Multisite Network Sync Issue

  • I have installed a basic WP default installation, using the default theme and changed nothing on it.

    I network enabled it, applied the settings in the config.sys and htaccess, and set up the network to work as a sub-directory and not a sub-domain. I then created 2 virtual sites. These were created and everything looks great.

    However, I make a change to the master site (just some text in a title heading). I can see this change on the main page but not on the sub directory sites. I have had a look in the myPhp and cannot see this being applied to the sub sites; only showing once in the main domain _posts table.

    What can I do to trigger a sync?

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  • I can see this change on the main page but not on the sub directory sites.

    It’s called multisite — multiple websites. Every subsite is a full and independent WordPress site complete with its own theme, plugins, users and content. Updating one is not meant to update another.

    Maybe you don’t need multisite after all?

    Thread Starter nigelrs

    (@nigelrs)

    I have been informed that using the WP, then network set up, then creating the subsites (multi sites) is designed to sync all of the sub sites from a master site.

    This is needed as I am running a central master site for a health related service, but sub sites will be for niche markets and will want the same information, but presented differently with additional bonus features only found on that sub site.

    Also, the membership software will only work on a virtual multi site set up.

    I have been informed that using the WP, then network set up, then creating the subsites (multi sites) is designed to sync all of the sub sites from a master site.

    That information is false.

    From the official WordPress glossary:

    [Multisite] Network

    In the WordPress user interface, a network is a collection of separate sites created in a single WordPress installation by the multisite feature. The sites in a WordPress network are not interconnected like the things in other kinds of networks. They are very like the separate blogs at WordPress.com.

    A common use-case is to offer a blog hosting service (eg WordPress.com), in which each and every customer on the network has their own independent WordPress blog (with a different theme/design, different plugins, different users, and of course different content) — but all of them powered by a single installation of WordPress with the multisite feature activated.

    This is needed as I am running a central master site for a health related service, but sub sites will be for niche markets and will want the same information, but presented differently with additional bonus features only found on that sub site.

    That can be done, but only with the use of 3rd-party plugin(s), as this is not the way WordPress Multisite was designed to work. See:

    Free + Paid Addons: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/threewp-broadcast/

    Paid Only: https://www.welaunch.io/en/product/wordpress-multisite-sync/

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