Julian Fox (greataussiepie)

I probably should have also referenced this article

Do you really need a network?
The sites in a multisite network are separate, very much like the separate blogs at WordPress.com. They are not interconnected like things in other kinds of networks (even though plugins can create various kinds of interconnections between the sites). If you plan on creating sites that are strongly interconnected, that share data, or share users, then a multisite network might not be the best solution.

– https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Before_You_Create_A_Network

Hi,

Can i ask what theme are you using?

It sounds like you are trying to password protect a page, and perhaps you are mistakenly ‘hiding’ those pages.

Try turning off ‘Hide password protected projects’ in the theme options, and then Log Out, and then visit the URL of a password protected page once again.

let me know if i have understood you correctly.

Ok so this is an interesting one.

If you have a solution to make it happen thats great, lets think it through so we can be certain of security.

So long as you use a method for enforcing strong passwords, users can create their own passwords and you know they will be up to standard. So no there’s no security issue here, in fact it may be more secure to ask users to choose a password (so long as a reasonable strength is enforced), that way its not emailed over a non-secure connection and it wont be visible in a plain text email somewhere.

Alternatively you may want to consider forcing users to change their password when they login. I am only guessing, but i bet your client would prefer the user to choose their own password so that they are more likely to remember it, remind them that there is a reset password button on the login screen for users, and you can also use other things like a Facebook or WordPress single sign in plugin to eliminate usernames and passwords all together and still maintain security.

also using a plugin i like to give my users the option of signing in with their email or username that way they don’t have to remember the username, and if they reallly want they can sign up using their email password, that way their login will be easy to remember because they can now login with their email and email password.

Hi emilysteeraw,

You are right, it seems you cannot make direct contact with WordPress.com until you have an account on WordPress.com.

Here is the direct link to their support and contact page https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ – from reading this they only offer access to the forums and the documentation without logging in.

I noticed on the contact page i referenced above there is a resend activation email button that might help you.

Also, since it is free to sign up to WordPress.com you can sign up before you have to pay for any upgrades or spend any money. Since you havent actually purchased the domain yet, maybe you could go ahead and sign up by clicking here it will ask you to create a free blog, just go head and make one and delete it later or use it if you want, but at least here we can get you logged in and get you in contact with the right people, after all if your willing to spend your own money im sure they do indeed want to help you.

Hi,

Let me see if i understand what you are saying. in the google structured data testing tool you see URLs that say something like https://www.yoursite.com/2014/09/06/post-name/ ?

you might be able to change this to https://www.yoursite.com/game-review/post-name/ by selecting and editing custom structure under Settings > Permalinks in the WordPress dashboard. in the custom structure field you would want to put:
/game-review/%postname%/ this will mean all your blog posts will go under the url yoursite.com/game-review/post-name/ where post-name will be the name you give to the post.

If you want to go a little further, you could create a custom post type, this will allow you to tell WordPress that you are not writing posts, you are writing game reviews, and then Google will not mistake it for a news article (if thats what you are worried about)

The plugin you referenced allows you to switch between existing post types. So this plugin wont create new post types.

Consider creating a custom post type called ‘Games’ or ‘Game Review’ and make this custom post type similar to a Page or Post except now you can see it in the URL as game and you will be able to use categories and tags for games, also people will be able to view an archive of game articles and optionally organize that archive by tag or category, and at the same time you could still use posts and pages if and when you need to.

to get started with custom post types install the plugin wp-types and read the WordPress codex on Custom Post Types

Hi,

you mentioned that until last week everything was fine and without upgrades nothing can be added ( i.e fix this problem) this leads me to believe its probably an upgrade issue, WordPress 4.0 was just released.

Firstly i would deactivate all your plugins and see if that helps, if not then you might have a server side issue and it might help to contact your website hosting provider, if WordPress works fine after deactivating all plugins then its probably an update issue. After backing everything up, then i would go ahead and update everything, because your WordPress will be more secure and probably work better if you update.

Before you do anything I would suggest backing up your database, and wordpress files, and then i would update all your plugins and also update wordpress to WordPress 4.0, because on Thursday the 4th this week there was an update from 3.9.1 to 4.0.

If you are using any plugins that connect to an API such as Facebook or Twitter, then there could be some kind of conflict since WordPress and a lot of plugins have been updated in the last week. So what im saying is, even if you haven’t updated, all of this update business will still affect you, because your software is now out of date and may not be able to communicate with services that are expecting your WordPress and plugins to be udpated, deactivating plugins will help narrow this down.

Let us know how you go, with more info we can find a more specific answer ??

Hi @kirsten-sadev I think you posted this twice, i replied to your other thread here

Hi Kirsten-SA dev,

wow its great news to hear your news site is growing, thats so awesome.

You mentioned you are not using W3Total Cache, but you are using a load balancer (thats cool), try experimenting with a good caching plugin, one of my sites gets about 10 thousand hits a month, with about 10 new users a month and i had to install a caching plugin to get it down to a reasonable page load time. However it sounds like you should upgrade your host (1.2 mill users wow), a good dedicated WordPress host will handle caching for you and when they do it it works realllly well, the reason i suggest upgrading is because WordPress is more than capable of handling well over 1 million users and visitors, and your site growth is a peace of cake for WordPress, and it is more than likely your server set up, I am not a IT network engineer so i cannot say for certain that your set is ‘bad’, it looks to me like a ‘bad ass’ set up, However, they call it IT network engineering for a reason ?? and your site growth sounds like its time to get serious cause your headed for the major leagues.

I use wp-engine, and i really love those guys, i went with them because i wanted to retain control over customization (im trying to get into development), But if i was hired to set up a website for a news paper client with 1 million+ visitors/users, i would try and get them to use WordPress.com, and since you sound like you already know how to use WordPress, the guys over at Automattic and WordPress.com would get you set up so quickly, Times magazine uses WordPress.com and so does a bunch of other high profile magazines, all of which have HUGE traffic and probably HEAPS of authors posting tons of articles. WordPress.com doesnt limit you in any way technically, its exactly the same as www.ads-software.com, they even have e-commerce upgrades, but you can only modify CSS (not core files), you have to pay for every single extra upgrade like domian name, modify CSS, e-commerce, and you can only use their Free or Premium themes (i.e you can’t install one from theme forest, but you can get one specially made for wordpress.com i think) etc… If you are serious about upgrades and you just need WordPress to work, i’d go with WordPress.com, you pay them and they will deliver, wp-engine are great, but their business model is, Here is a WordPress install on a beefed up server, go nuts, but that means you still have to set it up properly and you can modify any code you want, they also handle server load, caching, backups etc.. its pretty good but you have to do more work, so going with WordPress.com sounds like a good idea for a magazine of your size (even as a manager or dev with many users i bet you have your hands full, plus you will probably be required to make CSS modifcations etc), who can’t afford to waste time. i encourage you to go and checkout WordPress.com, but also to send their customer service team an email asking them some questions, i bet you will find they will pretty much just copy your existing site and you will be ready to go.

Hi dschaefer,

let me start by saying, congratualtions for getting back into blogging and welcome to WordPress :), next its a good idea to install Multi-site into the root directory of your site. By installing multi-site into the root directory initially, it makes it easier to decide how you want your structure, this way you can prevent things like domain.com/wp/blog2, because right now your main URL is domain.com/wp/ and unfortunately the only way to change this is by editing the database and wp-config.php file in your /wp/ directory.

Multi-site is great, but as far as sharing links between the two sites its not necessary to do it this way, however its really your preference that matters.

For example, if you decided to go with 3 single individual WP installs instead of multi-site. To answer question 4, yes its possible to do this without multi-site; On blog 1 you could have a RSS feed that would display posts from blog 2 (or any blog at on the internet), in the side bar using a widget.

I am familiar with the set up process of multi-site as i have had to do it a few times before, but i am not aware of a specific feature in multi-site that allows you to link between different subsites, but there probably is, or at least a plugin for that.

In regards to your installation and site structure issues:

These forum articles may be of interest to you, these guys were able to change the URL of their multi-site by editing the DB and these guys were able to change which site was the main site and which was in a subdirectory by editing the wp-config.php file in their root directory.

multi-site can get confusing for beginners (as i still get confused by how it can be arranged, but it is simpler than it seems to be, but my understanding still comes and goes so please bare with me haha)

It seems that you want your website to be like this:

domain.com/ (wp-mutli-site install in root directory of website)
domain.com/blog1 (additional sub-sites installed in sub-directories)
domain.com/blog2 (additional sub-sites installed in sub-directories)

As you can see instead of initially installing WordPress into its own folder, it is installed into the root directory. At first glance you may think, but multi-site is a group of websites, it has to be installed into a subdirectoy, well actually no. The core WordPress files get installed as a normal WordPress website, and when you activate multi-site you simply have one website at domain.com and you can now create additional websites in sub-directories and they will be typed into the URL bar as domain.com/blog2.

Remember when we set up a WordPress site, multi-site or single, we set the Site Title and Tag Line, the same is done on multi-site for each sub-site you create. so for example if you named your main blog My Blog 1 its url would be domain.com and if you named one of your sub-blogs/sites My Blog 2, its url would be domian.com/my-blog-2, because WordPress will fill in the spaces automatically as usual. So in a way, creating a sub-site is similar to creating a page, but you get WAY more features than just ‘publish’ get me ;), now you are the SUPER-admin of all sites, and you can create ‘Authors’ or ‘Admins’ of sub-sites, and they only have access to the specific blog you assign them. You can also create new SUPER-admins who have access to everything.

What i would do if i was you, is go ahead and do a fresh install, start over, and this time install WordPress into the Root Directory, you can change which blog is the main blog later with a bit of tinkering, but since your starting out you can decide now. This will make it so all your sub-sites ‘blog2’ will be domain.com/blog2

A few helpful tips:

• Q:Why is multi-site useful?
• A:Because it simply allows you to seperate multiple sites but keep them within the same domain and WordPress installation, the main points to take from this are:
• 1. You can now have domain.com and domain.com/blog2 and they can have different themes and use different plugins, but as the SUPER-admin you can manage both sites, themes and plugisn, in 1 dashboard called the Super Admin Dashboard
• 2. the plugin Jetpack gives you a similar functionality, by installing jetpack on your self-hosted blog you can sign in to WordPress.com and then connect all your individual single WordPress.org (self-hosted) installs, allowing you to see stats and comments from 1 dashboard, there are also other plugins that can do this and have more features
• Julians final thoughts: Multi-site is really great, but its mostly meant for people who manage multiple blogs of a similar brand or topic but need sub sites for different categories AND multiple authors such as a magazine or news publication website, Did you know (i could be wrong) but www.ads-software.com, buddypress.org and bbpress.org and probably more all run on the same WordPress install? yep, its possible, you can use a plugin like Andrea Rennick explains to map custom domains to different WordPress sub-sites. So WordPress multi-site is a set of features designed for a group of people, if your managing 3 or so blogs on your own, it could be handy, but maybe just Jetpack or something similar would fulfil your needs, i run 4 and i use jetpack.
• Hold on, you mentioned WordPress.com? Yeh, so www.ads-software.com is your self-hosted WordPress blog, you could edit the code when you download it, fully customize it, so what is WordPress.com? well simply put, its the Software as a Service version of the free www.ads-software.com, WordPress.com is still good!, you have to pay money to upgrade your features, but you can start out with a free account and create as many free blogs as you like, and manage them from the 1 dashboard (sort of like multi-site). tip: when i want to create a new website quickly, one that later on i want to get a new domain for and purchasing hosting, what i do is go and create a new blog on WordPress.com, set it up using free themes, get it looking ok, work on the content and then later on i will either upgrade my WordPress.com account so i can modify CSS and do e-commerce, or i will export it to a www.ads-software.com self hosted site where i can then use WooCommerce or any theme or combination of plugins that i like.

If you have backed up your database and files then yes go ahead and update via FTP.

However it sounds like you have a different issue: if you can’t see users or plugins or an update button it is because you are not logged in as an administrator or something is wrong.

I would start a new topic called can’t upgrade client site from 3.5 to 3.9. They will be able to help. Just copy and past what u write here, a new topic will get ur problem solved faster and since it’s slightly different deserves a better answer than I have.

Thanks for your advice I’ll give it a go later on and check back.

ah yes it is, it says 30 attacks prevented, maybe i expected this to block them all together, im using an activity log plugin and it is still reporting many login attempts. Perhaps these login attempts are being blocked and recorded in the activity log.

I presummed that some how a visitor flagged by bruteprotect would just simply be blocked from visiting my site.

I should go read all the documentation on bruteprotect before crying about it lol thanks for ur repsonse.

any other helpful hints to quick start my learning on bruteprotect would be appreciated

Thanks for the tip, ill have to have a good look at it and play around with it on a staging site i think i’m just not understanding the documentation ill have to go over it carefully.

Thanks for putting me on the right track.

Yes because the Woo product must be created by an admin or shop manager there is no way of creating a product when a user creates an event, at least not that i know of.

You may be able to get Gravity forms or similar to allow a user to create a new product and a new event in one smooth process. but im not sure then how you would tell events manager what the product ID is for the product that the user just created.

I wonder if it is possible to have a form that allows a user to create an event and a Woo product at the same time, the event stores the Woo product ID in some extra meta tables stored in the event, and when the user clicks save it adds the product to their cart. and then maybe make a woocommerce extension that will show the related event information along with the product information in the checkout. i dont even know if thats possible and im sure if you could do it you probably would have already, but i dunno i wish i could help more ??

Good luck if i think of anything i’ll let you know.

The really cool thing i like about this method is that it is done entirely within the settings and features that come default in WooCommerce and Events Manager. They may have not specifically intended to work together, but im pretty sure WooCommerce itself adds products to the cart via a URL in emails much the same way we are doing here with Events Manager so the intended use of the features designed into both the plugins working together is ok. if you feel what im sayin..

updated: essentially all we are doing here is replacing the shop front/product listing and more importantly the email part of WooCommerce with Events Manager – and then replacing Events Manager payment gateway with WooCommerce