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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Home page links to stats in dashboard.I’ve been having this problem too, since I set up my new blog a few weeks ago (my old one just defaulted to the post page as the front page). I just did a quick test, and discovered in my case, the stats for “home page” are actually the stats for the blog posts page. The stats for “home” are for the splash page.
My splash page is called “home” and my posts page is called “blog,” so I’m still baffled as to where the “home page” comes from, but I just recorded my stats for the day on each page, then logged out and visited each page and refreshed them several times (counting how many times, of course) and went back and the new stats were just what I expected.
After I upgraded to 3.1, my “home page” link on the stats feed started linking to the splash page instead of wordpress.com, which is what was really confusing. Both the “home” and “homepage” links took me to the splash page, but now I know the stats numbers for “home page” refer to my page called “blog.” (which has never shown up in the stats as “blog”)
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: WP3.0 Multi-site fundamentalsI just set this up through GoDaddy as well. I had a single install of WP 2.9.2 for my blog, and when I upgraded to 3.0, i enabled the multisite so that I could add a blog for my wife and my cousin without paying for anymore hosting space or stuff (I am on the economy hosting package with GoDaddy).
My DNS record for my primary domain already had a wildcard setup. Because I couldn’t access Apache, I had to set up my WP multisite with blog directories, not subdomains (i.e., instead of mywifesblog.myblog.com I had myblog.com/mywifesblog) At first this seemed bad, but with the domain mapping plugin, I was able to map my wife’s new domain through the wordpress install so you never see the directory structure.
On the server side, with GoDaddy, I did nothing with my primary domain (because it already had the wildcard A record). For my domains to be mapped, I simply exported the DNS settings from my primary domain and imported them to the domains to be mapped, so that they pointed to the same (shared) IP address, nameservers, etc. Everything else was taken care of in WordPress.
I’m totally in uncharted waters with this myself, so I was pretty amazed that I could even get it to work. I have noticed my blog has slown down significantly though. Maybe that won’t be a problem with you. Keep us posted!
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Performance problems using multisite on 3.0Any look with trouble shooting?
I’ve experienced the same problem. I knew I shouldn’t have upgraded to 3.0, as I was happy with my theme (which wouldn’t benefit from any of 3.0’s new features) and you know, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
I decided to upgrade to 3.0 so that I can enable the multisite functionality and create a second blog for my wife, and then a third one for my cousin. Both of my secondary blogs run fine (http://shorthandlove.com and http://galleryd.net/landscaping) but my primary blog (http://galleryd.net) and my admin panel have slowed to a crawl. I’ve done all the basic TS steps, but to no avail.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Multisite subdomains without wildcards on GoDaddy: possible?Sweet. I got it to work. My original site is galleryd.net , my secondary site is shorthandlove.com .
With godaddy’s economy hosting package, I was able to enable multisite functionality using directories, then install the plugin for domain mapping to give full top-level domain functionality to my wife’s site. All I had to do on the server end was change the A listing for her domain to match the IP of the primary domain. WordPress handled the rest.
Awesome!
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Multisite subdomains without wildcards on GoDaddy: possible?I think I’ve got it straight now. So, my hosting package doesn’t allow me access to the Apache settings, so I have to do new sites through directories; I believe the reason I couldn’t get my directories to work properly at first was because while I changed the value of “(SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false);” to enable directories, my .htaccess file was not properly configured for directories, as the initial code WP gave me to paste into it was for subdomains; whenever I changed the settings to directories, no matter how I tried to reset my install, WP would never give me a new set of code to add to me .htaccess file; that is, I could never again access the TOOLS —> NETWORK menu — it disappeared after I first enabled the MultiSite functionality. I copied a set of .htaccess from another blog I found and I was able to access all dashboards correctly using the directories model. The only thing is, on my original site, the “/blog/” directory does not appear in my posts, tag or categories URLs. This is fine, I actually prefer it this way as it’s more consistent (because even when the “/blog/” was inserted, it didn’t insert itself in pages). Will these be a problem at all? I figure so long as I don’t have a post named after a secondary site, I should be fine.
Is it possible to still map a top level domain to a new site, using the directories setup? Right now the domain for my second site, http://shorthandlove.com, just redirects.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Multisite subdomains without wildcards on GoDaddy: possible?I’ve tried a couple different ways with the multisite. I’m also hosted on godaddy with an economy package. My main URL is http://galleryd.net.
Initially, I did the install with the option for subdomains; it inserted the “/blog/” into all of my post URLs, my tag pages, search results and categories. At first, this caused all of the generated links in my blog to fail (i.e., click a category or tag link, or a title permalink from the main page, and you get a 404) but it set itself up right. Although I had selected subdomains, it went ahead and installed with folders. This was fine, except when I tried to to go to the admin or login panel on the new site “http://galleryd.net/shorthandlove/wp-admin” it gives me a 404. If I change my WP-CONFIG to “define( ‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, true );” then I get a permission denied error when I try to visit http://shorthandlove.galleryd.net.
So, when using folders, I can’t access the dashboard of the secondary sites; When using subdomains, I can’t access the secondary sites at all.
My DNS settings (also on godaddy) had a wildcard option to begin with, but I’m lost when the WP Codex talks about editing Apache settings.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Visual Editor styles corrupt after WP3I got it back, for the most part. When I upgraded, I took the opportunity to do a little bit of streamlining in my theme files. (I have been very happy with my Freshy 2 layout and don’t anticipate getting a new theme anytime soon, but the temptation to upgrade anyways overtook me.) I created the “editor-style.css” file and deleted several page templates and custom style sheets that I have never used. One of them was “content.css”, which is apparently what Freshy 2, via the functions.php, had been setup to import styles into the TinyMCE editor for years; for whatever reason, my styles had never shown up in the editor until I upgraded to WP 3; I assumed they were automatically coming from my newly created “editor-style.css” sheet, but they had been imported from the “content.css”, which I have sense restored and tweaked.
Additionally, I did have to turn “Import Styles” off on the Advancted TINY MCE plugin; that is what had been dragging the background into the editor, which it had not done with WP 2.9.2 (oddly enough.)
As a side note, the new interface and menu design system for WP 3 is great, but I have realized that most of the big new features were functions that had already been included in my Freshy 2 theme: custom backgrounds, custom menu management, flexible widget areas, etc. Oh well…the upgrade bug bites and I lose my time creating content to learn a little more code.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Link WordPress.org to WordPress.comJust the kind of thing I’ve been looking to do.
Any luck?