Multisite with no content in the root

  • Hello ??

    I want to run a multisite with .com/fr for France and .com/ch for Switzerland. And I wish the root .com to be something that redirect users according to their browser (or to be a simple page asking to chose a country).

    I wonder how I could do that since weeks ??
    1/ Where do you recommend me to install wordpress (root or .ch or .fr) ?
    2/ And how can I do for the root.com ? I wish to have a browser redirection in the root (but a browser redirection only in the root and not in the .com/fr or /ch pages). If this kind of redirection is not possible or not recommended I wish to have a simple page asking to chose a country.

    Thank you !

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  • Build the WordPress as the root domain…

    Convert to multisite…

    Add the two subdomains and get them both to work…

    Create a single home page in the root domain site with two buttons, links, menu items, or whatever you wish. The links need to point to the proper subsites.

    You’re done with the root domain for now. Build your two subsites as you wish!

    Thread Starter anto789

    (@anto789)

    So the main site will be the .com root.
    And it means there will be a whole wordpress site on the .com for just a home page to display ? If so is there any plugin or theme to have a light one page website ?

    You’re making this more difficult than it needs to be…

    If you really need that page to be ‘thin’ then create a single page with HTML and place that in the webroot for that domain!

    You’ll then need to create a second subdirectory to contain one of your two subsides and create a multisite with that then build out from there. The greatly increased complexity is just not worth the minuscule savings realized.

    The additional complexity to creating one lone HTML page that would look like the other two subsites just wouldn’t make sense. Especially when you consider the work required to bring that single page into the actual multisite later if your needs change or you change themes.

    The overhead to doing as I described with a full site on the multisite is nil and leaves things open to further uses of all three sites.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by JNashHawkins.
    Thread Starter anto789

    (@anto789)

    You are right. It makes more sense to do it with the multisite installation on the root.

    The problem is I don’t know how to make a wordpress one page only because there is always some stuffs on the index.php of any theme. Should I look for a plugin for that purpose ?

    I’d just create a page via the dashboard with just what I wanted there…

    My choice would be header… footer… probably a menu and maybe a sidebar. If you don’t want the sidebar then use a full page capable template or ask for help on creating a separate full page template in a separate topic… or just delete any widgets included in the present sidebar.

    Set that page as your front most page in settings –> Reading

    Set ‘Your homepage displays’ to the page you created.

    I’d set the two ‘feeds’ to 0 and 0 to suppress anyone finding your blog posts or RSS Feeds.

    For sitemap I’d just create a sitemap pointing to the other two subsites.

    That’s ‘good practice’ but probably not necessary for just two links but you’ll want sitemaps for the subsites anyway so why not.

    Don’t forget to kill the search box on that main page!

    Thread Starter anto789

    (@anto789)

    Okay !

    I will do that way and have a simple page on the root. Kill the seach box and set the feeds to 0.I will also try to install a geolocation redirection plugin to this root website.

    thank you ??

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