John

How many sites do you have? From what I understand, if you log into the dashboard of the subsite, it will update table changes on its own without requiring loopback. The purpose of the upgrade script is to batch update your sites (in groups of 5).

That was one example, Ipstenu was referring to another situation where it is simply inefficient and re-processes requests. I’ve used techniques like you are describing at various times too, you just have to know that you are behaving in a risky manner and there may be consequences. On a private, low-traffic site you are not going to be susceptible to some of those conditions, but when proposing the solution to others, it helps to have a giant asterisk next to it saying “here be dragons” which is what Mika was doing. If it blows up, they were forewarned.

Without the database, you will be missing most of your customizations. Your WordPress folder contains the basic application, configuration files that tell WordPress how to run and of course the theme and plugin directories. But the settings for all themes, plugins, as well as the actual content are stored in the database.

Have you tried changing what’s in the Admin section under Settings->Reading.

It can cause a loop condition which eventually consumes all resources and crashes. Here is a nice and timely writeup:
https://bavatuesdays.com/a-ghost-in-the-wordpress-machine-the-self-referential-rss-feed/

Unfortunately, I host mine locally and don’t use an external host. I assume you work through a graphical cpanel or something which I couldn’t begin to walk you through. Maybe some others have more familiarity, but we have to check whether your DB is running and try to increase the PHP memory allocation.

You are very welcome. A few points to keep in mind when using the Network Menus:

1. Every site must have a Primary Menu selected. It doesn’t have to contain anything, but in the Menus section, have something created and selected. The root blog menu will override that one.
2. Some themes include their own default category or other style menus in those areas and they too are overridden.
3. Since the Network Menu is replicated across the entire network, if you put in menu content that is local to the blog (pages, posts) it will be broken when you click on that menu item from another blog. For this reason, link to URLs instead of local content. The only exception to this is if you want to link to something that will exist in each site with the exact same name.
4. Support the plugin developers ?? The two behind that plugin write several other high quality plugins and provide a lot of support to the community. [I’m a big proponent of financially supporting code that makes your life easier]

It might be splitting hairs but a “theme” is a set of styles and functions that define how your site works. By definition, your site has one and only one theme. If you want some pages on your site to have a different layout and look & feel, you can do that with custom page templates.

Widget Logic is a plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/widget-logic/

You can exclude posts in specific categories from appearing by modifying the default page template. Check here for a description of the process.

Every category will have its own category archive page automatically. When you create custom category page templates it will automatically use the right one for each category, assuming you named them correctly.

In your case, I think the only Pro of Multi-site is that it makes it easy to enforce separation of content and layout, but it makes everything else harder. Multi-site is intended for people who want to have multiple separate blogs that are ignorant of each other but still only manage one install.

Single-site is designed to treat all content as though it were existing in a single-familiy home. Multisite is to treat everything as though they are separate apartments in an apartment building. You want to have the best of both worlds (and there is nothing wrong with that) so my advice is that it is much easier to go through the work of painting some of the rooms in your house a different color and create some customization than it is to knock out the walls of the apartment building and rewire everything.

The HTTP 500 error means that the Web server is unable to execute what should be a valid request. It is incredibly generic ??

Possible common causes are losing connection to the database or running low on memory.

How are you hosted? If I asked you to try and edit php.ini would you know what I was talking about?

Can you disable all plugins and switch back to the default TwentyTen or TwentyEleven theme? If the problem goes away, then switch things back one at a time until it dies again.

In the discussion settings do you require comments to be approved? In the list of comments do they show in the Pending category or are they Approved?

So are you able to access wp-admin? Can you see the list of existing posts within admin, just not add or modify them?

Yes, it is possible. You’d need to either develop your own theme or find one that does this automatically. I haven’t used any like that but it just requires modification of the loop.

This discussion is for a particular theme package on how to accomplish what you are asking.

There are many shopping cart plugins, this is synonymous with marketplace plugins. It is the thing which will be handling items, costs, customer information, payments, etc…

That plugin is going to be your focus. Correct me if I am wrong, but you need that plugin to be able to get its list of available items not from wordpress content, but from an external site (weebly). You would need to contact that plugin author directly to find out if it is possible.

So you are looking to put everything “in-line”?

<post 1>
<comment submit form>
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<post 2>
<comment submit form>
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