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  • I have been searching for a solution to this without any luck. Hopefully I’m in the right place and someone can help me with it.

    I have a client that wants to set up multiple sites and would like to use WordPress to manage it all.

    The main site, that I’ll call the parent site will not have much on it, a few pages and links to all of the “Child” sites.

    In the back-end of the Parent site they will be able to create products. I’m would plan on using a custom post type for this. The parent site will contain a master list of every product, this could number in the thousands, not sure at this point.

    On the child sites, instead of entering products they would instead have a way to select products from the parent site that would be displayed on each site.

    So basically, there is one site with that is a storehouse of all the data and several other sites that can tap into that data.

    All of the sites would look pretty much identical with a few cosmetic changes, but be accessed form completely different domain names.

    Can this be done? Any pointers to information on something like this greatly appreciated. My first thought was to use a multi-site WP, but like I said, I’ve had no luck finding anything that indicates that what they want it possible using WP.

    Thanks

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    Yeeeah. But I wouldn’t use Multisite for it.

    The problem is that Multisite is intended to have separate data sets, so you’re not going to find it easy :/

    Thread Starter John Huebner

    (@hube2)

    So this would not be a multi-site settup. So I’m in the wrong area. Any pointers on which WP forum might get me the best results.

    The way you describe the situation, it sounds like the best thing to do would be to keep it as a single site, but implement a lot of customized code to split up the user responsibilities.

    Thread Starter John Huebner

    (@hube2)

    What the client currently has is about 10 to 12 sites on separate domains and they’re products on each domain separately. It appears that it is something like them that is a supplier with many distributors. The distributors can decide what products they carry and they are hosted at the distributors domain name. Having a single site is not an option for them.

    At this point, unless I find an easier way, it looks like I will need to build the database connections and do all the queries myself. I can do it, but quite honestly the DB design on WP and what you need to go through to dig the data out of it without using WP_Query is not very simple. I was just hoping there was a way to do this that would be less time consuming.

    Seriously, I could probably built a custom CMS for this in less time than it would take using WP. But the client is insistent on using WP for some reason.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    *sigh* I hate when clients insist. Using WP for a store like that is kinda not the right way to do it. Multisite is great for multiple separate stores but honestly I don’t think anyone has actually set it up so there’s a great Multisite Store plugin with a central, network controlled, DB of possible products.

    That would be an AWESOME idea :/

    You’d have to write it, though.

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