Bonnie Walker

I have this habit of answering my own questions in the forum!

I check the reviews, and it turns out it is now possible to remove the word/slug “blog” without a plugin:

https://www.webhostwhat.com/remove-blog-slug-from-wordpress-multisite-without-plugin/

I hope posting this here as well helps anyone else who comes along.

Thanks!

Well, we are down to the spammers and mansplainers who don’t understand the question but feel free to answer it anyway. So, marking this as “resolved” even though I am still hesitant to try a network of networks, mainly because the other network owners would not be as technically skilled. thanks everyone for the genuine replies!

Thanks cln.lgr! I am glad someone saw this! The lack of responses does not give me a lot of confidence that this is a well-implemented, well-tested part of WordPress. I am still trying to decide if we need the multisite of multisites or not … If I do try it, I will post about it!

Thank you for backing up Siteground … that wasn’t really my question though. i apologize for including the “bitching about siteground” part. I should have known everyone would focus on that and avoid answering my question.

I have never seen that message in a single WP Installation and I’ve been using both multisite and single installations since 2010.

How about I re-ask and we can focus on that:

My preference is to update the core and the entire network at once, nice and clean and neat.

It just sounds sloppy to me to update only the core and not the rest of the network.

Hi Joy,

The network is the sites on the multisite network. If you’ve ever upgraded to a new version of WordPress, you upgrade the core and then it instructs you to also update the network. This has been standard procedure for Multisite for a long time.

When Siteground autoupdates the core, when I log in, WordPress asks me to upgrade the network, which i think is sloppy and inefficient of their so-called autoupdater to do.

~Bonnie

This worked well for me, expect that the site title and tagline got shifted to the top of the image instead of its original placement near the bottom. I know I’ve dealt with this before but can’t find my notes. Anyone have the CSS to make the Twenty Seventeen Site Title stay in the same place? Thanks!

Thanks for the link. It’s a possibility although the description is really not quite clear who / how it’s giving access. I will take a look at the code and see if I can hack it to fit my own evil purposes.

Thanks!

Hi JudgeRookie,

My goal is to never touch a theme that I don’t control and I definitely do not control Twenty Seventeen! Child themes are much safer way to make your own customizations.

I found the answer in an article at Kinsta.com:

https://kinsta.com/blog/twenty-seventeen-theme/

function my_custom_header_args( $args ) {
  $args['default-image'] = get_theme_file_uri( '/assets/images/header.jpg' );
  return $args;
}
add_filter( 'twentyseventeen_custom_header_args', 'my_custom_header_args' );

And placed the corresponding image in the child theme /assests/images folder.

Hopefully, that will save anyone else some time if they want to build a child theme on Twenty Seventeen and have their own default image in the child theme!

~Bonnie