Multiple property sites using wordpress

  • So I’m trying to setup wordpress to allow me to view two properties I’m renting. At the moment we have static websites, both properties on separate domains and also a landing page to allow users to pick which property they wish to view.

    If I am to use wordpress, there would need to be a landing page with links to each site. Each property site would look the same but the content would be different. Separate news feed, different gallery etc.

    Would wordpress multisite be an appropriate solution for this or would it be easier to create two separate wordpress cms databases?

    Thanks in advance

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  • You are welcome. I would think this easily could be accomplished with one WordPress. Multisite / multiple databases is way too complicated for what you have described.

    Here’s just one possible scenario:

    Build the WordPress under whatever domain presently is the landing page. let’s say it’s example.com

    Build your new landing page as the WordPress front page.

    Build the two new property pages in the WordPress: example.com/property1 and example.com/property2

    Forward the two property domains to the respective WordPress pages:

    property1.com => example.com/property1

    property2.com => example.com/property2

    Depending exactly what you mean when you write “news feed”, you might need to get creative to have different one on each property page.

    Thread Starter OllieEvans

    (@ollieevans)

    Thanks for your response. Is there a way to create separate menus for specific pages. Obviously because each property has different information. For example, the prices page isn’t going to be the safe for both properties, so the navigation bars at the top would have to be different.

    Yes, there is a way to create multiple custom menus. It might require some php programming or some plugin to get them into the different pages (under the scenario i first wrote).

    After reading your response and the first post again, your scenario could well be accomplished using multisite with domain mapping/forwarding, the same WordPress theme would be used on all sites (or they could be different). And the separate menus and separate news feeds would be a breeze with multisite separate sites.

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