mikelbyl

Yes I am having this issue and furthermore the “Execute PHP in this hook” is no longer visible at all in the interface. When I paste in new PHP and save it, the php code is largely escaped and the function does not work.

UPDATE – sorry my mistake, issue solved. Apparent permissions issue with a collaborator on the blog.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by mikelbyl. Reason: Update

OK well then I think I’m going to try this:

1. Save the site with absolute references in a correctly-named directory at the web root.

2. See what happens without doing anything.

3. “Deactivate” the site (puts it on ice, essentially) and notice if problems, if there were any, are solved.

4. If there continue to be problems, it will be simple enough to delete the static folder and re-activate the WordPress site and try another approach.

I’ll try and report back so you have a record of this for your users.

Thank you – all is well on the front end now.

Yes – here it is: https://events.playgroundpoker.ca/million-results/

Note I have removed the Sorting Plugin extension for demonstration purposes. When it was installed, the public facing site (linked above) is correct but the back-end is exactly as we see here).

Thanks for your help.

For the record, I went ahead and tried this on a test site in the same multisite install: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/howto-domain-mapping-without-a-plugin-instructions

And it worked perfectly, nothing broke whatsoever.

It’s a real shame that there’s so much out-of-date info about this subject, because the solution is dead simple, requires no plugins or new config files, and can be applied to an existing site with very little chance of breakage.

Perfect – thank you.

This worked like a charm, just one bit of info to clarify.

When you write to add

‘define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, $_SERVER[ ‘HTTP_HOST’ ] );’

to wp-config – do you mean *exactly* that – or should I be replacing those various texts (i.e., COOKIE_DOMAIN with values for the servers I am using?

This is not clear to me.

I know this is likely an elementary question but I hope the answer helps others who might come along later as well.

Hey Dan thanks for the reply.

What you suggest is an option but it’s really a last-chance kind of thing because it will be extremely time-consuming with a lot of picky re-development work involved, at least in my experience.

I hope to hear from someone with a little more experience before I do my trials.

Update: I noticed the following post – https://halfelf.org/2014/mapping-domains-without-plugin/

…which suggests that if I map the new domain to the current server and then make the small adjustments in the multisite config for that site everything will just work.

Is this correct? As I mentioned before there is nothing “on” the other domain at the moment, so this shouldn’t be an issue.

Never mind – I see an update at github.: https://github.com/copyblogger/

I found a solution but I need a way to implement it sustainably.

I simply edited the plugin to give the stylesheet priority 6 instead of 99 as it was coded.

Not sure how to migrate this change to my functions.php file so that if the plugin auto-updates nothing breaks.

Sorry I didn’t return here for a while. I decided to use Yoast instead – I could never get the Jetpack Open Graph information to work correctly. Any anyhow with no interface for the information, it was pretty much guesswork for anything to do with open graph implementation using Jetpack. This is an important shortcoming of Jetpack.

Thanks, but when I wrote the question I left out a significant detail – I am using the Genesis Framework (really a theme) with a child theme already to do the heavy lifting style-wise.

Most of the other advice I have read suggests that grandchild themes are NOT a good practice or even possible in all cases without a plugin.

Based on other investigations I have performed since asking this question, it seems that the best practice is a) what I am currently doing now; or b) duplicating the existing child theme for each iteration of the site and doing the customizations there.

This brings its own set of problems, related to updates to all of the *other* child theme files, but should be manageable.

So I’ve gone further with this and it seems that due to the fact that any post can have multiple categories, I have to explicitly select the menu for each post and sub-category.

I suppose it’s possible to do this in php but that’s clearly beyond the scope of this plugin and this support forum.

Thanks.

I kind of got it to work – but it raised a related question. When you choose to display a particular menu for a category, does that apply to sub-categories and posts that have that category (or a sub-category) as well?.

Basically I want to choose a blank menu universally (top level of the site) and then for each category (and its children) and all posts that have that category have it use the menu selected.

I’m kind of in the dark.