rapidasia

unexpected outcome

somehow, for some reason using Cloudflare is adding 100MB of memory usage…

disabling cache and changing nameservers not to use Cloudflare reduces server load tremendously

this makes no sense

thanks for the prompt reply. I was using worker mode to avoid the added parameter being visible in the URL thinking my users might get confused — but for now I’m going to just use standard caching.

on the next couple of sites I’ll take the time to diagnose what’s what.

multisite is pretty much a regular wp site in regards to how it interacts with your server.

the only oddities come about regarding users or when you want to do Domain Mapping on subsites (ie use a different domain name) — but these days that’s painless and takes just a couple of minutes.

in some ways multisite can reduce server resources because you can have subsites dedicated to different sets of plugins… ie a woocommerce shop can be kept separate from your main site or whatever.

all sites, subsites and primary, use the same database tables for users. various plugins are available if you want to tweak roles. keep in mind, users can have multiple roles (so plugin devs don’t know this)

go to plugin settings and insert page id in exclusions

it shouldn’t be saying sitemap.html … that’s not how WordPress works (it doesn’t end in .html)

this sitemap page is geneated using shortcodes on any page you create in wordpress

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by rapidasia.

I’m thinking the writing is on the wall and Automattic is going to leave us in the lurch on a lot of stuff…

@donncha thanks

when things are working those two are a good combo… until they’re not

@bcworkz thanks – I do think you’re right about the admin (or something) trying to start the cron

I ended up adding a snippet to functions.php that made everything work a lot better, reducing queries substantially

// Disable automatic updates for All plugins:
add_filter( 'auto_update_plugin', '__return_false' );

basically stopping most of the plugins from running checks on page load. hasn’t interfered with updating plugins so far.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by bcworkz. Reason: code format fixed

@soberbanda thanks for the tip

I think the issue with plugin updates hitting the database makes my idea impractical.

Ended up deciding to give WP Multi-Network as try. I know it will make cloning and decoupling sites tricky – but the resource savings is what is more important for this project

wish I had read this review more carefully

I also just left a one star review and I can’t fathom why people leave 5 star reviews – you can’t use this plugin to import the database you just exported…

Multisite will make your life a breeze

the sites share plugins – they are activated network enabled or for each individual site

the sites share themes… you enable theme/child theme for a single site or all sites

There is a legacy plugin no longer supported available on github that allows you to create a “New Blog Template” with everything all set up – plugins/settings/themes… different looks… new working site in about 2 minutes…

import/export customizer settings, create different child themes…

users registered on the main site are users on the subsite (subscriber role) – but you can create additional user role (it author if you want the couple to create stuff on the site) — this has changed a bit but plugins will handle it for you (role editors/capabilities manager) – users can have multiple roles so it’s not an issue.

all my sites are multisites

use subdirectories

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by rapidasia.

nevermind

seems like an issue with the particular multisite setup

I had a problem creating a network on one site when it didn’t create a user

but on a different multisite – I set all wp-config in advance, deactivated almost all plugins and it created a new network appropriately.

thnx

Great, thanks for the prompt and helpful reply.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by rapidasia.