WP multisite (subdomain) is the answer – http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network In addition you can install the WP Domain Mapping Plugin to run on other domains You need to decide whether you want WP multisite subdomain or sub-directory installation. WP subdomain does exactly what you want, but WP subdir + domain mapping plugin allows you to have both … Read more
Let’s establish the baseline: it is possible to have the main site in example-domain-x.com and all subsites subdomains in example-domain-y.com. You just add subdomain1.example-domain-y.com (or subdomain2.example-domain-y.com, subdomain3.example-domain-y.com) like you would be adding a bare or www domain in the domain mapping panel ( URL containing wp-admin/network/settings.php?page=dm_domains_admin ). To achieve the same programmatically, you could hook … Read more
Insights into WordPress Multi-Site, Domain Mapped, and Multilanguage site using WPML [closed]
I was in a similar situation recently. I ended up putting the root site on a random subdomain (eg ms.domain.com) With the intention of never using the root site. With that done, I created a plugin to activate only on the main (root) site. The plugin hooks into a action that fires only on the … Read more
i don’t know if it is the best method, but something i just did recently (having picked it up from an answer here) was to remove the menu page if certain conditions aren’t met and also to update the caps on all the removed pages so that they can’t be accessed by someone slick enough … Read more
Hi @centr0: “MultiSite” and “Create a Network” are the same thing in WordPress 3.x. Follow the steps found in Create a Network in a new subdirectory and this tutorial by Otto should show you have to map domains using the WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin (“MU” is the legacy description of Multisite, just ignore that … Read more
This may be incomplete information, but I’ve had problems with domain mapping on multisite systems with a similar configuration as posted in your question. First, I would look at the htaccess of the main site. Make sure that any redirects is not domain-specific, so it uses something like this: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on RewriteRule … Read more
This question is getting a little old, but since I came across it looking for other related things I thought it deserved an answer. The answer provided on that other link you included is actually the spot-on correct answer here too. It goes into more detail, but I will summarize here. What you want to … Read more
I believe that you have to go to the Network Admin (the ‘master’ admin), then Sites, then mouse over the site you wish to change, select Edit. So the process is not done from the sub-site’s Dashboard, but from the Network Admin dashboard. You may need to go into the Settings tab on the edit … Read more
I believe you should investigate using WordPress Multi Site. It will allow you to update and maintain a single site and database that will neatly store each subdomain’s specific info. Using DNS settings you will also be able to set up each subdomain to be seen as a separate entitity in Google’s eyes. Take a … Read more