ftstone
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
Hey guys,
I currently have a website for a business for which we are opening a new branch in the coming month. Imagine the website is http://www.lefish.com - Can I configure wordpress so that when people go to the URL lefish.com they get to a html page which two picture on it: a picture of the first branch in france, the second picture of the new branch in italy. Ideall I would like each picture to re-direct to
picture 1 --> lefish.com/france
picture 2 --> lefish.com/italy
I am sure I can get wordpress multisite to do this, but I am not sure how to set-up the welcome page with the two pictures? Would you guys have any idea where to start?
Thank a lot for your help!
The welcome page would just be part of your theme files on the main site. That's it.
Nothing multisite special about it. ;) Just where the links go to.
ftstone
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
#Andrea_r: Thanks for the quick anwer, but in this case how to get it to redirect to two different wordpress site ? One for each branches?
Make a static page in WP and use it as a static front page.
Create two subsites (france and italy) and you'll get domain.com/france etc (WOrdPress will magically handle that, don't stress too much).
On your static front page, link to your sites.
Have beer :)
ftstone
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
Schweet! In that case can I import my old website settings and content (the one of the first branch) as one of the sub-site?
Is your old site a WordPress site?
ftstone
Member
Posted 3 months ago #
Yes, but HOW you import it depends.
If it's installed in domain.com then you can either keep it there and activate MultiSite on that install, OR you can move it to another folder, install a fresh install of WP at domain.com, and create the subsites.
Also doing the traditional import/export will NOT bring your settings over.
ftstone
Member
Posted 3 months ago #
Currently it is hosted and is installed on lefish.com, so I guess the best solution is to activate multisite on this install and graft the new site on this?
In this case should I create a static page for the site I have already running?
#Andrea_r: Thanks for the quick anwer, but in this case how to get it to redirect to two different wordpress site ? One for each branches?
Like ipstenu said: you put those links on a page in your theme. Have a beer.
cherrystreetkid
Member
Posted 3 months ago #
I am nontech girl... I have the same issue. Have my domain.com page. Managed to get multisite. But I cant get further. How can I make domain.com into domain.com/italy? How to set up static page - as separate site? Theoretically I understand the scheme but how to do it in wp? And how to get new site domain.com/france? If I write like this in new site adress field wp says "missing or invalid site address".
Thank you in advance!
cherrystreetkid - You should make your own topic, if the directions given in this one aren't enough.
Also if you're non-tech, you may need to consider hiring someone.
Remember, domain.com and domain.com/italy are SEPARATE sites. You make a static front page on domain.com, NOT on domain.com/italy.
