Domains and editing files for Multisites

  • navyspitfire

    (@navyspitfire)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    I am just looking for some clarification regarding multisites. I am working on two websites which I have set up as a multisite; the second website is essentially a gallery website where it will pull the images from the first website to display on it (as well as user profiles). Right now I am developing these sites live on my server before I migrate them to the live server eventually.

    My two questions are this: 1) Can each site has its own domain name? and, 2) How to edit files to the second website?

    1) I found these two articles (one, two) which outline how I will be able to give unique domains to each. I’ve skimmed through them because I won’t need to do this for a few months but it looks like it’ll work.

    2) How do files and file structures work on multisites? The two sites are using the same theme, but I think in the child themes I will want to develop custom templates. I don’t see any extra folders in the WP root directory (eg, public_html/secondsite/).

    Is there anything I should be aware of?

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  • jkhongusc

    (@jkhongusc)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    1) Yes. WP multisite does multiple domain as in second article.

    2) WP multisite uses the same WP core files to handle multiple sites. Each site (can) share themes and plugins. There are separate directories for the assets.. I think in /wp-content/uploads/<siteid>… (I run an older version that stores it in a different directory).

    The thing you need to determine is whether you really want WP multisite or multiple WP sites. WP multisite shares users, themes, and plugins across sites. There are some oddities when running multisite especially with registration, everything runs through the main site.

    Thread Starter navyspitfire

    (@navyspitfire)

    7 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you @jkhongusc. The reason I did multisite is because everything is done on the main site, and the 2nd site is simply a gallery website (only functionality is image filtering by cats/tags and a conact form)- it’s taking photos from the main site, as well as users’ profiles, and displaying them.

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