Change Domain of Site?

You CAN.

But please read this first: https://halfelf.org/2014/mapping-domains-without-plugin/

Do you also know if change the URL’s here will that negate my wild card SSL cert and require me to get a cert for every domain?

Alas, yes.

I see… Hmmm Yea I am really liking the wild card ssl

But I have a concern… I want to make sure my network is set up the best going forward so future proofing as best I can is a must to me…

In your post you say you think this feature in the site settings might go away in future version of WP… Really? I would think that this feature should work by default and you would have to set up sub domains specially if you wanted that… Why do you think there is so much confusion in this area?

You also say its extremely important to have these settings correct before add content so the correct content gets pulled… I am still in development so should i start over and map my network this way from the start? Is it very bad if I just change all them to what I want?

I saw you said to modify the config file for cookies… Is that the only mod you need to make? have you come across any new problems since you wrote that post?

I mean this really seems the way to go but if wordpress stops supporting it that would a disaster down the road for us to have to move back to the plugin… And Ideally I would have as little plugins as possible and do everything as close to the core… I really hope wordpress would add more support for this feature going forward…

p.s. I picked up both of your books ?? excited to read them…. Thanks again for all your help!!!

If the feature goes away, it would be replaced with something better. It’s not a ‘go away and never work again, hah hahhah’ thing. ??

And you CAN change it all after, it’s just a pain and a search/replace hassle. You have to use a serialization safe search and replace tool.

And the cookies, yes, that’s all you have to change and it works fine ??

Hahaha that makes total sense that it would be upgraded ??

So I think the ideal route…

Use sub-sites for backend login that is SSL wildcard protected and then use the domain mapping plugin to map to what I want and then if any of those sites need SSL on the front end I will get it for that domain…

Now my question is… Do you think wordpress will move towards better support to edit the site setting and do the domain that way and support for the plugin will go away… or do you think it will kinda stay the way it is and the plugin route will be supported more for http and https?

I think that WordPress will move to better support with regards to editing the site settings.

Thanks so much!