Ok people, what gives? From what I can see I have done everything correctly. I network enable a theme, go to the subsite, go to themes but still nothing. The only way i can get the theme to show up for a sub site is to move the theme directory into the subsite theme directory…Anyone??
So I created another site…..and get a 404 error. As I mentioned previously when I created my first sub site I manually created the folder for the subsite and copied in the wordpress folders (ie for themes etc.) But should I have done this at all?
No! What gives? You have made a mess of things.
You said “and copied in all the files from the root….seems legitimate, got me working.”
There is a problem. And you will be undoing all the copying of files.
Have a read here first: http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
Sounds like you have NOT created a network. So you have some backtracking to do to get the Newtork dashboard up and running on site first.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Multisite
http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Network
When you indeed have created the initial network site, you then create your first subsite/blog by visiting the wp-signup.php in your web browser. There will be no copying or uploading files to get blog 2 running. The first site is “shared” with with all signup subsite blogs virtually. (It Network dahboard is up and running, then a visit to Network Sites menu will create infinite new blogs, too. And only the database will increase in size – not the file directory)
Cobbling together copied and pasted files and folders is NOT how to add a site to a network. Additional blogs in a network are evident in the database – not in the file directories. No files are duplicated when adding another blog, but the Network activated site creates its own blogs – no other way to do a network, legitimately.
(A WordPress export file can be imported later into any existing blog on your network, but the blog must exist legitimately within Network Sites menu before importing the xml file.)
Cheers Dave, you can read that stuff til you’re blue in the face and it won’t help. The clever folk at WordPress figure enough dummies like me have stubbed there toes on the the old rewrite module not being turned on in apache rthat they would add a little message atop the final steps where you copy out the config stuff. They should put flashing neon signs around that stuff cause I can tell you plenty have lost the plot going by what articles I can find on similar issues although the solution never seems to be expressed clearly…lucky for me I have a philosophy to throw things out and start again when I’ve totally ballsed it up:-)
