Add Sub-Domain for Blog to a Standard Domain

  • Hi there.

    I currently have a WordPress site in the root of my domain (www.example.com). I also have an associated blog for the site using a separate installation of WordPress in a subfolder of the root (www.example.com/blog). I am in the planning stages of a complete redesign and I would like to use a Multisite Network installation for the obvious reasons of just having a single code base of WordPress.

    I would like the setup to be where the main “informational” site would be my standard based URL (www.example.com) but have the blog be mapped to a sub-domain (blog.example.com). Seems like it should be easy enough.

    However, after reading through all the documentation about a WordPress Multisite Network, they make it very clear that you can only choose a single type of installation. Either every site must be subdomain based, or path (subfolder) based. I may be misinterpreting the documentation, but if this is true, a Multisite Network option will not work for this purpose as I have mixed types of domains.

    Is there a way to use the multisite installation in the way described above? If not, is there a way to map posts (not pages) to a subdomain using using a plugin? Although, this method would be a last resort (or not used at all) because plugins come and go and it is much wiser to use something that is built into the the core of WordPress.

    Thank you in advance for your help.
    Adam

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    By default you can have your subsites be foo.domain.com OR domain.com/foo

    If you need more methods, like mapped domains, or sub-subsites, you can do that too.

    I would like the setup to be where the main “informational” site would be my standard based URL (www.example.com) but have the blog be mapped to a sub-domain (blog.example.com). Seems like it should be easy enough.

    With that, no, you don’t need to have subdomains and map things, you just pick subdomains and make blog … except you can’t make blog. FOr reasons.

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