Action Turtle

Is there anyone that knows why this might have happened or what went wrong?

I just don’t want it to ever happen again…

Thanks!

well that was unhelpful…

I have already moved on and am securing my site a different way and have no conflicts…

I will check back with AIO later to see if you have updated and re-test

Thanks

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 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!!!

Yea thats the best to avoid duplicate content which search engines don’t like because they don’t know where to point the user too…

I think from your description I would go the subpage route as well… One thing search engines really like is lots of internal linking…

SEO is easiest to think of in three ways…

Relevance – the most relevant terms will get returned

but if there are multiple relevant terms then a tie breaker judge will determine which results to return…

Tie breakers would come in two major categories – Speed and Links

So whoever has a faster website and more external and internal links will rank higher…

Hope that helps ??

There is a few ways you could skin this cat…

You could go the subpage route and just point your domain for the different locations to the subpages… i.e https://www.strikebowling.au/ https://www.strikebowling.eu/ and so on… at https://www.strikebowling.com/au https://www.strikebowling.com/eu

It just depends on the community you want to create around the domain… Is the community supposed to be around https://www.strikebowling.com and that is the brand all the customers should know…

Or should they think that these are all different places and not part of a chain…

And should each page or (site) have a bunch of unique content or will each page be reality plain with just store hours and location info… basic stuff

If it is separate and unique then I would suggest WP multisite and make all the content unique for each domain… If its together I would go the subpage route and keep it all on the same domain so your not duplicating your content…

Hope that helps ??

Cool so just to be super clear… The url under the hyperlink that is returned by search engines will be the mapped domain? Not my sub site…

Have you done it with your sites and see the result?

Thank you so much for clearing this up for me…

Make sense… Thanks!

Sweet ?? Thanks man!

Oh the writer for the MU Domain mapping plug-in said it could be in by that version… I am not holding my breath ??

ok how do i get it set-up to be mapped the whole entire time then? Or is multi site just not capable of having different sites in it? I mean I know that was the plan that each site be completely separate and different but shares same plugins and themes… But I guess they are not truly separate because google will be indexing the wrong domain ??

efff man… this could be a deal breaker for me…

I really really appreciate your feed back Mika… your help has be invaluable…

hmmm k… Thanks… Also got some feed back from the plugin that all this will be rolled into core WP in 4.4 maybe… I think it will make all our head aches go away or start new ones ??

But do you know the answer about what google will index? I have been trying to figure out for so long it seems now… haha… really really hope its the mapped domain…

Thanks for all your help!

Oh Happy Days!!! It makes so much sense and will probably solve everyone problems

Any idea when this might be?

As for now I can’t get a clear answer on this… Does google index the mapped domain or my subdomain? Like its a deal breaker if the URL under the google results is my subdomain… I want to make sure its the mapped domain…

This seems very important for SEO especially as we move into domain mapping being done in core wp… That way none of my sites loose rank even though I am changing backed end stuff…

Thanks!

@mbay – I listed a work around… Just use two browsers and you won’t evoke the https problem…

i have them log in to the non mapped one… Thats fine for backend they know they are on my network….

However I do not want the general public to know that… It is a deal breaker if the url bellow the google returned results is my subdomain url… It has to be the mapped url… which is why I am concerned that the snippet shows my subdomain and not the mapped domain…

I am ok with the snippet being wrong and having to tell admins on my network not to worry about that… But I can not have google indexing my subdomain… It must be the mapped domain that google is indexing…

I guess my main concern in that the snippet is showing that google will pull the subdomain and not the mapped domain… which is the opposite of what I want…

Thanks

So random…

I think AWS added that in the URL for sub sections… I have been using the same bucket the whole time no problem but its in the Oregon section…

So i just made a new bucket in Standard US and set that as the target bucket for the plugin and the problem was fixed…

Very strange…

There is no way your plugin is dropping this from the URL string? -us-west-2

I noticed that the URL attached to my images is s3.amazonaws.com/ bucket info

When the actual URL the image is at is s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com / bucket info

I mean i did not change the bucket or any images so either amazon updated the naming convention (which they say they did not but who knows)

or your plugin with the picture fill and javascript and other re-write methods for how to display the correct image is dropping that part from the URL somehow? I mean I sure that is unlikely…

So there in no data that gets written into the database from your plugin that could be causing this URL naming issue?

Thanks so much!