paulrowe51

Since :80 is the HTTP default port, browsers will do the same thing with it or without it. Can’t you just drop it?

If it’s gotten into site domain or URL settings, you might need to take it out.

I naively tried to set up a devel copy of a web site that has both single and multi-user WP, and tried to put it on an alternate port of the server (which is serving another main purpose), and ran into the message out of WP initializations: “Multisite only works without the port number in the URL.”

Ipstenu & Andrea_r,

Thank you both for the great replies. I am encouraged.

I think I will give it a try, and use subdirectories. I hope I can keep the old subdomain redirected to the new subdirectory for prior links, and switch over to publishing it as https://www.ourstore.com/products instead of blogs.ourstore.com. There are other blogs.

Do I understand the first site of a multi-site installation gets a /blog/ subdirectory, at least for its content? Do people often set up a test blog to take this one?

Our multiple authors are internal groups. We could use categories, and this might even have advantages for our visitors in searching. But could categories have different templates?

Thanks again,
Paul

We had an intrusion and attempted takeover of our server through what appears to be an injection vulnerability in WordPress 2.7.

Let’s face it: NOTHING is secure enough to be on the same server that processes credit cards. Even then, one has only made a best effort. Until the Payment Card Industry abandons this ridiculous attitude that they alone are entitled to zero-factor authentication, it will remain so. A CC number is hardly a password, but they want to prosecute us if we don’t keep them secret. insane.