Issue with adding new URLs for multi site integration

  • Hi

    I apologize if this is already been answered but I don’t have the most technical expertise and spend several hours in the support section and on google trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. Here is what I have currently done…

    I started with a wordpress.com page and through that I registered my URL on wordpress.com. I realized that I wanted increased functionality and I moved the entire site to be hosted by its own hosting platform and had everything moved properly and with no issues. My brother decided that he also wanted to get into the blogging game and I went ahead and purchased a totally separate URL for him through the hosting platform. I wanted to allow him the ability to utilize everything that I had created on my blog (i.e. custom style, pluggins, ect) without having to go through the entire process I went through. I looked online and went through the process again of creating the multi site functionality as well as the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin which was downloaded and installed.

    But it still only allows me to create sites that say URL.exploringny.com instead of just URL.com. What I want to be able to do is have my site available… exploringny.com and also update his site of Example.com and not have it be a subdomain.

    I tried using this particular tutorial which broke it down a little more simply, as I don’t have the most experience in this.

    https://fronterahouse.com/blog/ultimate-wordpress-multisite-domain-mapping-tutorial/

    I seem to have gotten stuck at step 3 but I really don’t know what I am doing wrong. Can someone please help?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    But it still only allows me to create sites that say URL.exploringny.com instead of just URL.com. What I want to be able to do is have my site available… exploringny.com and also update his site of Example.com and not have it be a subdomain.

    So what you do is make URL.exploringny.com and then use the mapping plugin to add URL.com and make that the primary domain for URL.exploringny.com

    By making URL.exploringny.com you did step 3 correctly ?? Move on to 4.

    Hey I’m late to the party here, so I bet this issue has either been resolved or you’ve moved on. I’m the guy who wrote the article, by the way. ??

    As Mika has said, it sounds as though you’ve done everything correctly up to step 3. What you’re saying you want to do is have sites like “example.com” point to a location at your website (ex: “url.exploringny.com”), but all the user sees is “example.com”, correct? That’s the whole point of domain mapping. First, you need to create the “url.exploringny.com” site. You’ll handle actually mapping the domain to that location in Step 5.

    Hope everything worked out!

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