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Hey @astrofizz,

What service do you use to host the videos? I had similar requirements from a client and set them up with Vimeo Pro. They can set all videos to be watermarked, restrict the domain the video can be played in (to prevent downloading/hotlinking) and it saves me storing them.

It’s then easy for them to just copy/paste the Vimeo embed link into the field in your page.

Does that help?

This is exactly what I need too @proaktion! In my case I’m using Formidable Pro for front end submission but some users will get into wp-admin for more access to costom post types

Hey @albertramsbottom,

Don’t give up yet!

I have also read that products cannot be shared across sites and only replicated. Which seems odd as it just makes ones site huge in terms of all those images and thumbnails etc

I did a quick Google and this came up which might be of use to you for this bit https://woomultistore.com/

And nothing regarding domains

This is called domain mapping and is perfectly possible. Here’s a list of plugins on www.remarpro.com which might do it

This isn’t really a problem with WordPress, so a good starting point for you would be the help documents at Byethost and GoDaddy.

There are three ways to do this:

• Change your ‘a’ records at GoDaddy to point at byethost IP address for your account
• change your ‘cname’ record to point to your account at byethost
• change your nameservers from GoDaddy to Byethost

Good luck ??

Hey @danny1212,

That’s really interesting that you think Formidable Pro is too expensive. What are you comparing it to? I’ve recently gone through the process of finding a new forms plugin and I’ve gotta say that FP seems like very good value to me when I compared it against other advanced forms.

Hey @tgr17,

Could you post a link to your two sites please? The main site and your test site… This will help people see what might be going on.

Hey @rosak,

I had a quick look at your site and the images are set to max width 25%. This means that as the screen gets smaller they are much smaller relative to the size of the text, so the text starts to wrap round. There also seems to be something funny happening with the width of the three other <div>s. I tried making them width:75%; but it just put a massive margin on the rhs.

You could try combining the three <div>s of the text into one, and give it clear:left;

Is this the Storefront theme from WooCommerce?

I’m off to bed now but let me know how you get on…

Hey @digitaldevnet,

1. It’s not best practice to work on your live site. If things go wrong it can get embarrassing, especially if you have clients asking why their site is broken (the site you linked to offers web development so I assume you might have clients). Here’s a great article that explains how you might set up staging.
2. I did a test using Pingdom (there was a handy link in one of your posts) and it looks like there’s a long wait for your server to start sending data. Here’s a thread on StackExchange which explains some possible reasons for the ‘wait’ shown in the Pingdom results.

I hope that helps ??

In fact, assuming you’re in a work situation I would be getting the tech guys at work to do all this for me rather than relying on free support… ??

^^ re-reading this it sounds a bit rude. I apologise – wasn’t intended that way. I just meant that if I had been asked to do this at work I wouldn’t want the responsibility if I wasn’t 100% sure it would work.

This article explains more about how to merge the two versions you’ll end up with of the database: https://deliciousbrains.com/database-merging-made-easy/

Keep us posted!

Doing stuff to the cloned site won’t affect the live site as there’s no link back to it. It’s effectively a whole other website, just identical (at the point of cloning). So it is already ‘staged’. Thinks out loud: if any links in your site are coded as full addresses like https://intranet.my-company.com/ then when you click them you’ll be taken to the live site.

Remember those JetPack settings in the link above.

When you’re happy it has all worked and updated you can either just make the cloned site the live one by changing your DNS (ask your sysadmins) or ask them to clone it back. Bear in mind that if lot’s of people are adding things to the live site while you’re testing in staging, then the databases will be out of sync. You’ll need something to merge the databases, but this isn’t my area of expertise – I would just search for a plugin which does it.

In fact, assuming you’re in a work situation I would be getting the tech guys at work to do all this for me rather than relying on free support… ??

The way I’d put it is that if you’re not going to do it that way, there’s not much reason to be using WordPress.

^^ Exactly

Hey @map7890,

I would suggest you use some sort of back up plugin to create a copy of your entire multisite network, then install this into your staging environment. You can then test out your updates without it affecting your live site.

Check out Duplicator Pro which says it will migrate an entire network.

Your sysadmin could set you up another bit of your local server as the staging site, or there is software which can create a ‘server’ on your computer – check out something like Local by Flywheel to easily create a staging environment if you’re on a Mac.

Read this for letting JetPack know what’s going on when it wakes up confused in its temporary home!

Hope that helps…

Hey @juliejoen,

You might need to be logged out of your personal account for that link to work, or open it in a private/incognito window in your browser.

It would definitely be easier for me as I’m no MySQL expert and I’d want WordPress to do as much as possible for me.

I’d be looking at WP All Import Pro to import the current rows into the post types. If you can export from your DB as .csv or .xml you can map the fields across to Pods using one of their add-ons.

Unless you have other systems connecting to your external database this is the way to go IMO.

@sweetmore if you have experience of coding in PHP and MySQL, then read through the links in Jacob’s answer and you’ll figure it out.

There are lots of plugins you can use to make the Custom Post Types without code. What this will look like is this:

1. Install plugin (for example Pods)
2. Use plugin to create Custom Post Type called “animals” and set the singular and plural names
3. Add custom fields to the post type (like Animal name, latin name, maxsize, colour etc
4. Create a custom taxonomy with terms you want to categorise and display your animals by (like reptile, mammal, furry, scaly, whiskers, eats humans, etc)
5. You’ll now see “animals” on the left hand menu of wp-admin. Click on “add new animal” and you can enter the details

I hope that helps explain the process.