Title: wordpress 3 network questions Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # wordpress 3 network questions * [puya4ever](https://wordpress.org/support/users/puya4ever/) * (@puya4ever) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-questions/) * Hi to everyone . I have few questions about wp3 network . I have set-up a network and I came with this questions : * 1. How can I use same theme for all blog networks **but with different** single. php and archive.php for each one ? * 2. How can I use a permalink structure for first blog without /blog in front of . * 3. It’s better (from the point of performance/resource usage) to use custom taxonomy type to obtain site.com/article site.com/tutorials , site.com/videos etc… or to use a network ? * Thanks. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-questions/#post-1530155) * 1. Child themes. Make one master theme, and then a child theme per site with their own custom two files (plus the style.css) and you’re done. * 2. You … kinda can’t yet. There’s a workaround (see – [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/398291](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/398291)) * 3. That I have no idea. * [Joey Kudish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkudish/) * (@jkudish) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-questions/#post-1530286) * I would think, but cannot back myself up on this, that having custom taxonomies is less heavy than a network * [pubwvj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pubwvj/) * (@pubwvj) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-questions/#post-1530291) * I use redirects for doing things like #3. CPanel handles this as an interface or edit .htaccess directly. * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-questions/#post-1530296) * re #3 – it depends. Who’s managing the posts? * Performace-wise? Either / or. * re: #2 – if you picked subdomains, then the main blog doesn’t get /blog stuffed in it. * Thread Starter [puya4ever](https://wordpress.org/support/users/puya4ever/) * (@puya4ever) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-questions/#post-1530297) * Thanks for replies . * #3 – Now, I have managing the posts but, in future someone else will do that. I want to know both points of view, performance and performance-wise 🙂 * #2 – Yes, I solved with this, I chose this solution with subdomains . * Next question if it’s possible (if not, I write a new function to do that); How can I do that: -I have two blogs via multi-site: blog1.site.com and blog2. site.com each other with different themes. -I’m in wp-content/themes/blog1-theme/ header.php and if I write get_permalink($postID); it will display the permalink from the blog1 . **I want to display a permalink from blog2** ! It’s like I simulate this function to blog2 . * That is an example, I will need to do that at some others functions, not only to get_permalink. * Hope you will understand what I want. Thanks you. * [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/) * (@andrea_r) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-questions/#post-1530300) * #3 – the only part where it makes a difference, performace-wise, is when you have thousands and hundreds of thousands of posts. * Pulling from one posts tables with 20,000 records = time hit. Pulling from ten posts tables with 20,000 records = less time. * Subdomains will also be seen as mostly separate sites in search engines. * As for the last question: * standard WP functions will pull info from the blog you are on. If you want to pull the exact same info in the headr area there’s a couple ways you can do it. * hardcode the links and don;t use php. Use switch_to_blog, then pull from the blog you want. this can get expensive though. * Thread Starter [puya4ever](https://wordpress.org/support/users/puya4ever/) * (@puya4ever) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-questions/#post-1530319) * Why switch_to_blog can get expensive though ? * I have choose to play with network site with multi site . A second question, a little offtopic if you can help me . How can add a field in wp-admin post page, and when I press publish button the content from the field to be inserted somewhere. Can you give me a short syntax or a plugin to edit to obtain what I want ? * Thanks you. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-questions/#post-1530324) * > Why switch_to_blog can get expensive though ? * The more database calls you make, the more ‘expensive’ things get, resource wise. * > How can add a field in wp-admin post page, and when I press publish button > the content from the field to be inserted somewhere . Can you give me a short > syntax or a plugin to edit to obtain what I want ? * See [http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields](http://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Fields) * Thread Starter [puya4ever](https://wordpress.org/support/users/puya4ever/) * (@puya4ever) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-network-questions/#post-1530326) * yes, but with custom fields I will insert data into wp_postmeta, I want in another table… it’s that possible ? 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