I need help in changing multiple wordpress instances installed in distinct subdirectories into a single wordpress installation with multisite activation. Let me explain my problem briefly:
example.com is my domain Hostgator shared hosting
example.com/ - Homepage as index.php my own designed php file
examole.com/university/ - wordpress 1st installation
example.com/school/ - wordpress 2nd installation
example.com/exam/ - wordpress 3rd installation
The reason why Idid this is I need different menus on each directory sites. I found no option t odo this in single wordpress.
Now I went through an article about wordpress multisite ; can I migrate all wordpress instances into a single wordpress with same folder having same site and contents ?
I currently have 200 posts on each wordpress and I don't want to lose the SERP results.
Is it possible to do without any effects and for all those sites ? I am the only admin.
Were I can have different menus and themes for each site on wordpress multisite ?
How to convert this in simple beginner level steps?
You can do it , but before you need to get backup for the all websites, also import all your posts from all the wordpress installation
Create a Network in your main domain , for your reference Create_Network
Then create your child website, based on the
Sub-domains — a domain-based network in which on-demand sites use subdomains
Sub-directories — a path-based network in which on-demand sites use paths
so your child website should be like
examole.com/university
example.com/school
example.com/exam
Once you have successfully created your child websites then there would be a separate wp-admin for each child websites in your Main wp-admin, once you get logged in as admin ,
At the left of your WordPress toolbar, My Sites is now the second item. There, all your sites are listed, with handy fly-out menus, as well as a Network Admin menu item. Under Network Admin you can use the Dashboard item to go to the Network Dashboard screen.
then you can import your posts (already exported from your old websites) on each child webistes as possible ,
Hope this is enough to do it
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I've got wordpress site with installed theme. I want to create 2 sites with same theme, just differs only subdomain and menu and index page (just specific "page" in wordpress). How to resolve this? Multisite in wordpress or some other simplest way (or maybe multisite is the simplest way to do this)?
I've never used the WordPress multisite feature, but here's a good reference: https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network.
A multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same
WordPress installation. They can also share plugins and themes. The
individual sites in the network are virtual sites in the sense that
they do not have their own directories on your server, although they
do have separate directories for media uploads within the shared
installation, and they do have separate tables in the database.
From this point of view, I think it is the simplest way of implementing the same theme in both sites. Also, if you install WordPress in two different folders of the same server it will be considerably slower than if you use multisite.
I'm in a bit of a pickle... Is it possible to do this if Wordpress is in a folder?
Forum:
domain.com
Wordpress:
domain.com/blog
Woocommerce:
domain.com/store
My main domain has a forum running on it so I can't put Wordpress in there.
So it's in domain.com/blog and the store is domain.com/blog/store or domain.com/blog/product which I don't want.
Please help me!
Any sort of solution is welcome.
I am not completely sure, but I think you have 2 choices:
A multisite wordpress installation:
You can manage 2 web sites In one Wordpress installation. Each web site will have his own URL. Reference: Wordpress MultiSite
You can Also have 2 separate wordpress Installations:
The first one can contain the second one (I have already done that with a wordpress/woocommerce production website, containing a test website for SSL certificate reasons).
Update:
You can set all WooCommerce pages as subpages of your WooCommerce Shop (store) page. When WooCommerce is installed, it creates 4 pages: You Will rename 'Shop' page in 'Store'. You will make all 3 other pages, subpages of 'Store' page. Then you will have to edit all end points urls and some WooCommerce permalinks. You might need to use some redirection rules too in .htaccess file. The only problem is that you will have domain.com/blog/store/ as main url for all woocommerce stuff, because your main wordpress install is domain.com/blog/.
Yes I know that there is a plug in to bridge the two, but I want to keep them separate. Basically I want the nav menu in wordpress to point to a sub domain or a folder with the mybb forums. Everyone keeps telling me to use the plug in. Also if you add folders to wordpress, will it not just give you errors that those pages do not exist? So is a subdomain the best choice?
It's completely fine to keep the two separate without using the bridge. If you want a link to MyBB from a Wordpress menu, you can add it in the Admin Panel -> Appearance -> Menus, add a Custom Link to your forum URL.
By default, the .htaccess file in Wordpress will not rewrite URLs any folders/files that exist on the server. So it is possible to have MyBB as a subfolder in your Wordpress installation. However, it may be cleaner and easier to maintain if you have it on a separate subdomain.
I have three different URLS on the same server that need to share one WordPress 3.0.1 DB. I want to be able to add a new post from one main WP and the changes show up on the other two sites.
Is the change in config file (db table) enough?
First of all, I think you're confusing multisite and multiple Wordpress installs with one database.
Three Wordpress installs can pull from the same database. (But not "table", as you first said and I edited.) Multiple installs can work from the same database by using different table prefixes so each install doesn't collide with the other or get overwritten when the 2nd, 3rd, etc., installs get made. See Installing Multiple Blogs « WordPress Codex
But you're asking for trouble by trying to use three different URLs unless you go Multisite and share content in a different way.
What you should do is either use three Wordpress installs with three different table prefixes on one database with WordPress › FeedWordPress « WordPress Plugins to duplicate the content.
Or, Wordpress Multisite with three folders under one WP admin (requires a VPS with access to httpd) and WordPress › WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages « WordPress Plugins.
Or, Wordpress Multisite with three domains under one WP admin (requires a VPS with access to httpd and DNS changes for the separate domain mapping) with WordPress › WordPress MU Domain Mapping « WordPress Plugins and WordPress › FeedWordPress « WordPress Plugins to duplicate the content.
Be aware that duplicate content will also get your SEO penalized.
And, is this question so you can bid on this Elance job?: Have three URLS that need to share the same WP DB | Elance Job
I have a main site at site.com and several subdirectory "microsites" at site1.site.com, site2.site.com, etc. These are all on the same server.
Each site is set up in its own folder under public_html and each with its own separate wordpress install.
I'd like for each microsite to share the same top level menu (the page's menu) with the main site (I want the microsites to all use the main site's page menu).
I'm sure there are several approaches and I'd like to ask you for a few ideas.
As an aside, would the new WordPress 3.0 beta would make this simpler to do (since it combines wordpress MU into the main wordpress core)?
I'd probably just use symbolic links for this.
Put your shared files in another directory (/public_html/shared) and have the menu files for each sub-site be a symbolic link to the shared menu file.