MultiURL, same website, other 'section'

  • Resolved frankbiemans

    (@frankbiemans)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    I have a question and hope you guys can help met out. I’ll try to ‘sketch’ the challenge as clear as possible:

    For a client we are building a new website. This client has a top level division, and three sublevel divisions. Each division will receive its own url (division-holding.com, division-a.com, division-b.com, etc). But, we want all the divisions run by the same database and managed through the same WordPress installation – so all the files and the database will be stored on the same server (division-holding.com). Please keep in mind that each division will receive it’s own set of pages (so each division has it’s own contactpage).

    What we want to accomplish is that division-a.com shows division-holding.com/division-a/ but stays on his own URL. And, furthermore, when the user navigates to another page the URL has to become division-a.com/contact-us/ (and not division-holding.com/division-a/contact-us).

    We rather not use the multi-site option because there a some post types which are used through all three divisions and i my experience with multi-site is that you have unrelated sites where the post types do not transcend (is that the right word?) the different sites (so if you have Product A for two sites, you have to add Product A to each site separately).

    Do you guys have any tips on the subject? Is it even possible? And will Google have problem with this SEO-wise? I would like to hear your thoughts on this matter.

    Thank you for the help!

    ~ Frank

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    What we want to accomplish is that division-a.com shows division-holding.com/division-a/ but stays on his own URL.

    That part is easy. Use a domain mapping plugin ??

    We rather not use the multi-site option because there a some post types

    […]

    in my experience with multi-site is that you have unrelated sites where the post types do not transcend (is that the right word?) the different sites (so if you have Product A for two sites, you have to add Product A to each site separately).

    You mean you want to share content between domains? Yeah, that’s always iffy with Google.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-subdomains-revisited/ is the only other mapping plugin I know of for non-multisite.

    But I don’t know of one with subfolders.

    That said… you’re asking this IN the Multisite forum ??

    Thread Starter frankbiemans

    (@frankbiemans)

    Hi Ipstenu,

    Thank you for your anwser. Sorry for the late response – I must’ve missed the notification. The “WP Subdomains” looks interesting, ill look into it.

    We got the website(s) running on different domains. Once we’ll go live the hosting we make sure the URLs show up in the right way.

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