Couple questions about Multisite (beginner questions)

  • I’m planning on integrating multisite for a client’s website. He currently only has one WordPress installation for his blog in the /blog/ directory.

    Right now his website is static, but I’m redesigning his website and integrating a WordPress platform for him to edit his pages. On top of that, This client has 5 stores… and the idea is he wants each of those stores to have a separate WordPress installation, on top of his main website store. Each one is going to have similar content, but different keywords, services offered, and pricing due to demographics.

    Here’s an example of what I mean:
    https://company.com/ — Global website
    https://company.com/san-diego/ — San Diego website
    https://company.com/los-angeles/ — Los Angeles website

    At the same time, he’s receiving traffic from his blog (the only sub-directory hosted by WordPress):
    https://company.com/blog/ –permalinks are yyyy/postname

    Each store will have a dedicated homepage, but pull the top 5 posts from the blog directory:
    https://company.com/san-diego/ will display top posts from
    https://company.com/blog/

    The questions that I have are:

    1. Can pulling blog titles from a different wordpress blog hosted on the same server be achievable, as the example right above?
    2. Can the permalinks be /%category%/%postname%/ for the pages, but still remain as yyyy/postname for the blog?

      3. Thanks in advance!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    Don’t use category as your post slug. It’s bad for … Just read this: https://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/

    Also your page names will always be company.com/<subsite>/pagename becuase there are no categories for pages. Only posts.

    Quick notes.

    If you have WP installed in company.com, then by default, WordPress puts the slug blog in your main site (i.e. the company.com one) so your main page will be https://company.com and your PAGES will be https://company.com/pagename BUT your blog posts will be https://company.com/blog/YYYY/postname

    Pulling blog titles from separate blogs on a MultiSite can be done, but it can get resource intensive. I would do it via RSS personally.

    Thread Starter rssolo23

    (@rssolo23)

    Awesome, thank you for the tips and all your help. I didn’t realize I’ve been implementing Permalinks wrong this whole time.

    I’ll take your advice and try to display the top blog titles from RSS feeds.

    Thanks again!

    Pulling blog titles from separate blogs on a MultiSite can be done, but it can get resource intensive. I would do it via RSS personally.

    Actually, pulling info via rss across sites is even *more* intensive. ??

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