How to work efficiently build 3 mirrored networked sites?

Hello all,

We’ve setup a network of 3 networked sites on our WP install, and all is working fine.

Reason for doing is that we’ll be working in 3 languages (English/Japanese/French) and not satisfied with the language switcher plugin options.

The subdirectories are setup as blogname.net for the main site in English, blogname.net/jp for Japanese and blogname.net/fr for French.

The question I have is related to the approach to take when build the actual sites themselves. We’re using Astra Pro, and the same template for the 3 blogs, with Elementor.

However I was wondering if there was a logical way to build the same basic site structure for the three site by copying one site to the other, through export/importing or other.

We would first like to setup the same basic site structure / layout, and then tweak that individually later on for each language – but it would help greatly if we could copy / export-import the pages from the main site to the two others, rather then having to build each site individually from scratch, especially since they’re using the same template.

They’ll be essentially the same site, with minor differences introduced later on.
First attempts at exporting/importing pages from one site to another lead to broken display.

How should we approach this in a networked config?

I’ve tried plugins without any luck, then changed the page author name to “export”, exported the individual page where I’d made the changes, and imported that into the two other sites but the layout was broken, which I imagine must come from links/mapping.

Is there any smart way to work on the pages of one networked sites and have the changes applied to the other pages on the network, since we’re using the same template?

Or anyway to copy/export and import a single page layout’s to another networked site and not lose the layout?

Thanks a bunch!

Ben

Thanks

• This topic was modified 4 years ago by benkayo.
• This topic was modified 4 years ago by benkayo.