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1. inspiredrichard
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi There

   Am I able to have one install to produce multiple "sites"?

   I may need to explain myself a little more:

   My admin has say 15 parent pages.

   There are 3 themes

   Pages 1-5 run on theme A

   Pages 6-10 run on theme B

   Pages 11-15 run on theme C

   All three appear to be different sites because of the 3 themes but in actuality they would be one site with 3 distinctly different areas.

   Obviously I only want to show the appropriate Navigation items in the main nav for each site.

   The reason we need to create the site to be like is that apparently for SEO purposes it is better to keep all three "sites" in the same site.

   Can it be done?

2. jonradio
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Multisite is a relatively new feature of "standard" WordPress (i.e. - not WordPress MU, which was built for large numbers of sites). As a result, there is not a lot of documentation for it yet. But I've been using it for quite a while and it works fine, and can likely address your needs.

   This article is probably the best place to start, if you ignore the irrelevant (to your situation) parts, and follow the relevant links within it:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Multiple_Blogs_into_WordPress_3.0_Multisite

3. govpatel
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   When you use multi site feature each will have its own admin panel. they can have own domain name by using domain name mapping plugin.

   All your website will only one database and one wordpress install yet managed as if they are different a good example is wordpress.com it is a multi site install.

4. jonradio
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   But it can also be as simple as a site with the root as its URL, and two others in subfolders of the same domain name. Or all three in subfolders off the same domain name.

5. govpatel
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   yes you can choose sub domain name or directory when you create the network that can not be reversed

6. @mercime
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   All three appear to be different sites because of the 3 themes but in actuality they would be one site with 3 distinctly different areas.

   If you just want to have different "themes" for 3 distinctly different areas, you don't even need to go multisite.

   Simplest way is to create Page Templates or Category Templates then create 1 header.php, 1 header-second.php, and 1 header-third.php with respective stylesheets. You can call respective headers accordingly in Page or Category Templates with
   <?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_header('second'); ?>
<?php get_header('third'); ?>

   You can work it that way for your footer.php, footer-second.php
   and footer-third.php

   References:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Category_Templates
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_header
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_footer
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_sidebar
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_part

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