Move subdomain installations to multisite

  • Hi there,

    I would need your help with consolidating two WP installs I have to one multisite, but I am a bit insecure about the best approach and don’t want to ruin any SEO I built up until now. The two sites are as follows:

    https://www.artweekenders.com/ and https://blog.artweekenders.com/

    The main reason for opting for this set-up back when we started with the site was to be able to have different permalink structures for the two sites (the blog showing date fr a newsy feel, the main site not for evergreen content).

    Currently they are on two separate installs, mainly because I couldn’t figure out how to set it up properly when I started… While I’m a bit better now technically speaking, the whole situation makes me a bit nervous.

    Thus, I would now like to or:

    a.) Move the two installs into a Multisite solution – I have it set up on the www site, just not sure how to move the blog to it; or

    b.) Move the blog to the Multisite but instead of having it as now a sub-domain converting it into a sub-directory solution. The main reason for this is to avoid future complications, and also because the new theme I have and working on to install requires separate licenses for sub-domains as well, so I’d like to avoid the double cost…

    What do you recommend for me to do?

    A third question:

    c.) What is the best solution for pulling content into the e.g. latest post feed of a sub-domain on the main domain? Thus, how can I get the latest post from the blog.artweekenders.com showing easily (widget or on pages) on https://www.artweekenders.com, and vice versa? The solution I used was with RSS feed, but I just read today that this is baaaad for SEO since it slows down the site big time. I read about the WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages plugin – but are there better solutions?

    Thankful for all the help you can provide me with!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Create blo2.artweekenders.com on artweekenders.com (yes, blo2!)

    Export everything from https://blog.artweekenders.com/ to blo2

    Run a search/replace on your DB to change blo2 to blog

    Get rid of (or rename to disable) blog and make sure the subdomain points to where artweekenders.com is installed (and not the blog subfolder).

    c.) What is the best solution for pulling content into the e.g. latest post feed of a sub-domain on the main domain?

    WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages

    If you use RSS you will kill your site.

    Thread Starter Villanova

    (@villanova)

    Thanks Mika. Sounds a bit complicated, but I think I get it.

    As a follow-up question:

    Would you recommend me to keep the subdomain structure, but on multisite? Or would you change it into a sub-directory structure? If the later, than what’s the best way for doing so?

    Basically, the main and only reason why I have different installs now is to be able to have two sets of permalink structures (with date showing on the blog, with no date in main site urls).

    Thank you!

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    It’s subjective. I prefer subdomains when I’m using it for totally separate sites that have nothing in common, and subfolders if they’re ‘related.’

    But also I’d just merge my blogs and have one site if I didn’t HAVE to have two.

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