new to multisite, facing some problems

  • Hello everyone,
    I’m not new to wordpress but new to multisite as I’ve decided to use this option for a multilingual site i’m building.

    I’ve been reading all day and I’ve learned much but seem to be stuck, not sure if it was me that messed up something (tried to follow a guide i found here and noticed there were some differences and some options were just not there ??

    I’ll explain as simply as I can:
    installed a multisite website at domain.com (english) through softaculous
    already noticed some “weirdness” with the menu displaying off and jumpy
    changed wp-config.php to turn subdomain on
    added the wildcard subdomain in cpanel
    and added the fr.domain.com in sites
    now these work, but as far as languages are concerned, going to the settings>general of the fr site (just checked, for both actually), firstly there’s no button to save at the bottom of the page (i don’t think that is supposed to happen and i can’t save any modifications i do there) and secondly, from the guide there’s supposed to be a language option which is also not there….

    there’s also another issue I’ve come across, when I go to plugins of any (network, english and french) i get a “Oops! That page can’t be found.”
    I had read somewhere that the plugins need to be turned off before enabling multisite but since I installed wp through softaculous (checking the enable multisite checkbox) shouldn’t that have happened by itself and if it wasn’t could that be the problem?

    I’m not too sure how to move forward as it seems it’s pretty messed up and I believe I should be remedying all the above before progressing.

    any thought, pointers, help, links are greatly appreciated… I’m not asking anyone to do anything for me, I acknowledge that this is a help forum and appreciate the help and thank everyone in advance for taking the time to read my extra long text.

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  • Thread Starter orangeworx

    (@orangeworx)

    ok so a little update, I’ve managed to pinpoint the source of the menu jumpiness, it’s a chrome bug with slimming paint.

    After some clicking, I’ve found that the “save changes” in Settings only affects the General tab, anything I change there will not be saved, I had thought that if I was in an input field and hit enter, it would “save” but that doesn’t seem to do anything.

    Thread Starter orangeworx

    (@orangeworx)

    I’ve gone and checked for the plugins.php existence and the file is indeed there, I do not understand why when clicking plugins (for the network or for the seperate sites) I get the “Oops! That page can’t be found.” URL is indeed pointing at the file.

    Thread Starter orangeworx

    (@orangeworx)

    Wow! Stranger than strange, I’ve managed to get myself into plugins by deleting all the plugins on the server (since it’s a new install there was only akismet and hello dolly). While that’s fine and dandy, i have no access to upload new ones or install from the repo… so my next step was to upload one using ftp and since it’s a multilingual site i’m trying to build, i went ahead and uploaded multisite-language-switcher and that broke the plugins again…

    Same reasoning with the templates… i deleted them and kept 2015 which i renamed, got same results, renamed 2015 back and it broke again…

    I’m completely at a loss as I’ve got no idea what could be doing all this on a new install…

    in the hope this gets some attention

    Thread Starter orangeworx

    (@orangeworx)

    This is what happens when i delete the installed themes
    screenshot

    what happens when i click add themes
    screenshot

    clicking upload just adds a hash at the end of the URL

    for plugins,
    screenshot

    when I click Add New, URL changes to plugin-install.php and I get a blank page

    totally stumped

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