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Register for individual site instead of the network in a Multisite installation?

I’m using Q&A and domain mapping for an individual site – http://iot4climate.solutions/ (mapped to http://solutions.iot4climate.net/ ) – in a Multisite installation – http://iot4climate.net/

Users must register for the site to be able to ask a question or post an answer or vote. When a user discovers our Q&A site (which is not the Primary site), they are directed to a BuddyPress registration form on the Primary site and after authenticating via email they are again brought to the Primary site, which leaves the user confused as to why they are there, plus they may still not be registered for the individual Q&A site.

At first I thought I wanted all registrants to be part of the BuddyPress network, in addition to registering for whatever non-primary site where they started. I am willing to give up “adding in the BuddyPress registration,” if that is the only way to have people get registered for the non-primary site, where they first started.

How does one set up multisite, so users visiting site-a.primarysite.com (or site-b.primarysite.com ) are registered for “site-a” or “site-b” instead of primarysite.com ?

Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:16:07
  • Vaughan
    • Ex Staff

    Hi @drron,

    All users on multisite are network users, so they will always be registered on the main network site anyway, but if they register on a subsite, they should then have access to that site.

    Buddypress does make this kinda awkward as it works best when network activated, so registration will always be at the main primary site. But you could add the following to your wp-config.php which will make BP a multi blog BP, so each subsite will basicly have it’s own BP.

    define('BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG', true);

    That might get you the behaviour that you want all being well.

    Hope this helps