Lesa

I fixed it.

Turns out, wildcard DNS is NOT the way to go when you are on Godaddy shared hosting. They simply don’t support automatically creating subdomains.

If you want to use subdomains — and I do — you’ll need to manually create them in cpanel.

This super helpful video explains how: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsKeVBhM4EQ

My multisite is the main domain so my document root was simply public_html

You are not paying attention to what I am saying.

I read the “ultimate guide” stuff. I’ve searched the forums for answers. I’ve read the codex and gone through the troubleshooting tips.

What is broken here is NOT something obvious, like I didn’t create the site correctly… or I didn’t set up the wildcard!

To prove this to you, I created another new site:
https://testing.akashicsoultuning.com/wp-admin/

And no surprise to me, I get the same result. File not found.

But I can “visit” the site: https://testing.akashicsoultuning.com
And get the same “coming soon” error. (So the subdomain is getting created correctly, but there’s no access to WordPress).

This is exactly the problem that I described earlier.

And it is very frustrating because I don’t understand coding enough to troubleshoot what isn’t working. I am here for that help. If you can’t help me, just say so, and I’ll go elsewhere.

I already created the wildcard DNS and according to the forum posting that I have read in trying to fix this, if that wasn’t set up correctly, the sudomain wouldn’t be created. But it is being created… hence the “coming soon” page that appears when I try to visit the site.

The problem is within WordPress itself. As a result, Godaddy support would be no help. They would direct me to contact WordPress. Which is the reason for this post.

Sent you some samples. Let me know if you need more information.

Add this to the custom CSS box in magic action box:
.mab-wrap{ margin: auto; }

I really, really want to simply display a random quote in the sidebar, rather than using the fancy “cycle” feature anyway… so I did a workaround. I’ll post it here in case it will help someone else.

Install the Use Shortcodes in Sidebar Widgets plugin, then use the testimonial’s shortcode to display a random testimonial: [ random-testimonial category=”xx” limit=”x” ] You can even set a category and number of testimonials to display. Then, I just added a link to “Read more testimonials” to my testimonial page and I was done. (One downside is the formatting isn’t exactly the same as the name of the client isn’t italics, but I can live with that).

I have 10 testimonials in the category that I am trying to display. Only the last one entered displays, even with “cycle” selected.

Also, can you tell me where to find the color for the background of the testimonial display? I’d like to change it to something a little less grey.

I updated the plugin and it now correctly displays the correct category in the widget. And, although “cycle” now saves, the testimonial that is being displayed does not change.

You can see for yourself:
https://blogtest.getyourblogdone.net/
This is a production site that I am working on for a client:

I’m experiencing the same problem… also, in case it is related, I can’t get the widget to save with the “cycle” type.

If you could add the option for “random” instead, that would work too.