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Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Disabling Multisite FearsVery rarely happens. Themes source files are shared, but options and CSS can be per-site.
It only has to happen once for it to be too many times. I prefer inefficient and foolproof to clever with disaster potential. As discussed earlier there are also characteristics to multisite I don’t like.What did you do to pull that off? O.O Multisite doesn’t do that at all.
Since you asked:
I did a backup of the entire site, using a utility from Softaculous to create a .tar.gz file in one case and a WP back up to create a .zip in the other.I unzipped the tar.gz file into a sub domain in the main site and the zip file to install in an entirely different domain altogether. FWIW: Both on the same host.
In the case of the sub domain installation, it simply picked up the MySQL dbase from the host and used it. At first, I mistakenly thought I had made a new site and made changes which then showed up in the original site.
In the case of the new domain, the site did not display at first, nor was the Dashboard available, although trying to log into it did present an error message about the database not being correctly configured.
After considerable reconfiguring of the dbase, and wp-config.php, I managed to create a situation in which logging into this site simply transfers me to to the original site.
test.understandingcomputers.caI keep coming back to my solution, which is perhaps an old way of thinking, but it seems to me would work admirably. I want to install completely independent versions of the exact same site in the different locations and then alter them individually.
I imagine the equivalent of a static site on different servers. At the moment of installation, they would all be the same but changes to any one site would not affect the others.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Disabling Multisite FearsThanks again Mike
We’re a small, progressive online journal. The site above is the main site but we wish to have about five others.
Ideally, all journals will have parallel visual elements, colors, menus, layouts. But completely different content. No posts, pages, menus or categories in common.
One of them must have all elements in French.
I am (far) less afraid of having to duplicate efforts to achieve this than I am of having changes made to one site affect the others.
The goal is to have volunteers and part time staff look after content while I, or someone like me, keeps them all running.
My experiments thus far have produced three sites in three separate places: two domains and one sub-domain, all of which are actually the same site. They share a common dashboard and changes to one affect the other two. Logging into any of them sends you to the main site.
This is the polar opposite of my intent.
My thought was that I would clone the original site to a new location, delete everything extraneous, and start over.
I spent a lot of time figuring out how to copy over the dbase. But the result was as described above, the same site in multiple locations.
I hope this helps.
Thanks again.
DylanHow did you access the css file? I cannot find it? Where is it, please.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Cool Video Gallery – Plays behind content in IE8, ok IOSI wish I was being helpful but I just encountered this myself. Except mine doesn’t play at all.
It was fine in IE6 and as you note, no problem in all other Windows browsers.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Disabling Multisite FearsThanks Mike, you continue to be my personal angel. I will try not to abuse the privilege.
There’s a free ebook on the link you posted. I haven’t been through it yet but it looks promising.
I edited wp-config.php. I haven’t touched .htaccess
Things are back to normal without harm.I will now check out New Blogs Defaults.
FWIW, I tried the Multisite because of a previous recommendation to use Site Duplicator to achieve my goal. It, in turn, required that I set up the network.
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Same content different dbasePS, last time I enabled multi site, I created considerable havoc when I deactivated and reactivated my plug ins. Is there any avoiding this?
Forum: Networking WordPress
In reply to: Same content different dbaseThank you for this.
I knew that somewhere a mind much more versed than my own had developed a solution. I am thrilled to have attracted the attention of a mod.
I have installed the plugin. The next challenge, apparently, is to become a superuser.
In my quest to separate the two sites, I carefully removed all traces of multisite installation. Logic would suggest that I must go back and enable multisite if I am to become a superuser.
I will try this, now. Thanks again.