This is going to be complicated : Pathways in Multisite

  • This will take a minute to explain.

    I hired someone to install multisite for me. As a result, I barely understand this install and I’ve built a lot of basic WP sites. As it stands, we have a single domain with two subdomains. These work fine. Then we get to the blog…

    I don’t understand why the blog was setup like it is. In the top directory with the wp-admin, wp-content and wp-include folders, there is a folder called blog. Within that folder, there are the wp-admin, wp-content and wp-include folders for the blog. The problem comes when I try to share certain folders and database items.

    I am trying to make the blog look like the rest of the website. In addition, I want to share all the hyperlinks and functionality included in the main site. To that end, I want to use the header.php file from the main site.

    In the header.php file, there is this code:

    <?php $side_links_options= get_option(‘side_links_options’); ?>

    This pulls in some mouseover events and hyperlinks. It works fine in the main site, but in the blog those links actually point to the blog and not the pages they are supposed to.

    Why is this and how do I rectify it? I am willing to have two header files, one for the main site and one for the blog, but I want to use this get_option so that when I update the side links they’re uplinked for both sites without having to do it twice each time a change is made – which occurs on a regular basis.

    Thanks.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    It sounds like instead of making multisite, he made two installs. One in root, one in /blog. Which isn’t multisite. *sigh* I hate crap consultants like that.

    You can’t share images and database info like that, they’re separate sites totally. And truth told, even with multisite, the content is segregated.

    Thread Starter rwilliams1961

    (@rwilliams1961)

    Thanks, IP.

    Let me show you the site. This is a working page (non-blog): ringsunique.com/testimonials. The key are the thumbnails to the left. Notice that they each lead to a different collection of rings.

    Now go to the blog: ringsunique.com/blog. Notice that the thumbs on the left lead to the blog.

    You mentioned multiple installs. You’re correct. There is a separate login for the blog.

    So do you have any suggestions? Is there any sort of backdoor way to pull that content so that the sites don’t have to be updated separately?

    Thanks.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    There’s possible a backdoor, but I’d be loathe to suggest it.

    The whole point of separate sites is… separate sites ?? I would have done this as a straight up single install, and used custom post types, frankly :/

    This not being Multisite, however, I’m moving out to the How-To section.

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