John

I can tell you immediately that iframe content in posts is blocked by default, for good security reasons. There are plugins that exist which can override this, usually for specific sites instead of globally, which works to your favor. I can’t recommend any of them personally.

You can easily accomplish your “contact me” needs with a contact form plugin. Some themes even include a contact form custom page template. You are wise to not float your email address if you don’t need to, however keep in mind that if you are trying to avoid spam, a contact form is just as susceptible as your email address.

Do you already have a marketplace plugin you are using to handle the transactions?

Can you check if you made the older posts “sticky”? You can see it in the Quick Edit section.

Unless the theme developer included a setting in theme options, you would need to edit the theme CSS to change the width of the sidebar.

Hi Aiden,

First off, wonderful photographs! Secondly, can you elaborate on “a few of the sub-pages”? When you upload an image, it will exist at a static location, its file URL, as well as in category and permalink pages if you uploaded it with a post.

There really isn’t :/ It’s not the ‘use case’ for WP Multisite (in fact, I’m 90% sure that the various ‘menus’ you see as the same on all the make.www.ads-software.com sites, which are indeed using MS, are hard coded into the theme)

I concur. I have had to do that in several of our sites. We do have a use for adding singular elements in a non-global fashion to various sites and there were too many variables to control to make writing a plugin worthwhile. It was much easier to just hardcode our theme.

You can create the page on any site you like, but when you insert the reference in the menu, use the URL as though it were an external link.

If you wish to replicate this across multiple site within your network, you’ll need a plugin. I use one called Network Menus. This takes the main menu from the root site and replicates it in the first menu spot on all child sites. If you want to customize all of your child site menus and have just this ONE ITEM in common, I am not aware of a way to do that.

Can you elaborate on “not works”? Do you not see the links in the list under Link content type? Do you see them and they do not respond to delete functions?

It may be a problem with your .htaccess file. This problem seems similar to yours.

Exporting the blogs only creates a text file that includes the text-based content, and references to media. If you create an export file you would need to have a new blog set up before the old one disappears or you would not be able to import images and whatnot. Also it does not export any configuration information for the original blog (theme, plugins, settings, widgets, etc….).

This may provide some background: https://www.elegantthemes.com/troubleshooting-timthumb.html

If I understand your problem correctly, you are going to try and change the domain/URL for your MultiSite install. The steps are outlined here, scroll down to “Moving WordPress MultiSite”. Unfortunately there isn’t just a switch to flip, but there may be some scripts that others have written to modify the database entries as necessary.

A WordPress install has a User table in the database. On multisite installs it is shared/common between all sites. However each site still has its own membership roles (subscriber, contributor, author, editor, admin). So if I become a member of Blog A, I have an entry in the user table, and that same account could be given privileges on Blog B, but by default, Blog B does not grant me privileges.

With category archives, you have separate pages for each category and can customize the display, even on a category by category basis, although it would require customizing the category archive templates.

You can find out more info here.

Do not import content until the very end. After all, you’ll need to be able to assign authorship to the posts on import if you haven’t migrated them yet, and you wouldn’t likely add user accounts (other than your admin) until you had everything else working. When the framework of the new site is ready to go live, then as s_ha_dum suggests, plan a maintenance window, take the original site into maintenance and do an export.

P.S. dumping the database and replacing it with the one from the first site will likely undo many of the changes you were attempting to accomplish.

If you have already imported the content into your dev install and are worried about duplicates, it may be worthwhile to look into a mass-delete plugin.

I was just mentioning it as a matter of course for doing support. There are a few plugins that cause redirect conflicts. But Ipstenu is MUCH more fluent in .htaccess matters than I. ??

Oops, my mistake, I somehow had it in my head that you were getting 404 errors, not too many redirects.

Just to make sure we aren’t dealing with any plugin incompatibility, have you disabled ALL plugins and switched theme to 2010/2011?