Renaming in Multisite / Network installation

Hi,

Some media are used in more than one subsite of the multisite installation. Will MFR fix broken links on all subsites still when media is only on one? The img src tag is the same on all subsites (e.g. /wp-content/upload/helloworld.png).

It depends on how it’s built, but I guess that yes, those links would be broken. It’s not really natural to have media entries hosted by one site, and used by another; all the sites are actually considered “different”, they are just on the same network, sharing the same plugins and themes in terms of code, but their databases are completely different, and their own.

So yes, unfortunately I doubt it will work. And making this work would be rather very complicated ??

Hi,
thanks for your answer.

One possible use-case is when one site hosts photos for the other. A second when all sites are from the same owner to split topics (brands) and needed plugins … like it is on our multisite. We use it to split LMS, webinar hosting, … which all are heavy plugins but doesn’t have to be loaded on all sites. Multisite concept can be used different but it’s allways the same installation and the same domain.

The implementation is simple and can be done by at least three ways:
1. There is a plugin to share media over multisite (we don’t use that)
2. Use an absolute link like <img src="https://domain.tld/..." />
3. Use a short form of 2. <img src="/wp-content/upload/..." />

My thought was that a solution like MFR only has to dig into all databases ob subsites (maybe with a dialog to select them) like as on the mainsite because the src-tags are same. All different src-tags will be ignored. Maybe I think to simple but: keep it simple! ??

What do you think about this approach?

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by wphr24.