1 blog, 2 websites… = multisite?!

  • Resolved mamayani

    (@mamayani)


    12 years, 12 months ago

    Just wondering.. I am about to install my first WordPress (have experience though with CMS and PHP programming).

    I want to start a blog, and have this blog on 2 websites:
    e.g. https://www.example.com/blog (so part of an existing website) and https://www.blog.com (the wordpress blog will be a website). I do not need to access the admin site from the 2 sites, one will be sufficient, although it wouldn’t hurt to be able to reach it from both.

    The contents (posts, media, categories etc) will be absolutely identical, but templates would be different. Do I need to use the multisite feature for this?

    If anyone has some tips or knows tutorials on how to accomplish what I would like to do, I would be very grateful. Thanks!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Eeeeehhhhh.

    Okay, first up, it’s bad to have two sites, no matter what, with identical content. It just is. It’s bad for readers (who are now confused as to where they should leave comments) and it’s bad for SEO (Google will ding you in search results, as will Bing).

    Secondly, you could do it in Multisite ONLY if you install WP in the root directory (i.e. example.com NOT example.com/blog), used WP to run the extant site, and then made a ‘subsite’ for the blog and mapped that to blog.com.

    I wouldn’t do it, though. One site for the content. Period. Don’t duplicate, it’s bad.

    Thread Starter mamayani

    (@mamayani)

    Thanks for your answer! You’re right identical content isn’t good for SEO and might be confusing… I found that out too while googling for more info on this. So basically: I am abandoning this idea for the reasons you mentioned as well.

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