shelkie

It uses domain aliases, rather than redirects. Just set up your hosting so that all of the domains point to the same web root, and then you should be able to use the plugin to determine how each appears.

No, I haven’t looked at xml sitemaps at all with this plugin. I’ve added this to the todo list though.

Have’t run into the problem you mentioned with the search function. Seems to work okay on the sites I’ve tested. Is it working for you at all? I’m assuming you’ve tried searching for words that you’re sure appear in your posts.

Sure, take a look at this page:
https://www.smashlab.com/incubator/minimu

Custom tokens
MiniMU has a custom “tokens” feature that allows you to assign unique snippets of content for each domain. These bits of custom content may be plain text or HTML. Click “More tokens” to select an existing token name, or to create a new one.
The token value can then be used throughout your theme or within posts:
In theme files: <?php echo MiniMU::get_token(‘TokenName’);?>
In post content: {*TokenName*}

I haven’t tested it with the Google XML Sitemaps Generator plugin. I’d have to take a look and see how they could be integrated. This would likely play into what approach is taken to get around duplicate content issues.

That’d be great – let me know if you’re able to narrow it down to something specific.

Hi Alex,

Not sure what would be going on. I’ve only heard of memory problems when managing a lot (many hundreds) of domains with the plugin.
If that’s not your case, it might be a conflict with another plugin.
Is there anything out of the ordinary with your WP install/configuration?

Cheers,
Eric.

Thanks – glad you like it.
I haven’t tested it with mobile theme switching plugins, but I suspect that they wouldn’t play nicely together. I’ll put some thought into how it could be made compatible, or maybe even include mobile theme switching as a option as you’ve suggested.

Very strange – almost sounds like it might be an issue with your .htaccess rewrite rules?

Strange – believe I’ve replicated your configuration as closely as possible, but I’m not spotting the issues you are.
https://blog2.smashlab.com/category/blog2/blog-2-stuff-sub-category/

I can’t seem to replicate the issue you’ve reported with the search function. It works fine with our test site, which is configured in a similar fashion to yours. Try it if you’d like: https://minimu.smashlab.com

When you say that “wordpress navigation links you to the parent web”, I’m not sure which links you are talking about. Could you be more specific?

The duplicate content / SEO issue is tricky one. The point of sharing a category between domains is to allow you to have content appear on more than one domain. Obviously, this results in duplicate content that search engines will pick up on.

I thought of adding an option that allows you to choose between mirroring of the original content, or redirecting to the location. Or possibly adding rules to robots.txt to exclude the duplicate content.

I agree with your suggestion regarding category URLs. Ideally, we’d be able to remove the category portion of the URL if we’re already using a unique domain to achieve this effect. I’ll see if this is possible.

Feel free to sends suggestions for the plugin. Can’t guarantee when/if I’ll be able to incorporate them, but I’ll do what I can.

Cheers,
Eric.

Sure, each domain can have more than one category, so just create another category, assign all posts to it, and then assign it to each domain.

Thanks for posting this Daforino. Helpful for those who must manually configure Apache.

Have you had any issues using this plugin with WAMP?

Looks like you’re running WAMP. Could be an issue with the way Apache and PHP on Windows handle the $_SERVER superglobals, which can be different than linux platforms. I’ll try to find some time over the weekend to test this out.

Cheers,
Eric.

Could you try disabling xDebug and see if that has any effect?