/data when a browser ...
0
votes
2answers
68 views

turn single domain off

I am running WordPress 3.3.2 with multi site in sub-domain mode. I want to add a new sub-domain but have it be "offline" until I finish working on it. Is there an easy way to do this? I know that if ...
1
vote
2answers
975 views

WP Multisite development with Mamp Pro and wildcard subdomains, not really working for me

I´m trying to set up a local development environment for me to work on a Wordpress multisite that I´m building. I use Mamp Pro with default ports (Apache: 80, MySQL: 3306), and I also added a new host ...
5
votes
1answer
208 views

Create multiple subdomains for multi-site from a database

I want to create multiple subdomains for users. I know how to create multiple subdomains manually using creating network. But, i have so many users, I can't create those subdomains manually one by ...
0
votes
3answers
93 views

Creating a subdomain network in a subdomain

I've installed Wordpress on subdomain.domain.com. I've enabled the Wordpress Network on this installation, choosing a subdomain install. I've created a wildcard subdomain in cpanel, which is ...
1
vote
2answers
74 views

How to show only blog-domain instead of the whole permalink in the loop

I wanna show the blog URL instead of the whole post URL in my loop. The reason is that I use Wordpress multiblog with sitewide tags, so on my front-page of the main blog I'm showing the 10 last ...
0
votes
1answer
199 views

In a subdomain network, what .htaccess settings can I use to have WP ignore requests to one subdomain?

I have a subdomain network installed at, say http://example.com. I need to have my webmail running at http://webmail.example.com. When I go to this domain it redirects to a page for creating a new ...
0
votes
2answers
1k views

Cannot access wp-admin on subdomain account of Wordpress 3.2.1 [closed]

I have an account with one.com and have recently installed Wordpress 3.2.1. I have set up two sub-domain blogs which I could not access. I have contacted one.com and was given the following htaccess ...
0
votes
2answers
645 views

How to query blogs posts of WordPress sub domain?

I am using WordPress 3.2.1 multi-user. I need to show posts from a specific sub domain in my home page, for example: http://mysite.com/sub-blog. I need to show posts from sub-blog in my home page. Is ...
0
votes
1answer
694 views

Multisite installation combining subdomains and subdirectories

I need to create a complex WordPress-powered set up, which I would like to run from a single code base. My setup is complicated by a number of factors. First of all I already have software running ...
2
votes
1answer
264 views

How to create Sub Sub domain Multi User blogs?

Hi to all I would like to create a big Wordpress network with this structure: sitename.com (Main website) cat1.sitename.com (sub website) cat11.cat1.sitename.com (sub-sub website) ...
1
vote
1answer
480 views

On WordPress Network(multisite), Sub Blogs in Subdirectories or Subdomains? What's better?

Can anyone explain why one is better than the other, and in what circumstances? Things I'm considering: SEO consequences (if any), scaling issues (if any) and anything else I'm not thinking about. ...
1
vote
1answer
756 views

“Preview Changes” button doesn't show changes for previously published posts/pages

When go in and make some changes to an article and click the "Preview Changes" button (without having first saved anything), another window/tab opens, but the article shown is the last saved version. ...
0
votes
1answer
180 views

Migrating wordpress multisite and domain mapping plugin

I have a WordPress Multisite installation (with sub-domains). Plus I use WordPress MU Domain Mapping to have separate domain name for each subsite. Now, I want to migrate all this to a new server (NO ...
1
vote
1answer
126 views

Unable to apply theme to WordPress Network Site install

I'm using media temple with a fresh install of WordPress in network mode. With subdomains off. define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false ); I've followed Media Temple's *wildcard configuration (not that I ...
0
votes
3answers
921 views

Wordpress multisite giving a 404 on all new pages created [closed]

I am using multisite on wordpress using subdomains on my local. I had created a page for one of the sites [site1.local.loc] with the link [site1.local.loc/page1 ; I entered this in the page creation ...
0
votes
1answer
58 views

Not being allowed to use some terms in Add New Site in Wordpress

The following words are reserved for use by WordPress functions and cannot be used as blog names: page, comments, blog, files, feed This is the error message that I'm getting. I wanted to use /blog ...
2
votes
3answers
2k views

Benefits or Problems for using Sub-Directory vs Sub-Domain install of WP Network

Reading through the documentation you have the ability to setup a WP Network in two ways, Sub-Domains and Sub-Directories. The only explanation they give you is Sub-directory sites It works with ...
1
vote
0answers
246 views

How can we set up a solid test site with Network mode (sub-domains) enabled? [closed]

Update: I came by a reasonable alternative to the approach explained below, instead using a GIT repo and a WordPress Multisite plugin: Deploymint: a staging and deployment system for WordPress. ...
0
votes
1answer
468 views

Multisite - getting a 404 for additional site created using subdomain install

I created an additional site on my multisite subdomain installation. Now when I try to visit the new site or its wp-admin, I get a 404 error. My wordpress instance is hosted on AWS Checked the ...
0
votes
3answers
965 views

Wordpress MU subdomain vhost

Ok so i have my mu setup with subdomains and need a subdomian to point to a different path. My issue is when i add the vhost file it loads before wordpress and loads it path for everything that does ...
1
vote
2answers
228 views

How do I maintain static directories on multisite subdomains?

I'm trying to migrate from multiple subdomain blogs to WP multisite. The one stumbling block is that I'm pretty sure the static files and directories on my subdomains will not be found; each of my ...
4
votes
2answers
430 views

WordPress Multisite. Can domain be used instead of subdomain?

i am new to multisite. It is a simple question. I know WordPress multisite can be setup for subdomains. Is it possible to use domains along with subdomains? I have searched google but have not had ...
1
vote
1answer
607 views

Change multi-site installation from sub-domains to sub-directories

I've searched everywhere but I don't seem to find a solution for this. I have a WP installation that is using sub-domains and doesn't have yet any other sites besides the main site. What I want to ...
2
votes
1answer
567 views

How can I have multiple URLs pointing to single WordPress installation?

Here's my scenario: I have three specific jobs sites: LAMPJobsLA.com, MobileJobsLA.com, SocialMediaJobsLA.com I'd like to run them under on "master site": TechJobsLA.com but keep the URLs intact ...
3
votes
3answers
917 views

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", ... ...