This was really awesome. So easy to follow for those of us still a little scared of php files etc. In most tutorials you half way into it and realize something is missing. But here it was just play and pause and follow along. Thanks a million !
hi, Thanks for the presentation. The plugin in my version of WordPress shows ''untested with your version of WordPress'' and may have some compatibility issues. Any solution? And when I installed, I could not see 'domain mapping' and 'domain' as mentioned in the video :(
Thank Bjorn as always. I understand why you asked the situation for Multisite, because I regret so much to have switched. I have 2 sites to build for my friends, so I set Multisite at my local wamp. But when the web finished, it's much more painful to upload to domain host server than migrating only one site. I am thinking to break to 2 independent sites. Maybe reinstall Wordpress? Whoever knows a easier way pls rescue me.
+Amy Cheng Hi Amy, I haven't tried this before, but you may be able to migrate your multisite's to individual sites. It would be a bit of a process and take some experimenting, but each site on your multisite has its own tables in the database. It also shares some core WordPress tables with all the other sites in the multisite. Each site also has its own folder containing the plugins, themes and uploads. I'm willing to bet if you setup a regular WordPress site you can import the relevant tables and the folders and have it independent. Then you would lose any of your work.
Hey thanks for making this. So I got stuck pretty quick. I added and activated WordPress MU Domain Mapping, but my settings don't have the options that you show. Instead, they consist of general, writing, reading, discussion, media, permalinks, maintenance mode, page builder. I'm still very new so I'm sure it's something quite basic. Thanks so much.
Great tutorial, thank you so much, i just have a question. If we create multiple sites in one account are they using the same database? If they do, wouldn´t that slow down the page loading time?
Can you release the updated tutorial? Love your channel. However, This is outdated. I'm trying to map my subdomains to domains I've purchased. From what I understand. I dont need the domain mapping plugin anymore. However I didn't know and watched your video and installed it. Do I have to deactivate it now? And remove the sunrise folder and code? I have domains with godaddy. And my server is through Host Gator. Am I putting the DNS A Record into Host Gator or Go Daddy? Having trouble pointing my domain name to my site
Nice tutorial. How can I do all of this in a local environment using desktop server wordpress install and multisite set up? I have a fat headache already trying to figure this thing out
Hi, thanks for this video. I am not sure whether you encountered any issue with relevance to your multisite child site dashboard not showing up meaning the "Page not found" error that is Dashboard of child site not coming up. It will be great if you do a video on that. Thanks.
Hello Bjorn, Fantastic video. Really helpful. I'm just using a multisite to set up a site with two different related sites controlled by the same dashboard. But pls tell me... (1) If I set up my site like this as a multisite, can I transfer my current site complete to one of the subdomains? (2) Can I share blogs on the sidebar from two separate subdomains?
Would you have any advice on how to get the Lets Encrypt Wildcard Certificate already installed to work on the new domain name? I have tried numerous ideas, creating additional directories adding a sub domain with same name etc all with no luck
Hi, Thanks for a great video, One question, can the two domain be managed by two different admins with separate permission? So one admin is unable to see the other site?
I have done everything and it all works until I try to add a new domain to my subsite. Once I fill it and click enter, I get the 'New Domain Added' message at the top of the screen but I am not able to see the 'Active Domains on this Blog' table. Could you help me out?
I've ran into a small problem on my multisite, my sites seem to use the wrong files, site one is using site fives and site five is using site threes as an example. any idea what could be happeing?
If you have an existing site you are ranking and the client wants the domain name changed is this the best practice to use? Or should you duplicate or migrate site to new domain? How does each option affect seo efforts?
Hi Gaynor, If it's not a multisite already then I would keep it as an independent website. Use this tutorial to migrate it manually: ua-cam.com/video/ZJED0dqEx-M/v-deo.html or use this one to migrate using a plugin: ua-cam.com/video/SkjAxA48SA8/v-deo.html&index=28&list=PLlgSvQqMfii7aN-XeBQ1qdFYsL892rAw7 Then make sure 301 redirect all the old URLs to the new URLs using the .htaccess file on the old domain. Here's a tutorial for that: ua-cam.com/video/xgWPIu8hnG8/v-deo.html&index=7&list=PLlgSvQqMfii77WdUkg680kIiFCcKKrI-H I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Thank you very much for your tutorial. One problem I am facing though is that all the content url's in the dom and newly uploaded files etc., is still the old url, and not the new mapped. Any ideas about how this could be resolved? I could do a search&replace, but for the future? :)
If the domain mapping worked successfully then all the URLs should be the new on whenever you upload new content. To search & replace the old URL you can use a tool like this one to do it manually outside of WordPress: interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ Or you could try a plugin like this one: en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/ I haven't used either but they appear to do what you need.
Help. My multisite, and it's domain, are hosted on Godaddy as well as the domain I want to map for the subsite. I added both "*" and a "@" A names. It's been over three hours and my domain home page still says, "Future Home of Something Cool". Any advice? Is there more I need to do? Do I need to change name servers?
Thanks for the video. Using a Lightsail instance. Am getting permission denied when trying to move the sunrise.php into the wp-content/ folder. Am logged in via filezilla/mobaxterm so have access (user bitnami) but anyone found a way around this?
Awesome Tutorial is really easy to follow thank you. Question is there a way to link woo commence database to multiple sites so when you update it, it updates all sites as I have a client that has multiple sites that sell very similar products on all of them. Thank you in advance
Nice tutorial, I wonder about how to handle email accounts when parked domains are used for domain mapping at a Wordpress network. Will it work just fine?
All perfect until the last bit, adding the Server IP address as an A record. Did all that but not woking. The domain CP says it is in sync. I'll wait a couple of days. But this normally works after an hour or so.
Hello Bjorn. Great video, a lot of great pointers and great solution. I do have a question however. When you map these domains together and start editing the websites, what if you wanted to remove one of the domains with their current content from the multisite to a standard single installation of wordpress, would that be possible?
Hello, thank your tutorial! It is simple and very helpful. I was wondering how domain mapping with dns A record will affect SEO and if it is possible to have ssl on that domain. Thank you in advance.
any video tutorial of how to update a new theme and its plugins in multisites? do you know if as soon as you upload the new updated theme and delete the old one if that will also update the theme plugin as well?
Hi, and thanks for many useful videos :) I have one question: I see in the video that you add a domain "without www", but how can I add a domain "with www." and direct the domain "without www" so it goes straight to the domain "with www"? Because if I add a domain "with www", then the page will not appear if I type the domain name "without www" ... (I get an error). Thanks again :)
the domain mapping does work without me changing the A-record do I need/should change the A-record anyways, because it will influence my page rank in any way?
hey ! You're awesome at Wordpress. But i need a help. Please make a video on Wordpress ecommerce (Porto Multipurpose) theme. How to customize anything on that theme. I've so many complications about that theme. So please make it easy for me. Thank You !
This is a nice tutorial, I would like to know how to apply the ssl to the main domain, the subdomains and the added custom domains? I appreciate your help on this one. Thanks in advance.
Hi Sir, Thank you alot ..you are of a much help.. i went throught every thing. and went smooth and nice till I wanted to mapp a newly bought domain when from the same host..but gives me this error : page is not working ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
In this case I would contact your hosts support to see what is causing the redirect issues. It's almost impossible to tell what's causing the problem without seeing the inner works. I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tutorial. Any idea if this works with HTTPS? For example if you had an SSL Certificate for origamifold.com would it work across all the additional mapped domains?
Hi Andrew, I haven't tried it, but my feeling is that it should work out of the box. HTTPS is simply a redirect, which is essentially what domain mapping is as well. The worst that would happen is a redirect loop is created and the site would go down until the loop is stopped...but I don't think that would happen for what you're describing.
Thanks, just subbed. What about if I don't have a wordpress multisite but have a sub domain with another wordpress site (sort of like repeating another wp installation in the subdirectory), how do I point it to another domain on godaddy?
Hello, first of all thank you for all the content you are offering, it is undoubtedly an added value for those who are learning. I have a little doubt about the process described here, is it possible to use a shared ip? Or will it be a problem? If i want to add my site to another domain, but in a subfolder, you just have to paste the path along with the domain, in this case (carlsfootwear.com/subfolder/) am I right? Thank you for your help
Hi, i might be being dumb here.. I have set up everything and it all works great! But how do I now map a domain to my original domain, i can map domains to new sites no problem but my original site is where I now want to map a domain.
That can be a bit confusing. The original domain for the main site (or the super-admin site) is added to your hosting account as an add-on domain. When you're WP Multisite was first installed you would have used that add-on domain to put the site on. Then your site will open at that URL. I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
Great tutorial and it was working until it said uncommon and add to wp-content. I did it twice and did not get a change in Domain setting on the dashboard
Hi Kuga, They don't like lots of unnecessary redirects, but often redirects are necessary. Domain redirects like this are part of life on the internet so they won't punish you for these.
Jan Carson Weatherby submitted a comment that this plug-in is for WordPress V4.5 and prior BUT for post V4.5 it may not be required. There is also a requirement in that the primary site needs to have an SSL certificate. Any chance you can post an update of this video which reflects how this is done with SSL certificate for Wordpress post V4.5 (I have V4.9.4 multisite installation)? Thanks in advance. :-)
Hey, after adding define( ‘SUNRISE’, ‘on’ ); to the wp-config file at the right line it says following: Please uncomment the line define( 'SUNRISE', 'on' ); or add it to your .../htdocs/wp-config.php Do you have an idea why it says that? Maybe some other settings in my wp config causes this error?
I've been trying this and many times it has worked in the past.. I am working with an example.info site and it is not working.. not sure if it is the instal or another problem. Any ideas?
Hi Keith, You're right, for versions since 4.5 you don't need this plugin. The set up process is a little different. I'm working on an update video for it.
WordPress Tutorials - WPLearningLab Hi, thanks for your reply. Look forward to the new video. This has confused me. I run a dedicated server and have created a new cPanel account for using with a Multisite installation. My host supported said I could just added a dummy domain when creating the new cPanel account. I then had difficulty installing Wordpress as I couldn't just enter a url for the install. The support guys said I needed to add a host file on my Mac. That worked so that I could install but then had an issue when creating site and then pointing the dns to my server, it would always pull up the error page in cpanel. Do you have to do something within cpanel so that the domains get mapped correctly to the Multisite sub site? The domain I was trying to get working is www.design-web-photography.com
Hi Kasper, I'm not sure what you mean by the "old domain". Once you add a custom domain the subdomain should be redirected to the new domain automatically. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Hello sir, this is a very good info i am looking for my situation. But i need to understand. Is this really mean that you can have two different domain with two different themes?
Yes, that's right. You can have as many unique domains and themes as you want. Visitors to those sites won't even know the sites are part of a WP multisite. WordPress.com is a WP multisite install and they run millions of sites on the same database. Anyone can buy a unique domain and use it for their site on WordPress.com. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Why i received the following error, when following your steps? "Please uncomment the line define( 'SUNRISE', 'on' ); or add it to your /home/xxxxxxxxx/public_html/demo/wp-config.php "
Hello i have 2 problem and i hope that you can help me to resolve them 1-/ for exemple I have a website built with wordpress ex:(www.mysite.com) i use amp plugin for mobile optimization and i want to redirect all mobile users from (www .mysite .com/amp) to (m.mysite .com) . is this need multisite version websiteor is it possible to point the same root website folder to 2 diffirent domain 2-/ i want to create a subdomain called (blog. mysite. com) and i want to all my wordpress articles will be shown on this subdomain is there a solution to point the urls ( mysite. com/blog/ ) ---to--> ( blog.mysite .com ) without creating an other site thankyou.
Have you tried what I presented in the tutorial? If you did, but it didn't work right Hostgator may require a wildcard subdomain to be created. Which is just a subdomain of *.
I have added the wildcard of my network site but as soon as I add the url to domain mapping primary url, I get a loop. I have my domains in hostgator redirecting to the subdirectory page of my network site. Is there a better way to do this without getting into a loading loop?
I think I should be usin multi-site for my MDBLE.mobi site. I have seen the option during installation and thought I had selected multi site but did not know a plugin was needed. How do I check if my install is multi site? If not, how do I convert an existing install to multi site? Also, I'm on a GoDaddy VPS and need suggestions for CentOS, Apache and WHM software versions and configuration. Do you have videos for these topics? If not please help.
Hi Peter, If you are running a multisite you will see a "My Sites" link in the very top left of your WordPress admin. If that's not there, then you probably don't Multisite Installed. You can convert an existing site to a multisite by following the instructions in this video starting at 4 minutes and 55 seconds: ua-cam.com/video/CpFGRCj2R9g/v-deo.html&list=PLlgSvQqMfii644KDLQqh0Zt0hPhmmzIem&t=295 The video we're commenting on (domain mapping for multisite) isn't required for a multisite. This plugin is designed to allow you to use unique domains for each site. On a regular multisite you can create as many subdomains or subdirectories as you need, just no unique domain names. The GoDaddy VPS doesn't come pre-loaded with a Apache, MySQL, and WHM so that you can run your site?
Thank you for your comments and resources. I'm a graduate student with no budget, so I have to learn and do this myself. I really appreciate your help.
I'm using a GoDaddy Managed VPS, CentOS 6.9, Easy Apache 3, WHM, 3 IPs and I have lot's of domains. I want to rebuild the server for WordPress Multisite optimization, ecommerce for consulting & hosting fees and non-profit donations. There are three main sites: a LLC, a Hosting site for Mobile Learning and my Dissertation research site. Currently using a custom theme for my research project that can be used as the main mobile learning theme. What is the best way to accomplish my goals using WPMU? Pete
+RNRMEDIAGROUP What a coincidence! I just recorded a tutorial for that a few days ago. It's still in editing, but I can outline the process for you. If you view the source of any page on your site and search for it will turn up all the elements that aren't being loaded securely. These are usually things like images and JS and CSS files. Here's what I do to fix it: 1. Install the Really Simple SSL plugin and activate it. Backup your site and database first if you want to be extra safe. That should fix some of the issues and sometimes all of them... 2. If you don't have the green padlock after activating the plugin, view the site source and search for again. It will likely only turn up only images this time. Find those images in your Wordpress admin and either change the to manually or reload the images from your media library. These images may be found in the theme options for your theme, in posts and pages, in widgets, hard coded in the template files, etc. The bottom line is if you change all instances of to you'll have the green padlock. I hope that helps, let me know how it goes!
I was fllowing step by step above but I got error: "404 Not Found The resource requested could not be found on this server!" Please give me some advice!!
It sounds like you need to reset your .htaccess file. Go to Settings then Permalinks. Scroll to the bottom of the Permalinks page without making any changes and click on Save. That should fix the redirect issue. Let me know if that helps!
Hi Loys, In the latest versions of WordPress you don't need the domain mapping plugin any more. There's more info about it here: codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Multisite_Domain_Mapping I'm in the process of creating a new tutorial for the updated method. I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
I have problem and can not understated it is mapping problem or not. i have WordPress multiste site network. I have Map Custom Domain , make a record. what is problem: i can open site www.test.com www.test.com www.test.com but i can not open my site if i type test.com or test.com (screenshoot ibb.co/dz8o7H) what can be problem
Hi Herman, That is possible only if you set up a multisite to use subdomains. You cannot do this with regular WP installs without some very advanced coding. I hope that helps and thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any further questions :)
@@wplearninglabMultisite meaning domain, subdomain and a another folder inside the phpadmin.. not sure. Do you have a tutorial for that purpose. I'm trying to save how many databases because I'm limited to 25. Thanks.
I do have a tutorial for that, here it is: ua-cam.com/video/CpFGRCj2R9g/v-deo.html With a WordPress multisite you can have as many WordPress as you want running on one database. Each site does not have its own folder in the phpMyAdmin because each folder is a new database. Each new site in the multisite setup has it databse tables added to a multisite database. I hope that helps, please let me know if you have any further questions :)
Hi Osborn, yes, it should. There is a new method that I'm making a video for, but this one should still work. I hope that helps and thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any further questions :)
Thank you for the video. I have being trying to solve an issue, I would like you to help me I used domain mapping on my multisite as directed by you in this video but I can't access the mapped domain except i use the full URL (mappeddomain.com) or (testing.primarydomain.com). So basically I can't use (mappeddomain.com) or (testing.example.com); if I do it will redirect to (primarydomain.com) Please how can I solve this issue? Thank you
The first thing I would try is resetting the permalinks on the main multi-site and on the mapped site. Go to Settings then Permalinks. Scroll to the bottom of the Permalinks page without making any changes and click on Save. Do that on both sites and see if that fixes the issue.
Greetings to you, i must confess that my sites are healthy today because of your tutorials. I did reset the permalinks on each sites but the situation still persists. I saw one of your videos where you thought about solving a 301 redirect using the .htaccess in the web root folder. I'm also thinking if i can force each sub-domain to use HTTPS using this lines of code in the .htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub-domain-that-redirects\.com [NC] RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.subdomain-that-redirects.com/$1 [R,L] This code will be repeated for each subdomain Please remember that the subdomains won't redirect if they have https included in the domain name but will redirects to primary domain if you use subdomain without https Please what do you think about is it workable, can use it or its all crap :) Please suggest a workable solution Thank you very much
This was really awesome. So easy to follow for those of us still a little scared of php files etc. In most tutorials you half way into it and realize something is missing. But here it was just play and pause and follow along. Thanks a million !
+Cato Zachrisen Hi Cato, that is my goal for all my videos, no steps skipped :)
Thanks for watching!
Such Great explanation although I knew all about domain mapping still I like to watch your videos.
Sorry for my delay in responding!
Thanks Vishal and thanks for watching!
That is exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you!
Cool! I'm happy I could help. Thanks for watching!
your teaching videos are simply fantastic!!!!
Thanks Martin! I do my best :)
Well your best then ...helps all of us. And we are thankful
@@wplearninglab
I'm happy to hear it! 😄
Happy 2024 ! wow 6 years ago.... Update! You Rock!
Would love to see you create an updated video that doesn't require this depreciated plugin.
hi, Thanks for the presentation. The plugin in my version of WordPress shows ''untested with your version of WordPress'' and may have some compatibility issues. Any solution? And when I installed, I could not see 'domain mapping' and 'domain' as mentioned in the video :(
Thank Bjorn as always.
I understand why you asked the situation for Multisite, because I regret so much to have switched. I have 2 sites to build for my friends, so I set Multisite at my local wamp. But when the web finished, it's much more painful to upload to domain host server than migrating only one site.
I am thinking to break to 2 independent sites. Maybe reinstall Wordpress? Whoever knows a easier way pls rescue me.
+Amy Cheng Hi Amy, I haven't tried this before, but you may be able to migrate your multisite's to individual sites. It would be a bit of a process and take some experimenting, but each site on your multisite has its own tables in the database. It also shares some core WordPress tables with all the other sites in the multisite. Each site also has its own folder containing the plugins, themes and uploads.
I'm willing to bet if you setup a regular WordPress site you can import the relevant tables and the folders and have it independent. Then you would lose any of your work.
Hey thanks for making this. So I got stuck pretty quick. I added and activated WordPress MU Domain Mapping, but my settings don't have the options that you show. Instead, they consist of general, writing, reading, discussion, media, permalinks, maintenance mode, page builder. I'm still very new so I'm sure it's something quite basic. Thanks so much.
Very good explanation video. Congratulations!
Thanks Beat and thanks for watching!
Great tutorial, thank you so much, i just have a question. If we create multiple sites in one account are they using the same database? If they do, wouldn´t that slow down the page loading time?
Can you release the updated tutorial? Love your channel. However, This is outdated. I'm trying to map my subdomains to domains I've purchased. From what I understand. I dont need the domain mapping plugin anymore. However I didn't know and watched your video and installed it. Do I have to deactivate it now? And remove the sunrise folder and code?
I have domains with godaddy. And my server is through Host Gator. Am I putting the DNS A Record into Host Gator or Go Daddy? Having trouble pointing my domain name to my site
Nice tutorial. How can I do all of this in a local environment using desktop server wordpress install and multisite set up? I have a fat headache already trying to figure this thing out
can you make a video on how to set up a VPS with WordPress Multisite on OpenLiteSpeed with Ubuntu 20.04 ?
That's pretty specific, I'll see if it's feasible. Thanks for the suggestion!
Thank you for the simple instructions.
Hi, thanks for this video.
I am not sure whether you encountered any issue with relevance to your multisite child site dashboard not showing up meaning the "Page not found" error that is Dashboard of child site not coming up. It will be great if you do a video on that. Thanks.
Hello Bjorn, Fantastic video. Really helpful. I'm just using a multisite to set up a site with two different related sites controlled by the same dashboard. But pls tell me...
(1) If I set up my site like this as a multisite, can I transfer my current site complete to one of the subdomains?
(2) Can I share blogs on the sidebar from two separate subdomains?
Perfect, exactly what I was looking for!!
Would you have any advice on how to get the Lets Encrypt Wildcard Certificate already installed to work on the new domain name? I have tried numerous ideas, creating additional directories adding a sub domain with same name etc all with no luck
Hi, Thanks for a great video,
One question, can the two domain be managed by two different admins with separate permission? So one admin is unable to see the other site?
Yes, this is a major benefit for WP Multisite
What URL will appear on google the Domain or the original subdomain? And what about AdSense and Analytics I just do I just set the domain name also?
you are great! Thanks for your tutorials. It it easy!
Did you get it sorted
I have done everything and it all works until I try to add a new domain to my subsite. Once I fill it and click enter, I get the 'New Domain Added' message at the top of the screen but I am not able to see the 'Active Domains on this Blog' table. Could you help me out?
I've ran into a small problem on my multisite, my sites seem to use the wrong files, site one is using site fives and site five is using site threes as an example. any idea what could be happeing?
Thanks for sharing! But how wordpress multisite affect speed page of each site in the PageSpeed Insight results?
How do you make sure your SSL certificate covers the new domain name? Or is there a video on that?
if you found anything on this Josh - please reply
@joshgreene10 @wplearninglab good point
If you have an existing site you are ranking and the client wants the domain name changed is this the best practice to use? Or should you duplicate or migrate site to new domain? How does each option affect seo efforts?
Hi Gaynor,
If it's not a multisite already then I would keep it as an independent website.
Use this tutorial to migrate it manually: ua-cam.com/video/ZJED0dqEx-M/v-deo.html
or use this one to migrate using a plugin: ua-cam.com/video/SkjAxA48SA8/v-deo.html&index=28&list=PLlgSvQqMfii7aN-XeBQ1qdFYsL892rAw7
Then make sure 301 redirect all the old URLs to the new URLs using the .htaccess file on the old domain. Here's a tutorial for that: ua-cam.com/video/xgWPIu8hnG8/v-deo.html&index=7&list=PLlgSvQqMfii77WdUkg680kIiFCcKKrI-H
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Thank you very much for your tutorial. One problem I am facing though is that all the content url's in the dom and newly uploaded files etc., is still the old url, and not the new mapped. Any ideas about how this could be resolved? I could do a search&replace, but for the future? :)
If the domain mapping worked successfully then all the URLs should be the new on whenever you upload new content.
To search & replace the old URL you can use a tool like this one to do it manually outside of WordPress: interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
Or you could try a plugin like this one: en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/search-and-replace/
I haven't used either but they appear to do what you need.
Help. My multisite, and it's domain, are hosted on Godaddy as well as the domain I want to map for the subsite. I added both "*" and a "@" A names. It's been over three hours and my domain home page still says, "Future Home of Something Cool". Any advice? Is there more I need to do? Do I need to change name servers?
Thanks for the video. Using a Lightsail instance. Am getting permission denied when trying to move the sunrise.php into the wp-content/ folder. Am logged in via filezilla/mobaxterm so have access (user bitnami) but anyone found a way around this?
Awesome Tutorial is really easy to follow thank you. Question is there a way to link woo commence database to multiple sites so when you update it, it updates all sites as I have a client that has multiple sites that sell very similar products on all of them. Thank you in advance
Thanks. That's very useful. Woth trying.
I am using multisite for my own eCommerce network base worldwide
Nice tutorial, I wonder about how to handle email accounts when parked domains are used for domain mapping at a Wordpress network. Will it work just fine?
Just a question : Do we need hosting account that support addon domains ? Because my hosting support only single domain .
All perfect until the last bit, adding the Server IP address as an A record. Did all that but not woking. The domain CP says it is in sync. I'll wait a couple of days. But this normally works after an hour or so.
Hello Bjorn. Great video, a lot of great pointers and great solution. I do have a question however.
When you map these domains together and start editing the websites, what if you wanted to remove one of the domains with their current content from the multisite to a standard single installation of wordpress, would that be possible?
can you please tell me a way how to host a multi site live. i have a domain name purchased already
This is a great video! But does anyone know if this is still necessary or the best way?
Very well explained
Thanks Dawood and thanks for watching!
Hello, thank your tutorial! It is simple and very helpful. I was wondering how domain mapping with dns A record will affect SEO and if it is possible to have ssl on that domain. Thank you in advance.
any video tutorial of how to update a new theme and its plugins in multisites?
do you know if as soon as you upload the new updated theme and delete the old one if that will also update the theme plugin as well?
Great video Bjorn. Do I need multiple SSL certificates to build multiple #ecommerce sites with #multisite?
Hi, and thanks for many useful videos :)
I have one question: I see in the video that you add a domain "without www", but how can I add a domain "with www." and direct the domain "without www" so it goes straight to the domain "with www"? Because if I add a domain "with www", then the page will not appear if I type the domain name "without www" ... (I get an error). Thanks again :)
i tried ths plugin in 2024 and it broke my website thanks
i have 2 checkout page in my website for 2 different stores i want both stores one checkout how can i do ???
please help any know this please help me
the domain mapping does work without me changing the A-record
do I need/should change the A-record anyways, because it will influence my page rank in any way?
hey ! You're awesome at Wordpress. But i need a help. Please make a video on Wordpress ecommerce (Porto Multipurpose) theme. How to customize anything on that theme. I've so many complications about that theme. So please make it easy for me. Thank You !
This is a nice tutorial, I would like to know how to apply the ssl to the main domain, the subdomains and the added custom domains?
I appreciate your help on this one. Thanks in advance.
Awesome tutorial!
Wordpress 4.5+ now has domain mapping as a native feature under sites > edit > aliases.
Hello how can we do domain mapping in multisite on shared server with direct admin control panel
Hi Sir, Thank you alot ..you are of a much help.. i went throught every thing. and went smooth and nice till I wanted to mapp a newly bought domain when from the same host..but gives me this error : page is not working ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
In this case I would contact your hosts support to see what is causing the redirect issues. It's almost impossible to tell what's causing the problem without seeing the inner works.
I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
Good video done! Thanks
can the domain name be in .pk? since wordpress doesnt support .pk domains - i think
Thanks for the tutorial. Any idea if this works with HTTPS? For example if you had an SSL Certificate for origamifold.com would it work across all the additional mapped domains?
Hi Andrew,
I haven't tried it, but my feeling is that it should work out of the box. HTTPS is simply a redirect, which is essentially what domain mapping is as well. The worst that would happen is a redirect loop is created and the site would go down until the loop is stopped...but I don't think that would happen for what you're describing.
Thank you. This was very helpful
You're welcome Persey, thanks for watching!
Thanks, just subbed. What about if I don't have a wordpress multisite but have a sub domain with another wordpress site (sort of like repeating another wp installation in the subdirectory), how do I point it to another domain on godaddy?
Thanks for the sub! Are you using GoDaddy to host the site or are you hosting somewhere else?
Great video! Thank you!
Hello, first of all thank you for all the content you are offering, it is undoubtedly an added value for those who are learning.
I have a little doubt about the process described here, is it possible to use a shared ip? Or will it be a problem?
If i want to
add my site to another domain, but in a subfolder, you just have to
paste the path along with the domain, in this case
(carlsfootwear.com/subfolder/) am I right?
Thank you for your help
Hi, thanks for the video... what about SSL? how use it?
Hi, i might be being dumb here.. I have set up everything and it all works great! But how do I now map a domain to my original domain, i can map domains to new sites no problem but my original site is where I now want to map a domain.
That can be a bit confusing. The original domain for the main site (or the super-admin site) is added to your hosting account as an add-on domain. When you're WP Multisite was first installed you would have used that add-on domain to put the site on. Then your site will open at that URL.
I hope that helps :) Let me know if you have any further questions. Thanks for watching!
you are the best im a superfan
Thanks for being a superfan Albi! Thanks for watching and let me know if you have any questions :)
Is there a way we can have SSL for subdomain or matter of fact SSLs for custom domains different than the primary domain?
Hey did you figure out the solution to this?
Why is my WordPress don't have 'sites' menu that show domain and subdomain
Great tutorial and it was working until it said uncommon and add to wp-content. I did it twice and did not get a change in Domain setting on the dashboard
did you get it to work in the end?
Is there any solution for same login with different domains in multisite
It's not working, can you help, will this work on shared hosting
Is it compatible with latest WP6.0 ?
Would this have an effect on Google ranking of page in any way? I understand they don't like redirects
Hi Kuga,
They don't like lots of unnecessary redirects, but often redirects are necessary. Domain redirects like this are part of life on the internet so they won't punish you for these.
Do we need super admin for this?
Will it support ssl configuration?
Jan Carson Weatherby submitted a comment that this plug-in is for WordPress V4.5 and prior BUT for post V4.5 it may not be required. There is also a requirement in that the primary site needs to have an SSL certificate. Any chance you can post an update of this video which reflects how this is done with SSL certificate for Wordpress post V4.5 (I have V4.9.4 multisite installation)? Thanks in advance. :-)
Yes, Jan is correct and I have a video update in the works :)
Is that update video out yet?
Hey,
after adding define( ‘SUNRISE’, ‘on’ );
to the wp-config file at the right line it says following:
Please uncomment the line define( 'SUNRISE', 'on' ); or add it to your .../htdocs/wp-config.php
Do you have an idea why it says that? Maybe some other settings in my wp config causes this error?
you have it in the middle of /* */ just get it out of there.
I've been trying this and many times it has worked in the past.. I am working with an example.info site and it is not working.. not sure if it is the instal or another problem. Any ideas?
thanks....I needed that :) subscribed
THANK YOU SIR
Hi, great video. I believe domain mapping is part of Wordpress Multisites since version 4.5 . Is it still necessary then to use this plugin?
Hi Keith,
You're right, for versions since 4.5 you don't need this plugin. The set up process is a little different. I'm working on an update video for it.
WordPress Tutorials - WPLearningLab Hi, thanks for your reply. Look forward to the new video. This has confused me. I run a dedicated server and have created a new cPanel account for using with a Multisite installation. My host supported said I could just added a dummy domain when creating the new cPanel account. I then had difficulty installing Wordpress as I couldn't just enter a url for the install. The support guys said I needed to add a host file on my Mac. That worked so that I could install but then had an issue when creating site and then pointing the dns to my server, it would always pull up the error page in cpanel. Do you have to do something within cpanel so that the domains get mapped correctly to the Multisite sub site? The domain I was trying to get working is www.design-web-photography.com
Is the old domain name removed? I think that would be good to only have one link to a page for SEO! Thank you
Hi Kasper,
I'm not sure what you mean by the "old domain". Once you add a custom domain the subdomain should be redirected to the new domain automatically.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
Hello sir, this is a very good info i am looking for my situation. But i need to understand. Is this really mean that you can have two different domain with two different themes?
Yes, that's right. You can have as many unique domains and themes as you want. Visitors to those sites won't even know the sites are part of a WP multisite.
WordPress.com is a WP multisite install and they run millions of sites on the same database. Anyone can buy a unique domain and use it for their site on WordPress.com.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
I do not get a domain mapping option under tools. Anybody else have this problem?
Why i received the following error, when following your steps? "Please uncomment the line define( 'SUNRISE', 'on' ); or add it to your /home/xxxxxxxxx/public_html/demo/wp-config.php "
YOU STAR! THANKYOU!!!
You're a star Jack! You're welcome and thanks for watching!
Thankyou though! I have been on and off this since July 2017 and every tutorial has not worked. Thankyou! I have subbed!
Thanks for the sub Jack, much appreciated!
Does it still work for 2024?
Hello i have 2 problem and i hope that you can help me to resolve them
1-/ for exemple I have a website built with wordpress ex:(www.mysite.com)
i use amp plugin for mobile optimization and i want to redirect all mobile
users from (www .mysite .com/amp) to (m.mysite .com) . is this need multisite version websiteor is it possible to point the same root website folder to 2 diffirent domain
2-/ i want to create a subdomain called (blog. mysite. com) and i want to all my wordpress articles will be shown on this subdomain
is there a solution to point the urls ( mysite. com/blog/ ) ---to--> ( blog.mysite .com ) without creating an other site
thankyou.
Thank you !
how do you do this on hostgator? I tried their support but got nowhere... Could really use your help
Have you tried what I presented in the tutorial? If you did, but it didn't work right Hostgator may require a wildcard subdomain to be created. Which is just a subdomain of *.
I have added the wildcard of my network site but as soon as I add the url to domain mapping primary url, I get a loop. I have my domains in hostgator redirecting to the subdirectory page of my network site. Is there a better way to do this without getting into a loading loop?
Outstanding!
Thanks, thanks for watching!
I think I should be usin multi-site for my MDBLE.mobi site. I have seen the option during installation and thought I had selected multi site but did not know a plugin was needed.
How do I check if my install is multi site? If not, how do I convert an existing install to multi site?
Also, I'm on a GoDaddy VPS and need suggestions for CentOS, Apache and WHM software versions and configuration. Do you have videos for these topics? If not please help.
Hi Peter,
If you are running a multisite you will see a "My Sites" link in the very top left of your WordPress admin. If that's not there, then you probably don't Multisite Installed.
You can convert an existing site to a multisite by following the instructions in this video starting at 4 minutes and 55 seconds: ua-cam.com/video/CpFGRCj2R9g/v-deo.html&list=PLlgSvQqMfii644KDLQqh0Zt0hPhmmzIem&t=295
The video we're commenting on (domain mapping for multisite) isn't required for a multisite. This plugin is designed to allow you to use unique domains for each site. On a regular multisite you can create as many subdomains or subdirectories as you need, just no unique domain names.
The GoDaddy VPS doesn't come pre-loaded with a Apache, MySQL, and WHM so that you can run your site?
Thank you for your comments and resources. I'm a graduate student with no budget, so I have to learn and do this myself. I really appreciate your help.
I'm using a GoDaddy Managed VPS, CentOS 6.9, Easy Apache 3, WHM, 3 IPs and I have lot's of domains.
I want to rebuild the server for WordPress Multisite optimization, ecommerce for consulting & hosting fees and non-profit donations.
There are three main sites: a LLC, a Hosting site for Mobile Learning and my Dissertation research site. Currently using a custom theme for my research project that can be used as the main mobile learning theme.
What is the best way to accomplish my goals using WPMU?
Pete
Hi question... how do keep the Secure SSL from showing up as not secure? Thanks for this video helps alot!
+RNRMEDIAGROUP Do you mean you don't have the green padlock in the address bar and there's a message saying some elements may not be secure?
Thats exactly what I mean..
+RNRMEDIAGROUP What a coincidence! I just recorded a tutorial for that a few days ago. It's still in editing, but I can outline the process for you.
If you view the source of any page on your site and search for it will turn up all the elements that aren't being loaded securely.
These are usually things like images and JS and CSS files.
Here's what I do to fix it:
1. Install the Really Simple SSL plugin and activate it. Backup your site and database first if you want to be extra safe.
That should fix some of the issues and sometimes all of them...
2. If you don't have the green padlock after activating the plugin, view the site source and search for again.
It will likely only turn up only images this time.
Find those images in your Wordpress admin and either change the to manually or reload the images from your media library.
These images may be found in the theme options for your theme, in posts and pages, in widgets, hard coded in the template files, etc.
The bottom line is if you change all instances of to you'll have the green padlock.
I hope that helps, let me know how it goes!
thanks for your response. I already have ssl's purchased for my domains, just not the domain I mapped, so it seems cpanel wants me to buy one.
+RNRMEDIAGROUP That makes sense. You have to have an active SSL for each domain.
Is there a way to do this without using a plugin...
I was fllowing step by step above but I got error: "404
Not Found
The resource requested could not be found on this server!" Please give me some advice!!
It sounds like you need to reset your .htaccess file.
Go to Settings then Permalinks. Scroll to the bottom of the Permalinks page without making any changes and click on Save. That should fix the redirect issue.
Let me know if that helps!
Is there an alternative plugin to wordpress mu domain mapping? It says it's untested with my version of WordPress.
Hi Loys,
In the latest versions of WordPress you don't need the domain mapping plugin any more. There's more info about it here: codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Multisite_Domain_Mapping
I'm in the process of creating a new tutorial for the updated method.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching!
@@wplearninglab great job, wanted to know the same as well. Is the updated video available? cheers!
@@wplearninglab Hey there wassup. Eagerly waiting for this video! Is it expected any time soon?
Good friend in my wp-admin I have created the sub domain but I do not get the window sites
+christian lillo Hi Christian, did you add the special code the website generates to your htaccess and wp-config file?
I have problem and can not understated it is mapping problem or not. i have WordPress multiste site network. I have Map Custom Domain , make a record. what is problem: i can open site www.test.com www.test.com www.test.com but i can not open my site if i type test.com or test.com (screenshoot ibb.co/dz8o7H) what can be problem
Thank you
You're welcome Adesola, thanks for watching!
Is it POSSIBLE TO CREATE SUBDOMAIN with same database as main domain.
Thank you.
Hi Herman,
That is possible only if you set up a multisite to use subdomains.
You cannot do this with regular WP installs without some very advanced coding.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any further questions :)
@@wplearninglabMultisite meaning domain, subdomain and a another folder inside the phpadmin.. not sure. Do you have a tutorial for that purpose. I'm trying to save how many databases because I'm limited to 25. Thanks.
I do have a tutorial for that, here it is: ua-cam.com/video/CpFGRCj2R9g/v-deo.html
With a WordPress multisite you can have as many WordPress as you want running on one database.
Each site does not have its own folder in the phpMyAdmin because each folder is a new database.
Each new site in the multisite setup has it databse tables added to a multisite database.
I hope that helps, please let me know if you have any further questions :)
Can you make a tutorial on how to migrate a subsite from WP multsite to single site
Hi Rohan,
That's a great tutorial idea. I've added it to my list. Thanks for the suggestion!
does this domain mapping system still work with current version of wordpress?
Hi Osborn, yes, it should. There is a new method that I'm making a video for, but this one should still work.
I hope that helps and thanks for watching! Let me know if you have any further questions :)
@@wplearninglab I'm looking forward to the new video using the new method for domain mapping. Any idea when you'll be uploading it?
So I do not get into the mappin domain configuration
Thank you for the video. I have being trying to solve an issue, I would like you to help me
I used domain mapping on my multisite as directed by you in this video but I can't access the mapped domain except i use the full URL (mappeddomain.com) or (testing.primarydomain.com). So basically I can't use (mappeddomain.com) or (testing.example.com); if I do it will redirect to (primarydomain.com)
Please how can I solve this issue?
Thank you
The first thing I would try is resetting the permalinks on the main multi-site and on the mapped site. Go to Settings then Permalinks. Scroll to the bottom of the Permalinks page without making any changes and click on Save. Do that on both sites and see if that fixes the issue.
WordPress Tutorials - WPLearningLab thank you I will do that now...
Greetings to you, i must confess that my sites are healthy today because of your tutorials.
I did reset the permalinks on each sites but the situation still persists. I saw one of your videos where you thought about solving a 301 redirect using the .htaccess in the web root folder.
I'm also thinking if i can force each sub-domain to use HTTPS using this lines of code in the .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^sub-domain-that-redirects\.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.subdomain-that-redirects.com/$1 [R,L]
This code will be repeated for each subdomain
Please remember that the subdomains won't redirect if they have https included in the domain name but will redirects to primary domain if you use subdomain without https
Please what do you think about is it workable, can use it or its all crap :)
Please suggest a workable solution
Thank you very much