Help With Multisites

  • Backstory: When I first hosted my site, I was very green and had no idea what I was doing. I write stories, and I thought it would be cool to make each story its own site so people could subscribe and get updates for only the stories they read. So, I enabled multisites and made them all subdirectories. However, all of the posts were named like this: domain.com/blog/thepost. In my settings, I had links to be named domain.com/thepost. I saw domain.com/blog/thepost as an option, but of course it wasn’t selected. I didn’t want this because I had a page named domain.com/blog which contains different content from everything else. Also, it broke all existing links.

    Concern: I turned off multisites because my host provider said /blog was just the way it worked. Now I am back to the point where I would like my stories to be on separate sites, but I know that because this is not a new installation my only choice is to have subdomains instead of subdirectories which is perfectly fine by me.

    Questions: If I enable multisites, will all my links contain that “/blog” in them? If so, I’m guessing the links will end up like this: story.domain.com/blog/thepost. If that is the case, I could do domain mapping so all the old links (on the top level) get pointed to the appropriate places on the subdomain?

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  • Rather than using multi-site have you tried assigning your posts to different categories? You could then direct your users to the category links and they would see the content relevant to the category only

    Thread Starter Jes2000

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    Of course. That is how my site currently functions. The issue is not what happens when they get to my site. The issue is the email notifications. I have JetPack installed, and 98% of my readers are WordPress.com users, so they all get an email for every post from my site whether they want it or not. I want to use multisite so they can subscribe to just the content they are interested in.

    Thread Starter Jes2000

    (@jes2000)

    Here’s a different way to ask this question, and hopefully it makes more sense. When I enable multisites, if I don’t move any of my current content to a subdomain, does that mean all current permalinks will be unchanged?

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