Title: Multisite Dashboard link
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Multisite Dashboard link

 *  [gshah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gshah/)
 * (@gshah)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-dashboard-link/)
 * Hello,
 * I just activated multisite on an existing WordPress installation. After configuring
   network setup, I added a new site. So now I have the main site on the root path
   and then some sub sites using the subdirectory approach. The problem is that 
   the dashboard link for all these sites are pointing to the main site URL. If 
   I type in the URL manually site.com/abc/wp-admin then it takes me the correct
   dashboard but then when I try to activate the theme it takes me back to the main
   sites dashboard.
 * Please help me solve this issue.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-dashboard-link/#post-5097864)
 * What plugins are you running?
 * Have you tried with them all off?
 *  Thread Starter [gshah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gshah/)
 * (@gshah)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-dashboard-link/#post-5097865)
 * Yes I had turned them all off, but will try it again.
 *  Thread Starter [gshah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gshah/)
 * (@gshah)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-dashboard-link/#post-5097918)
 * I tried turning off all the plugins but still no luck.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-dashboard-link/#post-5097919)
 * Go in via the database and manually change the theme of your main site to Twenty
   Fourteen.
 *  [pcraig3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcraig3/)
 * (@pcraig3)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-dashboard-link/#post-5097940)
 * Hello mate!
 * I just had the same problem happen to me as well: new sites created on my (sub-
   directory) multisite network would have the wrong links generated for their dashboards,
   and, similarly, trying to change a new site’s theme would only change the theme
   for the main site.
 * However, when I went through the back-end (as a Super Admin) to **My Sites > 
   Network Admin > Sites**, and then clicked on a subsite and went to the **Settings**
   tab, I noticed that the first field (**Siteurl**) had in it the address of my
   main site.
 * When I tried updating it (typing in the correct address and clicking the **Save
   Changes** button at the bottom), it wouldn’t update the address for whatever 
   reason.
 * I finally got it to work by logging into the database and updating the `option_value`
   field for the `siteurl` in the options table for my new site.
 * I’ve given a bit of a test drive and everything looks like it’s fine. Hope this
   helps you (or somebody else) out!

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## Tags

 * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dashboard/)
 * [link](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/link/)
 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [pcraig3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcraig3/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-dashboard-link/#post-5097940)
 * Status: not resolved

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