Themes Not Available to Sub-SubDirectory Sites

  • After spending days and days of getting the kinks worked out, I am hopefully down to one last issue and have finally broken down and decided to ask for help. ??

    I have WP 3.5.2 and hosting through GoDaddy. I have only one active plugin at the moment, which is “Networks for WordPress”. I have little websites I do here and there for different organizations or groups of people. Some are different sites for different projects within the same overall group, but I wanted each site to have its own theme, so an example would be having site.com, site.com/org1, site.com/org1/project1, site.com/org1/project2, site.com/org2, site.com/org2/project1, etc. all with their own themes. I tried all sorts of things to get it working, and after trying a ton of different .htaccess tips from old forum postings, this has definitely gotten things working the best so far:

    # BEGIN WordPress
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    # Rule 1
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

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

    # Rule 3: add a trailing slash to “/wp-admin”
    # Note: This rule issues and redirect that will subsequently match Rule 5
    RewriteRule ^(([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)*)wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

    # Rule 4: do nothing if URL is a file or directory
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule ^ – [L]

    # Rule 5: strip preceeding path from wp-(content|admin|includes) paths
    # Example: {RewriteBase}sub-site/sub-folder/wp-admin/sites.php –> {RewriteBase}wp-admin/sites.php
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)*(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]

    # Rule 6
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)*(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]

    # Rule 7
    RewriteRule . index.php [L]

    # END WordPress
    # BEGIN wtwp_cache
    # END wtwp_cache

    # BEGIN wtwp_security
    # END wtwp_security

    The problem is that when I install and enable a theme, it will show up on the theme list for the first subdirectory (i.e. site.com/org1), but it won’t show up past that first level (i.e. not for site.com/org1/project1). The two themes included with the initial WP install do show up on the list, just not any new ones I am installing and enabling for the network.

    Any and all ideas are appreciated. Please let me know if there is any additional information I can post that may be useful.

    Thanks!

    Ashlee

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I wanted each site to have its own theme

    So there are two different ways to activate themes.

    1) Active for all sites – aka Network Activate

    2) Activate ON each individual site.

    You probably want #2, right? So this is actually easy!

    Step 1 – Install the theme
    Step 2 – Go to Network Admin -> Sites
    Step 3 – Click on ‘Edit’ for the individual site
    Step 4 – Go to the themes tab for that site, activate the site

    Done!

    Thread Starter ashleecopper

    (@ashleecopper)

    Ipstenu,

    Thanks so much for responding. I have tried to do this a few times, but I can’t seem to find where to get to the “edit” page for sub-subdirectories (not sure if there is a better word for this?). I have only set up the first organization so far, so it does list site1.com/org1, but it won’t let me add sub-subdirectories to the sites list. The only way I have been able to add them is using the “Networks” within the Sites section, but I can’t find a way to edit them from there. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Ashlee

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Well for starters you made your ‘sub subs’ wrong.

    You needed to use a plugin like https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-multi-network/

    Thread Starter ashleecopper

    (@ashleecopper)

    I have been playing around with the site off and on and finally decided just to wipe it out and start from scratch and was sure to follow all of the installation instructions step-by-step. I have tried several methods for setting up the sites using the “Multi Network” piece, but I am stuck because I get some form of error no matter what I try. I decided to test creating kayenta.us/tech and kayenta.us/tech/programs sites that could each have their own theme. I went to the networks section and designated the domain for the first as “kayenta.us” and the path as “tech/”…if I do it any other way, then the path doesn’t show correctly when I click the Network Admin link for that network. Even though the path is correct, I get an “Internal Server Error”. Also, if I go to “My Sites” at the top and go to “KUSD Technology Department”, then “Dashboard”, it tries to pull up “kayenta.ustech/…” the slash in front of “tech” is missing. I have a few other questions, but I figure I should start here and maybe fixing this will resolve the other issues.

    In case it is of use, here is my current .htcaccess file:

    # BEGIN WordPress

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [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).*) kayenta/$2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ kayenta/$2 [L]
    RewriteRule . index.php [L]

    # END WordPress

    And a portion of my wp-config.php file:

    /* Multisite */
    define( ‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true );

    define(‘MULTISITE’, true);
    define(‘SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL’, false);
    /* define(‘DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘kayenta.us’); */
    define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’, ‘/’);
    define(‘SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);
    define(‘BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE’, 1);

    Thread Starter ashleecopper

    (@ashleecopper)

    And a big thank you in advance for anyone who can help out – it would be greatly appreciated! ??

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