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Thanks for asking my first question @antermoia I’ll be following your thread with interest…

Me three! ?????♀?

As this is a commercial theme, you’re better to address that question to Gavick themselves via their support forums.

While Multisite can work in the kind of instance your’e talking about, it may also be useful to have a look at the WPML plugin that caters to multi language instances. While your content is presumably all in english the functionality it provides creates a base website common to all but allows you to create multiple ‘language’ versions of the same page content which seems to be more of what you need than in structured, separate sites.

https://wpdude.com/case-study-creating-multiple-territory-website

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/205156/how-can-i-have-different-content-for-different-countries

https://maddisondesigns.com/2014/11/creating-multilingual-site-wpml/

The error is actually saying there’s a space required, not that you have an incorrect white space. So run your feed through the feed validator here https://validator.w3.org/feed/ and see where the attribute is that’s missing the space, that should steer you in the direction of where to fix it in the templates of the site that’s causing the error to show. (Here’s a reference to a similar issue – https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11691962/xml-schema-error-required-white-space-was-missing )

This may help – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/link-to-primary-site?replies=7#post-1784114

There are a couple of plugins available at WPMU that will help you with this, Autoblog and/or Recent Global Posts. I’ve also used Threewp Broadcast (free here in the repo) but that has a little more editorial control, as in the author has to manually broadcast the story back to the parent. So you’d have to do a bit of research trying these out to see which one works for you.

I think you’re talking about the black toolbar across the top of your site. If so, have you logged out of /wp-admin? Can you log back in and see if it reappears? Have you turned off the toolbar in your Admin/User settings for your profile? Have you installed a plugin that may have interfered with it? If you’ve turned it off in the settings there’s a tip over at the Easy WP Guide https://easywpguide.com/wordpress-manual/dashboard/toolbar/hiding-the-toolbar/ which of course you can use in reverse to turn the toolbar back on, or check that one of your plugin additions hasn’t interfered with it. So turn off all your plugins, see if it reappears and then turn the plugins back on one by one to see which one is causing the problem.

Have you thought about setting your site up as a WordPress Multisite? that way you’re only using one instance of WP, there are separate tables for each site.

You have a couple of options. Database search and replace plugins can scan the db and see where there are instances of the url for your files you can then manually edit. The other useful plugin is the Broken Links Checker plugin. Once you remove the file then that plugin will scan the database and identify any links to that image or file and you can use that plugin to resolve the missing link, de-link or create a redirect to where you’d like the link to go instead.

I would deactivate all the plugins and then turn them on, one by one to see which one is causing the issue. In my experience it’s usually a plugin that’s the culprit.

The code you link to makes the function available throughout the network but it won’t show up anywhere until you actually call that function in your theme.

So in effect, to put that code output on the front page of your parent site, you just call the function (in that example it’sb5f_print_recent_posts(); ) on whichever template is outputting the page you want this code to show on.

The only challenge from my perspective is that such code allows anyone to post to your parent site, you have no editorial control.

There’s a plugin in the repo called threewp-broadcast that allows sharing between sites and their children and I’ve used this to good effect on multisites. It may not be quite what you want but it’s a good thing to look at to get your head around what you need.

Have a look in the plugin repository, there is at least one plugin there that will allow you to connect to an external database using the WP User credentials in your WP site (assuming you can create a similar user with the same name/password in the external db as well). I haven’t tried it, but there are people doing such things so start there and see how far you get.

Hi Jacetc,

I think your best port of call for help would be to address your question to the company you bought the theme from and ask in their forums as it’s difficult for us to be able to advise on issues related to premium themes.

The logo isn’t a background image it’s a block element, so if you’re putting any other code in that div will need to move around that. If it were me I’d be putting my new content in a new div and tweaking the CSS to make the new div work around the Logo. Here’s a working example.

<div class="col grid_12_of_12 site-title">
				<h1 style="
    width: auto;
"><a href="https://revolutionhtx.com/" title="Revolution Church" rel="home">
                                  							<img src="https://revolutionhtx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/motto-logo1.png" height="155"80"" width="380"300"" alt="">

											</a>
<div class="new-header-block"><h3>This is my new text</h3></div></h1>
			</div>

//This is what's in the css
.new-header-block {
display: inline-block;
position: absolute;
margin-left: 5%;
top: 50%;
}

Here’s a link to what this looks like Image in Evernonte