Share Blog database over 2 wordpress domains

Hey @livelifemoving,

It is surely possible to share/pull content between 2 sites and there are various ways it can be done but it might not work with sharing the same database as it would probably need a lot of complex coding and changes to the WordPress core code.

I see that you are still in the process of setting up the mobile site and would like you to explain the need to create 2 sites with the same blog posts and possibly pages as well. The reason being that there are usually options available for designing the site into a responsive one (most themes do this) to ensure that the same site can be viewed on various devices as the site creator seems fit.

Hello, yes the mobile site is actually going to be for links that are embedded in a mobile app, so the header and site navigation will need to be different and as small as possible…and although the the is responsive..i don’t want to offer the same header and menu items within the mobile app shell

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by livelifemoving.

That is possible by making CSS tweaks for the site to show what you need to show in a mobile/tablet/desktop view. You will probably need to learn some coding (at least HTML and CSS) to get the best results but would be a much easier option than handling two different sites being used to deliver the same content.

thank you! I think I want completely different navigation for the mobile site…I’m familiar with html/php mysql…is there a way to change the mobile instlation of word press to use different database for blog content…or can I use the same database for 2 different wordpress installations without the same theme?

can it be done via RSS?

You can have a different mobile menu. It will depend on your theme’s feature to do so by default.

If it does not have it, you can do the following,
1. Register a new navigation menu. refer this and this.
2. Create a new menu in the WordPress backend, Appearance -> Menus.
3. Assign the newly created menu with the navigation menu.
4. Change the theme’s menu code to show the New Mobile Menu instead of the Primary menu.

And yes there is a default RSS feed feature available from WordPress. You can find it for your site here.

Do remember that if you chose to have 2 sites with the same content, you will need to do some things for SEO so that search engines do not consider one of the two sites as duplicates and hence rank poorly.

great advice..thank you!