WordPress multisite or use a plugin?

  • boudiccas

    (@boudiccas)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    I’m at the stage of having activated multisite and getting everything working again, and am now considering my next options. I want to create a new wordpress site that will be unpublished until it is all in place ready to go live. It will be a wordpress copy of a site which is currently all plain html, and becoming more difficult to maintain. But can I keep the site ‘off-line’ just on the usual wordpress setup or should I use the ‘moderate new blogs’ plugin please? I’ve never used multisite before so am treading very cautiously.

    Thanks
    Sharon.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Why do you need Multisite for this at all?

    Are you trying to create a new site off an existing site, or is the whole WP thing new?

    Thread Starter boudiccas

    (@boudiccas)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    I just thought it would be easier to manage if I could multi-site it, after all, both domains are on the same server, sitting next to each other. One is already a wordpress site, running quite well, the second is pure-html and has become monolithic too maintain, so I want to rebuild it with wordpress.

    Sharon.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Ah, okay, thank you.

    So you CAN do this in Multisite. You would, on the WP site (we’ll call it example.com) create a new subsite for pure-html (call it pure-html.example.com)

    Port everything over, content etc, make the design what you want. Then park the domain for pure-html.com on top of example.com, and use domain mapping.

    The last step would be to search/replace post content for pure-html to use the domain and not the subdomain. Done 🙂

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