New site not being added to My Sites list

Are you the site admin of that site?

Yes. I added the site through the Network admin and then mapped the domain through the sub-site.

No no, is your ID the admin of that site? ?? it’s a different thing.

I don’t understand what you’re asking. We created a site, made it a multi-site, added the Domain Mapping plugin, created sites with sub-folders and mapped domains to them. When I log into the main site, hover over My Sites at the top, and it only shows the sites created before I started, not the one I created. I hover over Network Admin and click Sites, and it shows all the sites including the one I created. The previous developer did something I haven’t yet, and I’m not sure what that is. Everything else looks fine.

When you make a site, you know how it asks you what email address to use for the SITE admin?

That’s what I mean. Is your ID, the one you are logged in as, added as a USER (any role) account to the site that doesn’t show up on the list? Super Admin can go to every site in the network, but only when you are specifically added as a USER ROLE on that site will it show on your “My Sites” list.

That’s a bizarre way to do it. Why am I able to create a site as a super user but not see it on my sites list without adding myself as a user to the site? Isn’t a super user supposed to see everything? Seems like a design flaw.

Clearly you’ve never made a bunch of sites for other people.

You, as super admin, can still get to all of them, but only the ones you USE and post to etc should be on your ‘My Sites’ list. Otherwise it’s not your site, it’s their site, and you’re just hosting it ??

The design is intended to allow the Super Admin to manage a network.

Uh, yes, I have made a bunch of sites for other people, just not through WordPress (this is my first time managing it, including multi-site, and in fact I took over for an entire development team that worked on this, left it a mess for us, and is not in contact with us anymore because of reasons I had nothing to do with), but thanks for the overly-broad assertion.

Anyways, thanks for the information, it is helpful, and I am learning as I go, but please don’t take my comments about WordPress’ way of doing things personally or make generalizations about somebody’s experience level.

Sorry my comment was 100% WordPress implied. I meant “Clearly you’ve never made a bunch of WordPress sites for other people on a Multisite.”

I think my generalization of you never managing a WP Multisite network was accurate, though. If you’ve never poked at WordPress.com, you should, though, as that’s exactly what a Multisite is. Hundreds of separate blogs using one base install, where you are master. ??