Sharing Selected Content in More Than One Place

  • I’ve seen several old (5 years ago) posts that deal with aspects of this issue, but nothing recent and nothing specific to my question, but forgive me if this has been covered elsewhere.

    I am putting together a multisite for several businesses I own. I’ll create a site for each business, and a site that will be a blog where I’ll write about some topics that are pertinent to the businesses, and some that aren’t. On each of the business pages I’d like a blog that collects only the relevant posts.

    For example:

    Main Blog – 3 posts categorized music, 2 posts categorized cocktail, 4 posts categorized food.

    DJ page – option to “view blog” where user will see only the posts from the main blog categorized music. Ideally these won’t be duplicate posts, so if someone reads a post on my main site and comments, he will be commenting in the same thread as someone who might want to comment after discovering it on the DJ page.

    Cocktail page – as above, except only showing posts categorized cocktail.

    To make things a tiny bit MORE complex, on the DJ page, for example, I hope to have two blog links– one that displays blog posts categorized “music” and another that displays posts categorized “playlist.” The playlist blogs WON’T show up in my main blog. They’ll only be in that sub-blog (if that is the correct term) of the DJ page.

    Help?

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  • I think you are stretching the capabilities of WordPress as it comes as a standard installation.

    Questions –

    Who creates the posts common to all of the businesses?

    Who creates the posts specific to a particular business?

    What would be the type of thing that would be in a post common to all businesses?

    What would be in a post for a specific business?

    What would be the ratio of common posts to business specific posts?

    Bob

    Thread Starter greggioia

    (@greggioia)

    I’m creating everything. I will have a main page that is my personal blog. I’ll write posts there on many topics.

    On each of my three business sites, I want to show only the posts that are relevant to that business. So, for example, I operate a mobile speakeasy bar. On the page advertising that service I’d like to include a menu option that says “blog” where the user can click and stay on the mobile speakeasy website, and see all posts I’ve authored and tagged “bar.”

    On another site, advertising my DJ company, I want something similar– a menu option called “blog” that does not jump the user out of the DJ page to my blog, but instead stays in the same page, with the same theme, and shows posts I’ve authored tagged “dj.”

    Right now, the only way I can do this is to jump a user out of the page he’s in and direct him to my blog page. That is clunky and unprofessional.

    I don’t want to double-post content. Partly because I want one conversation in the comments, and partly because I’ve read that it’s poor SEO.

    Thread Starter greggioia

    (@greggioia)

    This seems like the most basic use of a blog, yet I can’t figure this out. Does anyone have advice for me?

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