[Plugin: Networks for WordPress] Plugin Broken – Odd Results

Sorry to hear you are dissatisfied, but your concerns reflect a lack of understanding about sites vs. networks and how WordPress treats networks.

1. A trailing slash is a must for a Network path. You will note that your original network has one. I haven’t seen a double slash created, and am not able to reproduce that problem. If you have more details on that, I’d be happy to look into it.
But you’re saying “site,” and this plugin is not involved in creating Site paths, unless you are using the move feature.

2 – 3. To WordPress, your networks are completely separate.

So if you go to the admin dashboard for a site on your new network, it will also have a “Network Admin” link — that is the network admin for your new network. And the way to “switch between” them is to go to sites on different networks.

And because the networks are separate, you must run “Update Network” on each Network individually. This is a WP core limitation. If you are saying you ARE running “Update Network” on your new network and its sites are not reflecting the update, that’s something I can look into.

If you have questions about how things work, I (and others here) would be happy to help answer them. But please don’t declare things broken because you don’t understand them.

Hmm. Going to ignore the assumption that I don’t understand the plugin or its purpose. Assumptions make us both look bad…

I have some screen shots for you to look at that can help illustrate the first problem outlined above. Like I said, it was resolved completely by altering a data point in the new row created in wp_sites table, so I think that’s just an error in the plugin code someplace.

And as for my other points, perhaps I’ll try to ask the question a different way: Does the new network admin page resolve to a different URL than the first one?

For example: Let’s assume that we have a network which has a base URL of mysite.com. The URL mysite.com/wp-admin/network will lead you to the network admin page for the primary network created.

Now, using your plugin, I created a second network using the domain myothersite.com. I can see the actual site when I use the link in the top nav bar. (It’s listed along with the other sites on the first network).

What is the URL that is created for the new network admin panel? I haven’t been able to find the link your documentation refers to, and the logical choice of myothersite.com/wp-admin/network redirects back to the primary site network page at mysite.com/wp-admin/network.

Thanks for your assistance. If I can get your email address, I’ll forward you the screen captures of the “second backslash” problem I was also asking you about.

The network admin URL for each network is /network appended to the admin URL of the root site for that network. You did let the plugin create a root site for you when you made your new network, right?

If you are getting redirects, your web server or DNS is probably configured incorrectly. This is very common. You should make sure that both domains are handled by the same web server serving the same filesystem path. If you use a control panel, you may need to do some searching to figure out how to configure this correctly.

When you say “backslash,” do you mean “slash?” There shouldn’t be any backslashes in the path. I’m going to assume (ha ha) that you meant slash (/), but if you didn’t, that’s your problem right there – no backslashes in the path.

As far as the double-slash issue goes, the only screen captures that might help are of the values you’re entering when you create a new network, and those would be better conveyed as text anyway. You are the only person having trouble with this and I can’t reproduce the problem, but if you provide details on your setup and what you’re doing when this issue pops up (i.e. what values you are entering for domain and path), I’d be happy to look into it.