[wp-hackers] Network Installation for multisites

[Nikola Nikolov]

I'd say that most of the users of WordPress don't really need a multisite
network - just because it exists doesn't mean that everyone needs it. And
the philosophy of WordPress regarding options is more or less along the
lines of "each option that is offered puts the decision on the user - which
makes it less user-friendly".

So if you want to have a network you will look it up and do it yourself.


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Madalin Ignisca
<madalin.ignisca at gmail.com>wrote:

> we have wp-cli for automating multisites in seconds. have you tried it? it
> has lots of addons to automate many things.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Utkarsh Dixit <utkarsh.dixit11 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Why not even add the "define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );" dynamically
> > using file parsing. We could provide a simple Enable network button to do
> > this. It would certainly be a step towards making the multisite network
> > available and easy to setup (for everyone). I dunno why this wasn't done
> > earlier. Maybe because it was slowing things down? ( file parsing does
> take
> > a large amount of time )
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Nikola Nikolov <nikolov.tmw at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > I'm just wildly guessing here, but maybe one of the reasons is because
> a
> > > multisite network is more complex than a normal WordPress site -
> meaning
> > > that the administrator of a network should have a bit more technical
> > > knowledge and you would most-likely need FTP access to your site
> anyway.
> > >
> > > Besides you already have to add a line of code to your wp-config.php in
> > > order to enable network installation, so it's not a big hassle to put
> the
> > > lines of code yourself.
> > >
> > > Again - that was just a guess, so if anyone has concrete knowledge on
> the
> > > matter I'd be very interested in learning about the reasoning.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Utkarsh Dixit
> > > <utkarsh.dixit11 at gmail.com>wrote:
> > >
> > > > While installing the network it is asked of a user to add the
> following
> > > > lines:
> > > >
> > > > define('MULTISITE', true);
> > > > define('SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false);
> > > > define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'localhost');
> > > > ......
> > > >
> > > > in the wp-config.php and also various changes are required to be made
> > to
> > > > the .htaccess file.
> > > >
> > > > I'm a little curious as to why can't these changes be made
> > automatically
> > > > using file handling in php? Is there some specific reason for not
> > > > implementing it this way?
> > > > ( Currently using version 3.8 )
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
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