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1. JonathanEx
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   This is a bit of an odd question to place, but I assume it would be a plugin I would need to do this. And I'm going to mention the site name/address as a case of making it clear, not advertising. Just making it clear so I don't look like a jerk.

   Basically, I do BritishGaming.co.uk - a pretty popular blog, guess the content and target market from the URL. As people will know, the new E3 is coming up, and I'd like to use a different template on the site to format it better for E3. Posting so much more per day might not work best on the current template.
   However, I don't want to end up changing the main site experience. I want to have it so that when a visitor goes to say, e3.britishgaming.co.uk (ignore the content there, that's E3 2006) they see a different template, but it's still loading up the exact same content. Same db and all.
   Obviously, that's quite tricky. Well, I think it is anyway. If it helps, our server does subdomains so that britishgaming.co.uk/e3 is the same as e3.britishgaming.co.uk, if that makes coding any easier.

   Hope there's a way of doing this,
   Jon

2. Funkphenomenon
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You mean you want to produce a duplicate site? That's not something that will help you from a search engine point of view, check out http://www.google.nl/search?q=penalty+duplicate+content.

   Why not just switch templates temporarily, or build an E3 section?

3. JonathanEx
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Maybe not straight up duplicating: I really just want to offer another way of navigating the site, so I guess one of those plugins which allows people to chose a template, and I just have an include at e3.bgb.co.uk for the E3 template version.

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   It will not work because 2 of the very basic but MAIN settings, namely site_url and home (the two URI options you set in the admin > Options > General) are stored in the database!
   Which means you cannot display the same content from one database on two domains!

5. JonathanEx
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hmmm. Is my other plan (reply 2) or any other ways feasible for achieving pretty much the same main effect?

6. Funkphenomenon
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Maybe you could redirect all people from that E3 subdomain to your main site, while sending some parameters to select the E3 template?

   For this, you'd need a PHP stylesheet switcher (for choosing the template) and some rules in your .htaccess (for the redirect). (I'm not into server-side development, so I don't know the details, only the general idea.)

7. hbalagh
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I've got my personal blog

   http://www.heathersblog.com with one style

   then i also have it at

   http://www.heatherbalagh.com/blog/ with a totally different style...

   i have it posted how i did it here

   http://www.heathersblog.com/2007/multiple-blogs-same-content/

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