Comments on: How to set up Multisite Domain Mapping in WordPress 3.0

By: ACL surgery recoverer

ACL surgery recoverer — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:02:43 +0000

Hello, thanks for the tutorial.

I have wordpress 3.0, the network plugin installed and configured and everything set to go, but can’t get mapping domains to work.

I tried:
1. Leaving a Godaddy-registered domain parked (with its nameservers pointing at godaddy) and adding an A name record which points to the ip address of my wordpress server, then in wordpress I created a site by that name, then entered in the dashboard of that site and did domain mapping on the wordpress site, saying domain = this blog. And that doesn’t work.

2. Using existing add-on domains on my hosting (they are tacked on to the primary domain via cpanel) and trying to map those. So, these domains have nameservers pointed to the server with wordpress, and within the server hosting wordpress I tried to enter an a name. It doesn’t work either.

Any ideas/advice? I’m not sure if I did either of the above options correctly. I wish I saw an actual step by step example.

By: MArco

MArco — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:04:00 +0000

Hi. I’m trying to configure a network, too.
How can I add the record with iPage vDeck 4? Thanks

By: Kris

Kris — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:25:55 +0000

Hey Kris, I can’t see Tools->Domain Mapping as well, no metter where I go but followed the second method and it works fine. I don’t know how the second method would work with WP 3.1 though. You don’t see site ID there. You can only assume.

By: FBML

FBML — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:00 +0000

Its the best feature in new WP3 and was much needed. thanks for sharing the article on this.

By: janos demeter

janos demeter — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:26:31 +0000

Ok,got it work…but I have a issue with mu-plugins…as super-admin I cannot see plugins at all,what might be wrong?

By: Adrian Castro

Adrian Castro — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:23:52 +0000

Hi I just wanted to get you an update on the performance issues I had. I had a Wassup plug-in and when I disabled that performance significantly improved. I also replace the Super Cache plug-in with Quick Cache. My mapped sites now come up in 5 seconds or less.

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Learn the Internet Marketer Optimized Hosting Solution - tripwire magazine — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:46:44 +0000

[...] for serving multiple blogs inside one instance of WordPress and you can have domain names set up to point on each blog. However there are limitations to this model and if you e.g. want to use top marketing themes [...]

By: Lars

Lars — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:35:50 +0000

Adrian, it is quite hard to tell what is woring on the distance. However I can see that pinging and tracing your domains shows really fast response. So from my location it is not network problems making it take 7-10 sec. to load your page. I recommend that you:
1) disable plugins one at the time to see if one plugin is responsible for the masive time consumption
2) consider testing with tools like https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ognampngfcbddbfemdapefohjiobgbdl to see what part of the page load takes time
3) Install http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-dbmanager/ and make a repair and an optimize on the database
4) see if you can find tips here http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2009/11/optimize-wordpress-for-professional-performance.html

By: Adrian Castro

Adrian Castro — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:54:48 +0000

I was able to follow this tutorial really well – thank you for that!

However, I am having issues with the speed of the mapped domain. It comes up in 20-30 seconds for the first page – afterwards, page loading is fast (not sure if a cache issue – I am using WP Super Cache).

The primary domain comes up in 5 seconds or less.

Time was measured using Mozilla Firefox connected to the internet with a fast cable modem.

This is the primary domain – http://bjjjitsu.com
This is the mapped domain – http://kangendistributor.info

Any advise on why the mapped domain is so slow compared to the primary domain.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:11:04 +0000

Hi first of all, great article!

I am having trouble with this line in cpanel:

Below “Add New Entries Below This Line”, enter in the first box (Domain) an asterisk: “*”.

It won’t allow me to do so and errors out to: * Name must be a domain with
an optional period at the end.

I cant put the asterix before or after the domain name with or without the period. Has anyone got any clue to what is happening here or a way to bypass this step?