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Thanks. I’ll take a look when I get a chance to update the plugin.

I don’t think you’ve fixed this. A copy of an email I just sent using your plugin produced:

I\\\\\\\’ve only tested sending this to site admins.

Just thought I’d chime in here. This thread was quite useful to me, as I’m a Dreamhost customer on shared hosting. I can confirm that Andrea’s instructions about the subdomain worked like a charm, but I thought I’d flesh out the details of what I did.

While DH has a custom hosting panel, I’d imagine that cpanel on other hosts should work fine. If you are looking to run WordPress 3.0 multi-site with subdomains on a DH shared hosting account, follow these instructions (at least they worked for me):

1. Make sure your primary domain is setup first on your host and that you have WP installed.
2. Set up your network for multi-site and subdomains and ensure you edit wp-config and .htaccess as per the info WP 3.0 provides for you during setup.
3. If you get the WP error message about wildcard subdomains, ignore it and continue.
4. As Andrea said, before you set up any sites on your network, get the directory location for your primary domain as you will need to point all of your subdomains to this location on your host.
5. Ensure you set up a subdomain on your host for any you plan on setting up through WP, and point it to your main domain directory.
6. Allow enough time for the subdomain to propagate and then test that it resolves to your main domain first.
7. Once your subdomain resolves successfully, set up your site with the same subdomain in WP. It should now work fine.

The only extra hassle is that you have to set up the subdomain first on your host and then set up the same site from within WP, but it’s better than having to move to VPS and pay a lot for it if you’re only looking to have a few sites managed through WP 3.0.