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I'm setting up a Wordpress multisite installation for a client, and all the different sites will be under different domains. I set it up using the subdomain option, and a bit of Googling pointed me to the Wordpress MU Domain Mapping plugin to map those subdomains to full domains. However I also noticed that once a new site has been created, if you go to the edit screen, you can specify a full domain. And from a little bit of testing I did, setting this to a completely different domain seems to work.

So do I really need to use the Wordpress MU Domain Mapping plugin? Or is this plugin only useful for sites that need to be mapped to multiple domains & subdomains?

Wordpress Multisite Edit Screen

Christian
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  • I am dying to see if that would work! Did you go live to test it? – Radi Feb 01 '13 at 16:21
  • I haven't gone live yet, but I did some testing with temporary domains, and from what I could tell it worked fine. Having said that, I'm under nginx and I had to specify the domains for each site in the config file with their corresponding blog id. apache might be different - I'd say it differs for every use case. – Christian Feb 07 '13 at 11:28

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I wasn't able to run WP MU on multiple TLDs without the plugin. so I would say "yes" - if you manage several domains from one WP MU you need to set it up.

Maby someone can confirm this :)

Gerald
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  • Thanks for the answer! I'm going to give it a go when the sites go live with the real domains and see if it works. I'll keep you updated – Christian Dec 06 '12 at 14:04
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I may be mistaken however this is not recommended by the plugin developer.

The front end will work using this method, but without Domain Mapping correctly setup administration(dashboard) pf the secondary site will not work.

I have also had issues with an endless login loop when trying to access the dashboard on the administrator side of the secondary sites.

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