Comments on: How to Enable Multisite in WordPress

By: Kathy

Kathy — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:47:34 +0000

I followed your tutorial, but when trying to access the dashboard of my newly added site, I got the 404 (Page Not Found) Error page. Can you help me fix that?

Thanks.

By: Rebekah Apotre

Rebekah Apotre — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:00:58 +0000

thanks for the video! It’s one of the easier ones I found to help with the installation of MS.

I just did it and found it fairly simple!

thanks again,

By: Devin

Devin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:56:14 +0000

Menus and headers will have to be set on a per site basis unless you write some sort of automation script to set the options.

By: Lilia Lee

Lilia Lee — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:31:59 +0000

Thank you so much for this posts. It helped quite a bit in getting the multiple site created.
Unfortunately, the site I am supporting uses a custom-made theme that doesn’t seem to work on the secondary site I created. It is network enabled but the custom header and menu do not appear on the second site (I have a sub-directory install). oy vey!!!

By: Ty Disdier

Ty Disdier — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:11:46 +0000

Thank you so much worked on the first try

By: Agraj

Agraj — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:42:18 +0000

i’ve updated wp-config file but there is showing black in Network Admin menu, under tools..

What to do..?

By: Devin

Devin — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:41:37 +0000

It’s Helvetica Nueue, same font that Twenty Eleven uses.

By: ApniVideo

ApniVideo — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:27:44 +0000

nice plugin for the community, i’ll try to write an automation for domain mapping (SUNRISE) too, maybe will complete this plugin.

ps. what font do you use in this theme because text in posts looks ugly in linux? :P Try not to use “Lucida Grande”,Calibri and other new microsoft fonts, they look ugly on other operating systems (mobile phones for example)

By: Max

Max — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:16:35 +0000

Probably is your hosting company. Many of them do not like you running Multi-Site on Shared hosting — quite simply as it taxes their machines — and you can run way more domains than they may allow using MU Domain Mapper.

Hostgator are awesome and pretty much allow you to do anything, but will throttle you if you start to overload the web-server.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:13:53 +0000

MU Domain Mapping works with a 301 Redirect. If you are keen eyed and on a low connection you will see that as the server sends the redirect header, and then the browser requests the new URL.

There is really not much you can do to prevent that… On a fast connection and server it would be near instantaneous (provided the new domain name is already in the DNS cache).

By: Max

Max — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:12:00 +0000

And be careful if you have had the install for a long time (permalink problems) – codex does not recommend you do a switch if your site has been running for a long time.

Check http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network — specifically the bit titled “WordPress Settings Requirements”, where they say you cannot choose Sub-Directory install if your site has been running for more than a month (although they claim to be fixing this in later versions).

By: Max

Max — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:07:55 +0000

You need a new host… decent hosting is cheap (as little as $10 a month) so really no need to put up with that.