Multisite help needed for subdomain

  • So I have a site up and running (not a WP site) that I want to keep up and running at the main example.com site until the new WP site is built. I am building the new WP site at subdomain1.example.com and as I am adding plugins and features I am thinking I would like to redo this in it’s infant stages to multisite, so that:
    — I can use one theme for the main site and different themes for the subdomains
    — I can set up main site as the blog (news feeds by category, as well as pages of info, reviews, etc), subdomain1 as the BBpress forums and Buddypress stuff, and subdomain2 as a directory area for our company sponsors with geodirectory (a plugin that the main theme is not compatible with)

    My questions:
    1. Can multisite be set up for now with the “hub” at subdomain1.example.com?
    2. If yes, how do I do this and how easy/difficult will it be to migrate it to example.com when it’s ready? Does this add additional problems compared to building a single WP install at subdomain.example.com and then transferring it over? I have never done either and am a total total newbie, but I’m smart ??
    3. If no, what would be an elegant solution for now to getting a site built like I describe above away from public eyes and keeping the example.com content in place for now? The main site and the domain is hosted at Wix. The subs and eventually the main site will be at Bluehost so Wix is pointing these for now.

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  • I hope this helps…

    1.) WordPress multisite can be used to run and manage multiple blogs on the same install of WordPress.

    2.) Migrating content from one WordPress site to another is easy. You can export your posts, pages, comments, and media. And upload them to another WordPress site using the “WordPress Import” plugin from the plugin directory. You could also just change the domain name you’re running WordPress on from a subdomain, to your main domain.

    3.) You could use a maintenance page, but I’m assuming you want a live site, until you can finish building your new site. Building it on a subdomain is the best option, if you’re currently developing it. When you’re ready to make you site live, just change where you domain points to, change the WordPress url. And that’s it.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

    Thread Starter lehn6

    (@lehn6)

    So I can use a subdomain as the “hub” of a multisite network without problems? I was thinking you can only set the main site as your hub and not a subdomain. Is there any other significance to which site you set as a hub of a multisite other than it being the install that basically runs the others?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    So I can use a subdomain as the “hub” of a multisite network without problems?

    Yep ??

    The trick is that if you want to show the main site as domain.com but WP is installed in sub.domain.com, that gets messy fast. And it sounds like you want to do that.

    You should read https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Multisite

    Because you can’t just move Multisite like you do a normal single instance of WP.

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