John

It makes sense that homesteadpain.com/wp-admin doesn’t exist anymore, you moved your WP install to a different domain. In a way, I was trying to test if you did in fact move it or simply copied it by having you test the results of wp-admin.

Do you run Firefox? If so, I would highly recommend you get the Firebug plugin. Enable the plugin and look at your site(s). I found some instructions that may be useful here:

In my visits, your site(s) loaded between 3 and 4 seconds. Not too bad actually. They are however not mutually exclusive. Almost all of the content is coming from sfwellness, except I think some of your backgrounds are hardcoded or set in theme options to pull from homesteadpain.com. You’ll see those in the Firebug console area. Also, certain scripts (cufon for example) are a bottleneck for you.

Hi Chitaranjan,

Just create two static pages (or if your site will be a blog as well, create three). Edit first two pages to have the content you want for the landing page and the home page. Have a link on the landing page that points to the home page. If you will be hosting blog posts as well, you can leave the third page blank. The content will be replaced by posts.

To make a static page show up as the “landing page” go to Settings->Reading and in the “Front Page Displays” section, select “A Static Page” and pick the landing page as your Front Page.

If you wish to have blog posts on your site, select the third static page you created (and left blank) as the Posts page.

You will need to create a way (menu, links, etc…) for people to get to the posts page.

Hi Magnus, if you can access the site via FTP as Len suggested, replace the footer you were editing. It may take a bit of hunting to find it, but it should be in wp-content/themes/<theme name>/<file.php>. If you were using a theme from another location or repository, you can download a clean copy and just replace the affected file/section.

If you don’t have FTP access, but you can SSH, you may be able to edit the file via text editor from the console.

Hi Sukovich, sorry for the long delay.

I have a suggestion for the future. When you make changes to your site(s), you should keep a log of the changes as you implement them, instead of just the guide you followed. That way if you have to recreate something, you will know exactly the steps you performed, not just what the guide told you to do. It is easy for any of us to skip a step, mis-type something, etc…..

Let’s break the problem down:
Do you still believe that https://www.sflwellness.com is actually drawing its content from https://www.homesteadpain.com ? What happens if you go to sfwellness.com/wp-admin and homesteadpain.com/wp-admin, do you go to the same site? Try to make a change to one of the sites. Make a post and leave it unpublished. Does it appear as an unpublished post in the other wp-admin?

Hi Sukovich,

Could you give a bit more detail on what you did? The codex document you referred to has a lot scenarios listed, could you provide step by step what changes you implemented?

Also, your old domain probably will show up in Google for some time. It will take a while for Google to index your new site.

We run multi-db with 16 databases because we may scale to >50,000 sites and would rather not have to split databases when we are staring down the barrel of a gun.

It might be a case of semantics but I doubt they are doing a “migration”. That would commonly be thought to mean: a manual export to an XML file and then manual import of that XML file into the new blog.

They are probably doing cross-posting, such as via this plugin:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/multipost-mu/

That would allow you to send a post to a new blog through manual action, but not “migration”.

Are you asking for migration (manual process of moving posts) or a syndication/repost process where posts one one blog show up simultaneously and automatically on other blogs depending on the content?

Purely a performance concern, Dan. I have heard references to a maximum number of tables in Mysql, but if such a limit exists, the odds are that your ability to extract data from the db would have imploded already.

Could you provide some more information? What do you have set in the Settings->Discussion area? What is checked for Comments and Pingback on the individual posts you wish to receive comments on?

Many themes include ‘default widgets’ which appear unless you add _anything_ to the sidebar. If you add any widgets at all, it ignores the pre-defined widgets and pays attention to your choices. However the existence of the sidebar itself is defined within the theme’s PHP files.

It is possible to easily remove the sidebar by editing those files, but that’s a slippery slope. If you change the files, your changes will get overwritten when you update the theme. For that reason you would want to modify a copy of the theme, giving it a totally new name or create a child theme. If that isn’t your cup of tea, ask the theme developer to hack out a sidebar-less version.

When you enable Multi-site, your entire instance of WordPress and all blogs (including the root blog) are part of one network. The biggest question would be, “Do I want all of my blogs to be named as subfolders of the same domain or subdomains?”

Subfolders= https://www.someplace.com/ <the root blog>, https://www.someplace.com/blog1, https://www.someplace.com/blog2, etc…
Subdomains=www.someplace.com <the root blog>, blog1.someplace.com, blog2.someplace.com

So in that sense, you do install it in your main Web site homepage (assuming you are using WP to deliver the main site). If I were you I would make a good backup, install WP, configure it for MultiSite, configure your main blog/site and if you wish, import the content from the old main blog/site and make it pretty. Then do the same for the other blog/site you wished to run.

As you are in “construction mode” you may wish to install an enhanced privacy plugin to allow you to set additional privacy levels, one of which is “visible to Admins only” so that you can access and work on your site without worrying about bots and casual visitors seeing the sausage being made. I use SiteWide Privacy Options for WP MultiSite (https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/sitewide-privacy-options-for-wordpress-mu) but there are many others out there.

I would suggest running WordPress in Multi-site mode. You can still have separate URLs for each blog, even separate domains with the right plugins. Another benefit of this method is that you have one set of plugins, themes, code-base to update or customize instead of four.

Actually there are several. I haven’t used it myself, but there is this one:
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/category-posts/

There are even some RSS by category widgets so that you could pull in posts from a different blog by category.

Hi Agonius, is this showing up because it was a hardcoded widget in the theme? If so, and you would prefer to not have to edit the theme files, just adding the widgets you do want causes the hardcoded ones to disappear.