Common WordPress Multisite Problems and Solutions

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1. PhDeviate (1 comments.) says:

   8/19/2010 at 9:12 am

   I have so saved this page for when I run into these problems! It seems likely I will. Thank you!
2. Timothy (1 comments.) says:

   8/19/2010 at 12:03 pm

   Thank you for this. I started a vegan raw food blog and permalinks were an issue for me. Thanks again!
3. Iva (1 comments.) says:

   8/19/2010 at 5:51 pm

   Andrea is a pilar of a community that other communities can only dream of. She helped me out numerous times, most recently last night and we exchanged a bunch of tweets afterwards.

   As a community owner myself, I know how important it is to be accessible, pleasant, non-snobbish and like everybody else, just providing knowledge they don’t already have. So, all props to her.

   Also, another thing that should be added: if one’s ignoring subdomains that existed before WordPress, the order of rules in the .htaccess file MATTERS A LOT. The ignored subdomains must come before anything else.
4. Joe Gardiner (1 comments.) says:

   8/27/2010 at 8:10 am

   I think setting up a WordPress network (multi-site) can actually be really challenging for a WordPress beginner, but it is a function that lot’s of people found difficult.

   We certainly found a rise in support issues surrounding WordPress multi-site as it became common knowledge as a feature of 3.0.

   We put together an extensive guide you might find useful!

   http://catn.com/2010/08/09/ena.....ulti-site/
5. Ryan Poole says:

   10/10/2012 at 9:40 pm

   I have set up several multipress sites

   I follow the directions closely

   I get them installed fine.

   But when I add new sites they do not show up in the dashboard.

   When I click on sites it only shows the 1 main site and NONE of the child sites.

   HELP
6. wanderingonion says:

   3/29/2013 at 5:56 pm

   I was delegated our site management and am new to WordPress. The previous person was in the process of transitioning from managing one site to two sites. He upgraded WordPress to 3.5 and moved the first site contents over. It looks like he installed the Network Admin (Multisite) tool and attempted to add a second site using the Network Admin tool. The name and details of the site shows up in the Network Admin tool but the dashboard is not working.

   We are hosting on our own server. The original website address was http://www.example.com. The 2nd website is http://www.site2.example.com.

   It looks like he attempted to setup a subdirectory for the sites. The file path on the server looks like this c:\path1\path2\path3\(this is where the wp-content and all files are).

   When I login to the network tool, I can see that he added both sites. He just put their web address in for both. The first site listed is the original site (www.example.com) and the dashboard is accessible and this site is accessed just fine.

   The second site’s (www.site2.example.com) dashboard does not work. You can see it in the Network Admin Panel but WordPress just does not know where to look. No path is specified.

   I checked the wp-content.php file and multisite is true and subdomain is false. There was no htaccess file and there is an index.php file. When I tried to change the index file per WordPress instructions, the original site (www.example.com) went down. When I tried to specify a path for http://www.site2.example.com, the dashboard was the actual website of http://www.example.com.

   Not sure where to start here. Any helpers?

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