Using multisite for company branches and individual employees?

  • I am currently being commissioned to create a network of sites for a mortgage company and I am unsure of a couple of the multisite features and if this is the best option. I have watched a number of videos and have a basic understanding of how mulitsite works. So here are a few questions.

    I need three levels built. Ex:

    Company site –> Branch site –> Loan officer

    The company site will obviously be the main domain. Within that site, there are options to select a specific branch, which would be something like https://www.town.company.com. Within each branch site, there will be individual sites for each loan officer, https://www.town.company.com/loanofficer.

    Some questions about functionality. Will each loan officer be able to login to his/her respective website to add posts to their site? Does multisite allow strict privacy for each user, meaning each user can only access his/her page? I am assuming permissions and usernames and passwords handle this? Can newsletters and emails -most likely a plugin- be handled from branch sites and loan officer sites separately?

    As far as themes, how are the theme folders handled for each sub-domain and sub-directory? It will be necessary for me to change each one to display different info and stylesheets for each branch and loan officer.

    Hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me. Thanks!

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  • The company site will obviously be the main domain. Within that site, there are options to select a specific branch, which would be something like https://www.town.company.com. Within each branch site, there will be individual sites for each loan officer, https://www.town.company.com/loanofficer.

    multisite out of the box does only town.company.com or company.com/loanofficer.

    You could get what you want with a multinetwork plugin and make each subdomain a network with folders underneath. install as a subfolder setup and map the subdomains for the new networks.

    Will each loan officer be able to login to his/her respective website to add posts to their site?

    yes they get a standalone blog. multisite is what wordpress.COM uses to host blogs for people.

    Can newsletters and emails -most likely a plugin- be handled from branch sites and loan officer sites separately?

    ye,s when they are activated per site.

    As far as themes, how are the theme folders handled for each sub-domain and sub-directory? It will be necessary for me to change each one to display different info and stylesheets for each branch and loan officer.

    them folders are shared. if you make edits to the php & css files then every site using that theme gets the changes.

    this does not apply to things like widgets and theme settings, but you knew that. ??

    you can use a css plugin that works like the css upgrade at wp.com
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/safecss/

    further reading – the archives at wpmututorials.com

    Thread Starter chris

    (@brokeup)

    multisite out of the box does only town.company.com or company.com/loanofficer.

    You could get what you want with a multinetwork plugin and make each subdomain a network with folders underneath. install as a subfolder setup and map the subdomains for the new networks.

    Is there already a plugin for this, or is it something I would have to build? This will be a crucial feature.

    yes, there’s at least 3 that exist, which is why I suggested it. ??

    Thread Starter chris

    (@brokeup)

    Great. Appreciate the help Andrea_R!

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