subdomain archiving/mapping

  • Relatively new to multisite, so please forgive my ignorance…

    I’m looking for a way in which my client can easily archive a WP conference site, by year, to subdomains.

    In other words:

    The site will be set up at https://www.domain.com for the client’s 2011 conference. In 2012, the client will use the same templates to set up their 2012 site, but before they do that, they’ll want to archive the 2011 site to 2011.domain.com. Then they’ll have that subdomain linked to from https://www.domain.com.

    As an example, check out https://evoconference.com. They have their 2010 site linked to from their current 2011 site, and clicking on it brings you to 2010.evoconference.com.

    Is there a way I can set this up via multisite? I can set up 2011.domain.com, but how can I make it easy for my client to transfer https://www.domain.com to 2011.domain.com, once they are ready to implement the 2012 site?

    Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I don’t know how easy it’d be…

    One option would be to export the site from domain.com, import it into year.domain.com, wipe out the old data and start over…

    Another would be to make every conferance as year.domain.com, but make whatever year is current the ‘main’ site and then edit it per year.

    Neither way is really newbie friendly.

    No, not easily.

    If you look at how the wordcamp.org site does it, it’s exactly the way Ipstenu is suggesting.

    have the central site just link to whatever year is current. That is the *easiest* way, really.

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