Adding text before my domain name

  • Hi,

    I would like my site to offer “Print on demand” services.

    Essentially, I’ll list products for other people/businesses and whenever one of their products is sold, I’ll print it and ship it to their customer. In addition to creating product pages for them, I would also like to create a “Store” page for each person/business. The store page would be a page that had links to all of their product pages.

    Other companies who offer the same sort of “Print on demand” services will have the name of company (who’s products they are listing), before their own domain name. For example, if I were to implement that structure on my site for “companyA”, their stores permalink on my site would be: https://companyA.my-site.com. And if you click on one of the products in their store, the permalink would be: https://companyA.my-site.com/product-name)

    I have a VPS hosting plan through hostgator. I think the WHM section “DNS Zone Manager” is where I would add the text before my domain name. Not exactly sure what type of record I should add though and how that will be implemented on my WordPress site.

    Say for example, I add the record for “companyA” in “DNS Zone Manager”, then in my WordPress dashboard I create a page and name it “companyA” and publish it. When I visit that new page, will the permalink be: https://companyA.my-site.com/? If not, what do I need to do in order to accomplish that for new pages as well as existing ones?

    Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • I think you are looking for a multisite network. WordPress can be installed as a single site (most certainly do) or as a multisite. The multisite can make this available as a subdomain for each website within the installation. Each website can use its own plugins or centrally managed the same ones. You can find instructions on how to do this here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/create-a-network/

    In your case, I would recommend setting up a website within the multisite for each of your customers. You can set up the products with WooCommerce, for example – i.e. you create the respective products within the individual website and then have an ordering process for the customer’s customers.

    Thread Starter tkster95

    (@tkster95)

    Hi threadi, thanks for the suggestion. I may look into setting up a multisite at some point in the future. Although, with the premium theme and plugins I’m using, seems setting up a multisite could get expensive. That’s why, for the time being, I’m going to with a single site.

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