Category: Wordpress

I had been running my WordPress install as a multi-site setup for years because my previous host only allowed one install of WP. So a multi-site install neatly got around it.

Now I’m hosting on

I have separated each domain onto a separate WP install which is actually much easier to manage and removes the limits that a lot of WP plugins have on multi-site installs.

Its definitely loading A LOT faster too !

So now to correct a few typographic issues then i can start playing around with podcasts.

Nearly updated all the missing pictures but still a few typographic errors, hmmn.

Well I moved my hosting yet again.
Moved away from GoDaddy as it was getting too slow. Been there a year and it was okay and cost effective but I purchased a new visual editor and theme from Elegant Themes and it was painfully slow. I should have done some more research before buying and installing Divi as others had found that GoDaddy hosting doesn’t work well with it.
So I’m now using SiteGround and I’m very happy so far. Its based on an SSD drive with more resources and optimized for WP. Their support has been fantastic so far. Online chat with nearly no wait time to get answered and then the three staff I have chatted to have been really knowledgeable and gave me some good advice.
Now to learn Divi properly !

Took the plunge and deleted my WP multi-site install to correct some errors with my first install, namely getting domain mapping to work with unique domains.

All seemed okay until I did a restore (import) of this site and a few others and noticed there were no image thumbnails in the media gallery. Importing new images had the same issue and placing an image into a post resulted in no image being shown.

After much research and hair pulling I tried the WP Plugin Force Regenerate Thumbnails and it claimed to have regenerated the thumbnails but they still were not visible.

Then I found this post in the WordPress support forum by Linda Ursin that mentions a missing entry in the .htaccess file.

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

I don’t fully understand what is does but it gave me back my images 🙂

Thanks Linda.

Was pretty easy to move the content across thanks to this step by step article;
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/moving-wordpress-site-into-multisite/ Thanks Rachel for your post 🙂