Questions tagged [multisite]
Running multiple sites with one installation and one central management. Also known as network and WPMU.
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How To Add Custom Form Fields To The User Profile Page?
The user profile page has the following fields:
Username
First Name
Last Name
Nickname
Display name
Contact Info
E-mail
Website
AIM
Yahoo IM
Jabber / Google Talk
How can more fields be added to ...
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restore_current_blog() vs switch_to_blog()
After every instance of switch_to_blog() you should call restore_current_blog() to restore the current (actually, previous) blog.
But if you're looping through two or more blogs and calling ...
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Can i merge 2 new WP_Query($variable) 's?
I am running a multisite network and i have setup a sql query that uses swith_to_blog(); and queries the posts.
Is there a way that i can declare the query inside a new WP_Query and actually merge ...
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What is the correct way to map multiple domains in a WordPress 4.1 multisite install?
I'm aware of this question and others but have not found a definitive answer to how a domain should be set up with multisite so that www and non-www variants behave correctly. I believe I have ...
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WordPress Multisite - global categories
Setting up a WP multisite instance - the client has an existing ontology / set of categories that they want to classify all content across the set of blogs. Also the desire is that any new categories ...
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Get posts from sites in Multisite?
I'm trying to pull multiple sites posts. For example, I can pull out a single site
posts by a category and total posts 10.
But I'm trying to pull out both posts from two separate Multisite blogs 1 &...
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Remove the blog slug from Wordpress Multisite root node
I have been looking at whether it is possible to remove blog/ from the post & category URLs on the root node in a multisite setup.
I have found the multisite sites settings and removed the blog/ ...
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Are nested subdomains possible with a subdomain multisite?
I currently have a multisite using sub domains setup, which works well so far:
example.com (main site)
site1.example.com
site2.example.com
site3.example.com
The question now is whether it's ...
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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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How to Structure Wordpress for an Organization and its Departments?
I want to make a wordpress site for an organization (main) that has many departments. The requirements are
There is only one website ( or maybe same theme for the main site and its department site)
...
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How do I create a custom role capability?
I wish to create a custom capability for accessing the interface of my plugin.
Should the plugin manage adding this capability to all the administrator accounts on activation?
If so: Does WordPress ...
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Cookies in multisite where network sites have their own domain name
I decided to integrate several stand alone Wordpress websites into a single multisite installation.
I created a brand new multisite install with subdirectories, created a MU network site with ...
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How to add Custom Blog Options to new blog setup form?
Seems like a simple enough requirement, but I'm struggling:
I want to add an option field to the "Add New Site".
A simple text option is fine. How do I do this?
I need to save this custom ...
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1answer
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Templates for Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies
I am working on a custom theme for a network of sites that are deployed under a WordPress MultiSite installation.
Within these theme I create 4 custom post types that have two taxonomies added to all ...
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5answers
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Convert a Multisite WordPress install into a Single site
Given a WordPress Multisite network, with a main blog, and assuming all content has been moved on to that blog, how would one collapse the network back down into a standard WordPress non-network non-...
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Site Redirecting to wp-signup.php
I migrated content from our production server to our dev server in an attempt to sync all environments. I used the All-In-One WP Migration plugin.
Now, when I access dev.domain.com I am forwarded to ...
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What are options are there to implement a multi language site
What is the best way to have multiple languages on a site?
I was thinking of using WP3.0 and then having each language of the site being a seperate blog in a sub directory. I.E.
example.com
...
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create /blog subsite on WordPress multisite
I have a 3.0.1 site with MULTISITE enabled and would like one of the sites to live at /blog, but when I try to create a new site with that path, I get this error:
The following words are reserved for ...
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Password Reset for Users on a Multisite Subsite
I have a multisite network. I want my users to be able to reset their passwords while staying within their subsites. So for example clicking the "lost your password?" link keeps them within their ...
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Inherit plugin settings to new site in Multisite
I use the Breadcrumb NavXT plugin for a WP Multisite. I activated the plugin for all sites so I can use it throughout my network.
My problem is that every time I add a new site I have to change the ...
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How would I use pre_get_posts to query another site for posts in my multisite network?
I have a multisite network of sites which should display blog content from each other if the blog post has a tag with the site name.
To gather all posts within the network I use the SWT (Sitewide ...
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1answer
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How to set up wordpress domain mapping on MAMP Pro
I am trying to set up a wordpress multisite with MAMP Pro that will allow me to have two different domains (one domain for each language):
dev.domainenglish.com
dev.domainfrench.com
I have already set ...
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2answers
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How can I display all Multisite blogs where this user is administrator?
Given the user ID, how can I display all the blogs where this user is administrator?
I tried:
<?php
$user_id = 2;
$user_blogs = get_blogs_of_user( $user_id );
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($...
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1answer
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Add New Sub Site from the WordPress back end then in sub site options table option_value must be with https
I installed multi site setup for the domain https://uninfo.org but when i add new sub site from the back end it is creating but in sub site WP-options table it created with HTTP rather then https ...
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Can I run a second wordpress site as a subdomain without using multisite?
I have an two wordpress sites that I would like to host on the same domain. One is already up and running, the other is sitting in waiting.
Can I get the second as a subdomain, or simple within a ...
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share login/logout sessions across two installs?
I'm having some issues sharing the user sessions across two installs.
(a) site on http://stolenmx.com
(b) site on http://arcade.stolenmx.com
I have installed B in the same database as A and I have ...
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Multiple Domains and Subdomains Using Multisite Installation
I have the following domains/subdomains. They are all related to each other, yet they must be on different domains/subdomains
example.com
www.example.com (redirects to example.com)
sub1.example.com
...
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1answer
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Filters 'request' and 'parse_query' not firing in sites.php nor link-manager.php
I'm trying to make sortable columns in Sites and Links listings admin pages.
/wp-admin/network/sites.php and /wp-admin/link-manager.php
The problem is the following filters are not firing up in ...
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3answers
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How to use Wordpress Multisite With Different Domain Names?
I want to work with WordPress multisite, but I want to be able to use my own names. For example my main site is called example.com. If I want to add a new site to my multisite network it's gonna be ...
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Running WP Cron on multisite the right way
I have WordPress Multisite with several sites. I set up DISABLE_WP_CRON to true in my wp-config.php.
If we set up cron task with wget or curl we have 30 sec rule to execute PHP script. It's so small ...
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Domain mapping (without plugin) in 4.5.x multisite?
Using WP 4.5.2
Even the developer of the WordPress.org plugin for domain mapping in a multisite network says to not use the plugin any more -- since core WP now includes the same functionality.
Does ...
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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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Why are my roles not visible in a Multi-site/Network?
My network is showing roles in some sites and not in others.
For some reason that I can't explain, when I add a new user, I have no roles to choose from in the drop down box of a sub-site in my ...
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DB connection error after copying a WordPress Multisite instance to a second location
Here's my setup. I have a Multisite instance running at http://example.com, and I want to do development and staging. Moving an existing Multisite instance of WP onto localhost is a nightmare, so I'm ...
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Customizing wp-activate.php
Does anyone know how I can customise wp-activate.php?
It wraps the content in <div id="content" class="widecolumn">, however in my theme the main wrapper is <div id="main">
Presumably, I ...
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wordpress multisite, how to keep user on subdomain throughout registration process?
I am running wp subdomain multisite in combination with domain mapping. This means I can create a new subdomain site xyz.site.com and map the domain name 'xyz.com' to that site.
The problem I have is ...
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How to disable Multisite sign-up page?
If we try to access a non-existant Multisite site, e.g., http://site1.example.com or http://example.com/site1/, we are redirected to http://example.com/wp-signup.php?new=site1.
How to block this and ...
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Nginx rules for subdomain multisite install (Bedrock)
I'm trying to move an existing Bedrock based multisite instance to nginx and am having difficulty getting a set of nginx rules to mimic the original .htaccess. Bedrock places the crux of the files in ...
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How to add field for new site-wide option on Network Settings screen?
I'm working on a plugin, and part of it involves setting an option value that applies to all sites in a WordPress network. I know about the add_site_option and get_site_option functions that let you ...
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How to do I get a list of active plugins on my wordpress blog programmatically?
I have 2 blogs, one which is multisite and one which isn't. I want to get a list of plugins active on both the blogs so I can compare them.
On the multisite blog, I want to list the plugins which are ...
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How to use alias domain for multisite installation?
Is it possible to use alias-domain for multisite installation? I have tried domain-mapping plugin and Multi Domains plugin for WordPress, but this does not solve this problem.
Example:
I have ...
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WP Multisite: Adding pages on blog creation by default
I’d like to have a page added by default when a new site is created with WP Multisite.
So I have my function that creates two pages:
function my_default_pages() {
$default_pages = array('Impress'...
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Changing Multisite themes on mass
I want to start a new theme for my Multsite install instead of simply modifying the current theme. The problem is I have a lot of sites running on Multsite so it would be a little painful to change ...
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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 wp-...
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Restrict Admin Capabilities in MultiSite
update_core
update_plugins
update_themes
install_plugins
install_themes
delete_themes
edit_plugins
edit_themes
Hi, I want to restrict those capabilities to user_id = 1 so ...
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Infinite loop problem with the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plug-in
When I'm logged out, everything works fine. When I'm logged in, I'm unable to visit the front-end of my site.
My main page is actually located in a sub-folder of my multisite installation: http://...
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Error 101 after upgrading Wordpress
We have just updated to WordPress 3.1.3 by following the WP manual install tutorial. Note: This is a Network-enabled (multi-site) install.
After uploading the new files, we now get the following ...
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Shared upload folder in wordpress multisite
I have a wordpress multisite, where I would like all the images uploaded through the main site (mysite.com) to be accessible to sub1.mysite.com and sub2.mysite.com. All the images should be in one ...
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BuddyPress on Multisite [closed]
Does having BuddyPress installed on a Multisite setup mean that users in each of the different sites can interact or view the actions or content of users on other sites in the network?
