Ming Sheu

That’s not really enough information to give a specific response. In general a CDN and multiple hostnames should be beneficial to site performance.

Parallelized download across multiple hostnames, https://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/rtt.html#ParallelizeDownloads

In your personal situation, how do you determine if something is worth doing or using?

As Jan pointed out, using a child theme is always the preferred method for customizing themes.

At a quick glance it looks like you need to change the .hentry margins for your theme.

.hentry {
margin: 0 0 48px 0;
}

I’m guessing 48px is not what you want.

Sure, no problem.

I don’t know your skill level so hopefully the reference links are good enough to get you started.

If you want that level of control, I would recommend swapping out the wp_list_pages code with the following.

register_nav_menu or register_nav_menus

You would put the register_nav_menu(s) in your child theme functions.php file.

wp_nav_menu

Once registered, you would call wp_nav_menu in header.php

To configure what and how items are displayed, go to Admin -> Appearance -> Menus

I’ve never used that theme but it looks like it’s just using wp_list_pages for the top menu.

Since you are already using a child theme I’m assuming you know at least a bit of code.

Look in header.php in the child theme for

wp_list_pages('title_li=');

Replace that with

wp_list_pages('include=1,2,3&title_li=');

Change 1,2,3 to the ID of the pages you want to include in the menu.

That should give you what you want.

Not knowing how your network is setup, it’s hard to say what the right code should be. But, your problem is with

# RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^.*/files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

The post and image you provided as an example has would actually match the rule that is commented out and will not match the rule that is currently active. Is there a reason why it’s setup that way?

I agree with Ipstenu. The initial setup will be troublesome but based on your responses multisite sounds like a good fit for you.

Have you done an analysis of your current blog presentation and how you want the new presentation to be? What I am asking is purely on the front-end, user interface, user experience, etc. Determine what you need or want.

Taxonomy? What is your ideal taxonomy going forward? Categories, sub-categories, tags, etc.

Media strategy? Do you want readers to be isolated into “columns/bogs” or do you want more of a free flow of information and cross navigation?

Itemized features? About Author, widgets, feeds, etc. What do you need, what is shared, what is custom per column/blog.

Publishing workflow? What is your publishing workflow? Authors and Editors? Comment moderation, etc?

These are just some high level questions off the top of my head that should be considered before determining the blog platform/configuration. Based on what information you have presented so far, I’m not sure I would be able to make determination as to use Multisite or not.

If you set a title on a page or post then that will take precedence over the title template. I believe that is the intended behavior.

Do you have a test site or can you disable other plugins? Maybe something is conflicting with the pagination values?

From the sound of things, SEO titles is working but the %%page%% and %pagenumber%% tags are not.

Just %%pagenumber%% doesn’t work or nothing works? Have you tried %%title%% | %%sitename%% to see if that works?

Have you looked at the template settings in the WordPress SEO -> Titles page?

There are a couple of options of pagination in the title and meta description fields.

Look towards the bottom of the page.

It depends on how you have your site setup.

Do you have an input field for Admin -> SEO -> Titles -> Homepage -> Title template:

Enter the pattern you want or a literal string of the value you want.

Or, does it link you to a page you have setup as your static homepage?

I believe on the page field you have to enter the literal string value.

Now that you have the setting checked in the Theme options, try setting the WordPress SEO options. They should work now.

Ok, so I think here’s the issue and you have some options

1) There is no way to turn off just the title rewrite for WordPress SEO

a) Even if you leave the title template field empty it will rewrite the title

2) Your template is appending values to wp_title()

a) To overcome this, you can enable “Force rewrite titles” however this feature is a little buggy and doesn’t address themes that have new lines in the title tag

3) It looks like you are using the Weaver theme

a) If you are, look for a setting for SEO plugin friendly titles. I didn’t install the theme but from header code it looks like there’s a setting to use wp_title() which would work with WordPress SEO

I hope that all made sense.