Tips and tricks by Brian Shim for web developers, bloggers, and WordPress users
Someone described WordPress Multisite as the “bastard child” of WordPress, and I think that is an accurate description. I’ve burned many hours dealing with the quirks of Multisite, and this is one of them. If you look at Local WP’s official docs on how to migrate a Multisite to local, you’ll see the painful instructions … Read more
I’ve used MAMP to create local WordPress sites for years. But, I had a hell of a time trying to get it to work with a WordPress Multisite. After a whole day of research, I finally got it to work though! If you want a quick summary of the key points, here are the keys … Read more
WordPress Multisite lets you create multiple WordPress websites that all use the same set of themes and plugins. It might appear to be a great way to make maintaining multiple sites more efficient, as you can update the WordPress core, themes, and plugins once, and they are updated for all sites. But in practice, the … Read more
I had a situation where I needed to create a WordPress Multisite network of sites with each site having completely unique domain names. I found everything I needed by Googling around and I got it to work, but I wanted to document it for later use because there are some “gotchas”. Here’s the procedure. Note, my … Read more