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 subdirectory URL, and exported the content from the original standalone site, then imported that content into the subdirectory MU site. I then removed the original standalone … Read more
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 & 2. But only blog 1 works. Also, I want to pull out another category from blog … Read more
Firstly, I’ve read a number of posts on this process. However, for various reasons, the process remains difficult to implement or troubleshoot for lack of even abstracted examples, or maybe too abstracted. And there’s a few “can not do” posts, nearly always followed up by “with 3.5, you now can” caveats, so whether one can … Read more
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 would be added at the ‘network blog’ level and synced to the other blogs. What’s the best way … Read more
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 http://dev.domain.com/wp-signup.php?new=dev.domain.com It sounds like one of the database values must be incorrect and WordPress is forwarding me here because of it. … Read more
Let’s say you have a plugin which need to flush rewrite rules. You do it all properly with activation hook and adding flush late, so everything is smooth and compatible. And then one fine day someone tries to run it on multisite. Instead of a simple scenarios like: WordPress site is created Plugin is installed … Read more
I’m in the process of setting up a (potentially) large multisite network, and I’m looking to make it as easy as possible now to add and configure sites when needed. I’m currently at the phase where I’m dealing with plugins. With multisite I am aware of several different ways you can activate plugins Put the … Read more
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 that query with another? Basically if i do this: $number1 = new WP_Query($multisitequery); Can i merge it with: … Read more
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 to send tons of email notifications and do other stuff (maybe remote SMTP server connection is slow, … Read more
I’m working on a plugin that will be installed in a multisite instance. How do I create a single settings page that is visible at the “Network admin” level only – most of the guides i’ve seen relate to a standard blog level plugin. Any links to information would be useful, otherwise I’ll just end … Read more
