how to select a theme for multisites different from main site

Oh I just figured it out. There are two separate theme settings in Admin dashboard. The one in the Super Admin controls the network only. Doh!

Still can’t figure out how to get the theme to show on my new sites though, if anyone has any ideas.

To set up a theme that any site can use
1) Go to Super Admin -> Themes
2) Select enable for all themes you want enabled.
3) Save ??

To pick a theme for a specific site:
1) Go to https://thatsite.domain.com/wp-admin (or https://domain.com/thatsite/wp-admin if using subfolders)
2) Go to Appearance -> Themes
3) Click on the theme you want to activate ??

Thanks, but I can’t access https://domain.com/thatsite/wp-admin – it says that page does not exist.

What’s your real URL?

main site: reshelter.org

new network site: reshelter.org/samplejournal

new network site admin log in: reshelter.org/samplejournal/wp-admin/

Looks like you didn’t update your .htaccess file.

For Multisite it should be this:

WPMU .htaccess
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

There’s more going on and it’s an issue we had sometimes with MU. the blog will serve up fine, but not the stylesheet or the admin area. Post will, which is weird.

That’s … really weird.

Logically, if ALL that gets changed is the DB tables and .htaccess, then something in one of those is ‘wrong’ but I can’t guess what.

I’m assuming no fix save start over? (How can posts show if you can’t get into the wp-admin area!?)

I know, right?

haven’t come across it yet while I was answering posts.

Thanks Ipstenu, your .htaccess changes fixed my problem. It’s strange though, because I did make the changes to .htaccess as per my Admin panel in the install. Your code is a bit different than the instructions I had. Very odd. Well, thanks for the advice, it worked!!

Oh the bit between the if module should be the same ?? I always wrap those things in a check to make sure mod rewrite is running, in case something goes blooey.

Thanks andrea_r – changing out the code in my .htaccess to what you have fixed my troubles as well. Suggest this gets looked at for updates to wp3. This is the code given in network setup instructions (which didn’t work)

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

# END WordPress

I’d argue it was server-specific in your case, as the given htaccess works for me on different servers. ??

Just a quick note about selecting themes for specific sites. You can activate a theme site wide using /wp-admin/ms-themes.php (for instance if you want any user to have a choice of themes). Then as already pointed out, from the admin of each site /wp-admin/themes.php, choose a theme.

You can also individually activate a theme for a site via Super Admin-> Sites (wp-admin/ms-sites.php), and edit the the site. In the right column a section Site Themes is available showing all of the themes in wp-content/themes. You can check which themes you want for that specific site (if for instance you have a custom theme for a specific site and don’t want any other site to have ability to use it).