Michael Bishop
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Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Domain Mapping FailureYou may be misunderstanding the instructions. Your main install should be at some IP address, ie 123.123.123.123. You would then add an A Record to the DNS records for extradomain to the 123 IP address. This may be done in WHM or with your domain registrar depending on how you set it up.
You then would add extradomain via the domain mapping menu to the site in your network.
You also need to make sure you have your wildcard DNS setup. Is the site working without the mapping? ie, if your main network is at example.com, and the site you want to map is at foo.example.com, does that work?
In this example, you would map extradomain to foo.example.com, and extradomain’s DNS records is where you add the A record.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Need an XML Sitemap Plugin for WP3.0 with Domain MappingIf you are installing a plugin in the mu folder, it won’t show on the regular plugin page, it will however appear in the must use section. I tested the XML sitemap feed plugin last night and it worked smashingly with 3.0 and multi-site.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Need an XML Sitemap Plugin for WP3.0 with Domain MappingTo clarify, I was referring to the sitemap for wpmuwordpress-mu plugin, not the xml sitemap feed which I overlooked when it was mentioned in this thread. Certainly will check it out.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Image upload issuedid you create a blogs.dir in wp-content?
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Multisite Plugin Question – Can I suppress some?@petlvr, glad that made some sense! I’m sure there are some plugins you wouldn’t want to automatically have active network wide (vs must use), so sure, a page listing them could work.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: how to select a theme for multisites different from main siteJust a quick note about selecting themes for specific sites. You can activate a theme site wide using /wp-admin/ms-themes.php (for instance if you want any user to have a choice of themes). Then as already pointed out, from the admin of each site /wp-admin/themes.php, choose a theme.
You can also individually activate a theme for a site via Super Admin-> Sites (wp-admin/ms-sites.php), and edit the the site. In the right column a section Site Themes is available showing all of the themes in wp-content/themes. You can check which themes you want for that specific site (if for instance you have a custom theme for a specific site and don’t want any other site to have ability to use it).
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: New Sites not showing upMaybe I’m not following. If you set up a multi-site install at example.com, and want to have sites at example2.example.com, example3.example.com appear at example2.com, example3.com, respectively, then yes, you need to use the mapping plugin. You can create the subsites with what ever name you want, could be foo.example.com which maps to example2.com, or for your own benefit, keep example2.example.com to keep things straight.
The emphasis is that you must create the subsites within the network, then do your add-on domains/domain mapping, DNS wildcards.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Multisite Plugin Question – Can I suppress some?Well, if you want mu plugins that run in the background, and plugins that are simply network wide activated, you can suppress the plugins menu from non super admins under Super Admin->Options->Menu Settings->enable administration menus->plugins (uncheck).
That way, you can individually activate plugins on a site by site basis with the Super Admin(s). Site Admins and other users do not see the option to activate/update/etc. They only see active plugin options, usually under settings, or their own top level menu. This doesn’t allow them to activate individual plugins, you would have to do that as the Super Admin, but does give you more granular control.
At least that’s how I manage it…
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: New Sites not showing uphttp://wordpress.org/support/topic/416651?replies=2#post-1574166 you probably need to add that plugin and follow it’s instructions. Multi-site by itself won’t allow for different domain names.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Confer domain name upon multisiteshttp://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/ will allow you to have example2.com mapped to your /site2 installation.
The plugin doesn’t require any additional DNS or apache config changes, but you will need to either set a CNAME record or A record for the example2.com domain
If you have a cPanel installation with WHM, then you can restart Apache from within that, if you have some other type of control panel, there’s still possibly an option to restart Apache.
If you are doing this from shell, then something like
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart, but I’d recommend getting a lot more familiar with shell before tackling that.Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Create Multi Site with common index/first page?Try http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/
Within the template of the base blog you can then use custom queries by tag to filter the content.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Need an XML Sitemap Plugin for WP3.0 with Domain MappingI never had good luck with that sitemap for WPMU plugin, and I doubt it’s compatible with 3.0, hasn’t been updated for 2.9…
There is a paid sitemap plugin for WPMU, but is less than ideal, only maps X recent posts. If someone was looking for a project, this would be a great one to tackle.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: embed-rss v1.4 Broken Code – Here’s a fixI’d like to point out that 1.4.1 is broken in 2.9.2. Using
wp_enqueue_style( 'cets-jquery-ui', plugins_url('/embed-rss/lib/jquery-ui/cets-jquery-ui.css'), array(), $this->version, 'screen' );fixes the problem. I’m guessing adding the, array()on line 89 did the trick.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Clean up category IDs?I was actually referring to the fact that you can now have template files for categories using the slug instead of just the ID.