How to create a WordPress Multisite integrated with multiple sites

  • clicktab

    (@clicktab)


    5 years, 6 months ago

    You need to create a website in WordPress, this website is very audacious and will have different publications for different subdomains (functioning as a type of portal). Noting that you need that when a person searches anywhere on the site, all the publications from all the sites that form this network of sites appear, as well as when you access a tag, that tag will encompass all the publications from all of those sites.
    So you imagine: I’m going to use WordPress Multisite! But there is only one problem, there is no way to do any of this – at least as far as I know.

    I’ve been looking for a topic on the internet for a long time to help me solve this, but I didn’t find it, there is no plugin and there is nothing, the closest I found was a suggestion to use Drupal, which is supposed to do.

    After a long time, I imagined I will ask for help in the WordPress community, who knows how to do it (if someone really responds to this topic).

    – Basically it is creating a website with several publications almost independent, having their own logos and design, but all the sites work together.
    – This is not much different from Gizmodo, it’s like creating an “example.com” for a network of sites (movies.example.com, example.com/fast-news), where all the publications from other sites on the network will appear, that has its own logos and design.
    Literally it is just that, it is like creating a session within a website, it is as if it were a category, but you defined that category as another publication.

    In my case, I was looking to create a news site, there would be a normal publication (like any WordPress site), but there would be a session for movie trailers, with its own design. And yet there would be another site for news not so important/relevant, just as a kind of quick note.

    But using Multisite or another WordPress, I will not be able to place it in the most accessed posts on all sites, when the person clicks on a tag, all publications on all sites will not be listed.

    Anyway, I think I specified it well, could anyone really help me with this?
    How to do this using WordPress? If so, how?

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  • JNashHawkins

    (@jnashhawkins)

    5 years, 6 months ago

    That’s kind of what I’ve done…

    In your case you’ll want to grab a domain name, build a WordPress site using that domain name, then you’ll want to almost immediately convert that WordPress site to a multisite using subdirectories…

    I say subdirectories and immediately as WordPress gets finicky about the network style after 30 days or so… After 30 days subdomains are the rule if not before and for your use that would make an extra step when you add a site… actually several.

    I use the RSS feeds of my ‘subsites’ to feed my main site with blog post content.

    You can do that or use a plugin like Syndicate Out to merge one sites content into the main site.

    You might instead use either RSS publication widgets or actually use the post mechanisms to incorporate posts from one site’s database tables into the main site.

    This isn’t a trivial undertaking so you might instead look at Post Categories on a single site and pages containing the ‘loop’ aimed at different categories.

    You might also consider building the network (‘subdirectory’ type as above) for long term planning and start with the categories to get off the ground.

    I use these two plugins…

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/feedwordpress/

    and

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/syndicate-out/

    I’m a bit worried about Syndicate Out being orphaned now but it seems okay for my own use as I’m not afraid to hire someone or else fix it myself if needed. You might want to consider that.

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