Feature request: support of existing multisite setups

  • Resolved Arno Welzel

    (@awelzel)


    1 year, 10 months ago

    I have the following usecase:

    There is an existing multisite setup with sites A, B, C, D – each has its own domain but all sites share a single multisite WordPress instance, which is important since there is also PODS in use to provide data for every site (internally the blog is switched to the main site before the PODS data is read).

    Now the sites should be extended to be multilingual in the following way:

    A – German, English
    B – German, English
    C – German only
    D – German only

    The challenge is now, that MSLS is designed to use a multisite setup for only one site but multiple languages. However it would be nice if there was an option to tell MSLS what sites are connected:

    Site 1+2: A German and A English
    Site 3+4: B German and B English
    Site 5: C German
    Site 6: D German

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  • Plugin Author Dennis Ploetner

    (@realloc)

    Without knowing any detail that I can miss here: MSLS can use different reference-users too connect the sites that need tied together. I don’t know if Multi Networks could help additionally: https://ploetner.io/de/von-multisites-zu-multi-networks/ (Post is in German and Italian only)

    Thread Starter Arno Welzel

    (@awelzel)

    Thanks for the hint – yes, when adding an individual referefence user for every website, it works. So we now also have 3 users which never will be used for login, but only to tell MSLS which other sites are connected:

    • Site 1: Main site with network wide PODS data (content like images, database stuff etc. to be used one one or more of the network sites), Main user
    • Site 2: First site, German, User 1
    • Site 3: First site, English, User 1
    • Site 4: Second site, German, User 2
    • Site 5: Second site, English, User 2
    • Site 6: Third site, German, User 3
    • Site 7: Third site, English, User 3

    It looks a bit strange, but seems to work this way.

    I also read the article about multi networks – looks interesting, but does not really fit my current usecase since all websites must remain in one network due to the way how all sites get their data from PODS on the main site.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Arno Welzel.
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