Multi-site yet single-site solution?

  • siege911

    (@siege911)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve used WordPress several times in the past for various different web projects and I love it, however my newest project doesn’t fall into a normal WordPress install so I’m seeing if there is a solution so I don’t have to switch software packages.

    I need a multi-site blog in which each site had it’s own theme on it’s own domain however, I want one control panel to be able to post among all the sites.

    Basically I have 5 top level categories as individual blogs. Each of those categories will have it’s own domain. The themes will be consistent in overall design among the sites but one will be green and another red and another blue… etc… to differentiate them. Occasionally a post will be cross-category and therefore need to be posted on 2 or 3 of the sites (or all for things like possible downtimes). Each site will also need sub-categories particular for that site in which the subcategories will be shown on the side menus but not the top level categories (those will be part of a general navigation to their respective domains).

    Is there any hacks that could do this? The only multi-site WordPress thing I’m familiar with is WordPress MU but it doesn’t appear to have cross-site posting from what I’ve seen.

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  • Maxaud

    (@maxaud)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    what if you use a post plugin similar to wp-o-matic
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/

    install that in each of your sites and set it up to draw posts from your main account and filter them into different categories on your child wordpress installs.

    Maxaud

    (@maxaud)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    also, just found this post which could help you accomplish this:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/176256?replies=7

    chaoskaizer

    (@chaoskaizer)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Not sure if this might help, if u want to imitate “Multi Blog” on normal WP i think you could define
    $blog_id = number // 0, 1, 2
    inside wp-config.php (with same db settings for all the blogs); this will let WordPress used the same database for all additional blog.

    assuming that u have 2 WP blog at john.whatever.com and hancock.whatever.com

    you should assign $blog_id = 0 for john.whatever.com and $blog_id = 1 for hancock.whatever.com inside their respective wp-config.php

    Maxaud

    (@maxaud)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    that will allow multiple blog installation into a database but they wont share any of the stored information.

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