iThemes and Multisite – anything to avoid?

@john O

@lernerconsulting says it works fine. And he seems to have more MS experience than me … Wait for his response.

Personally I would not run the iTSec (Pro) plugin in Multi Site IN ITS CURRENT FORM despite the fact that iThemes claims Multi Site support.

I have a list of 13 MS specific bugs (and I’m not even running Multi Site) so there are probably a lot more … then again there are always bugs in software.
Saw a couple of things in de plugin code that made me scratch my head …
No, MS support is definately not properly implemented ??
In general it seems to work though …

But as always the less you know the better it seems to be …
Don’t judge a book just by its cover …

And again wait for @lernerconsulting response.
I value his opinion regarding MS.

dwinden

@john O

When I see code like this it makes me a little bit sad:

$adminurl = is_multisite() ? admin_url() . 'network/' : admin_url();

It should simply use the network_admin_url() function which checks for multisite on its own.
No multisite, then it will return the result of the admin_url() function.

$adminurl = network_admin_url();

dwinden

Ok – maybe i should find a different plugin – or is it just certain aspects of iThemes that don’t work?

I’ve used iThemes security for years, on multi-site. Used on client sites, on different hosts.

There are occasional problems with older hosts that do non-standard setups, need to tweak what options are turned on; the worse your host, the more troubleshooting you need to do to find out what settings work. (Of course better to get off those crappy hosting companies!)

I haven’t found problems with iThemes Security, nor have other technical experts in the local WordPress community. Pick other security plugins if you like their “style” better, WordFence is the only other one I know that is comparable; but no need to switch based on how it works with multi-site.

If you don’t have a specific problem when you run it, use it. (And post a question with specific problems, the authors or users can probably answer it.)

I run ithemes security on a multi-site and it does seem to mostly work fine, but periodically it deletes the standard wordpress rewrite rules and breaks all the site, which is a tad annoying, even if it does just mean re-pasting this into .htaccess (this is for subdomain multi-sites, as per https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Multisite_Network_Administration#.htaccess_and_Mod_Rewrite ):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^wp-admin$ wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(.*\.php)$ wp/$1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

There seems to be a Multi Site specific bug with Malware Scan.

And the Malware Scan logs page link in Multi Site returns the following message :

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

dwinden