Sharing Page Content Across Networked Install

  • I have seen many posts and solutions where people have requested that post be shared across the network of multisite installs, but what I would like to do is share page content across all the sites in my multisite network.

    Basically the set up is that my client has a main portal site with a bunch of subsites, the main content created and edited on the main site should then also be updated on the subsites. My goal is to have the client only update the pages in one location.

    I have read in other threads that this is not possible through the wp_query function and I am not sure that the plugin that keeps getting mentioned would work for my purpose.

    I have seen many tutorials where people pulling WordPress content into non WordPress pages, so I figure what I am looking for must be possible, especially considering they share the same database.

    Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated, and if you need more details please let me know

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  • https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/menus-for-sub-directories

    You could try this.

    Thread Starter Chris Whiteley

    (@thewhite)

    Thanks Andrea,

    I will see if I can apply those ideas for my site. The challenge I have is that 5 of the nav items are global, but 2 of them are unique to each subsite. Also I am not sure how the snippet you sent works but I presume it duplicates the parent blog navigation which would have the user switching between main site and subsite. The main site and subsite will have a different theme, so from a visual standpoint this may not work (of course I haven’t tested yet, I am just guessing as to how the snippet works, please correct me if I am wrong)

    This is why originally I wanted to create a unique template page for each of the subsite pages where I just queried the page from the main site to pull in the content.

    Yep, it links to the actual main site.

    If you want to pull the content, you;d use the exact same switch_to_blog function aroudn the content area.

    I haven’t done it, I’m not a fan of this method, but it would literally be the only way other than duplication.

    each site in a network is a silo. Information is not meant to be shared across sites.

    Thread Starter Chris Whiteley

    (@thewhite)

    Thanks Andrea,

    I appreciate your help and pointing me in the right direction.

    I did dig up this article which I think will help me achieve what my client has requested: https://www.bigbigtech.com/2009/07/wordpress-mu-cross-posting-with-switch_to_blog/

    He’s explaining out exactly what I said. ??

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