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sevakshreyas
sevakshreyas

Reputation: 11

WordPress multi site installation

i have 3 self hosted wordpress sites in same machine but each one uses different url as explained below. 

publication.mysite.com  (wordpress site)
info.mysite.com (wordpress site)
flipbook.mysite.com (wordpress site)

now mysite.com is our primary company's website. it is a sharepoint site. because of this i cannot create mysite.com as our primary wordpress site.

i want to keep publication.mysite.com as our primary wordpress site and under this site bring the other 2 wordpress sites (multi-installation).

below is what in am trying to accomplish.

how could i do this? i tried to follow wordpress multisite installation documentation but i am stuck because i do not know how to setup as per my domain requirement.

another reason why i want to do this because of search. i have a global site search plugin from wpmudev. we need the ability to search from any one of our site to other 2 sites. for example: if i am searching for a 'productA'in one site, i need to display all post related to 'productA' from other 2 sites as well.

if there is any better way to perform global search like i explained, then i would like to hear about it

Thanks for help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 56

Answers (1)

O. Jones
O. Jones

Reputation: 108651

Your network-wide search functionality will be difficult to achieve if you must use separate databases for each site. It will require development chops that most people don't have. I respectfully suggest you reconsider that requirement.

Multisite search, in a single database, can be done with a plugin. For example. https://wordpress.org/plugins/multisite-global-search/

A WordPress multisite installation is designed to host sites with varying URLs. The migration isn't hard to do. You set up the target multisite system with three sites (blogs, WordPress's documentation calls them) in it. Rig the URLs for each of them.

This document explains the path to follow. https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network Multisite's administrative menu offers ways to configure the individual sites.

You then export the content from the individual sites and import them, one by one, into the target sites.

WordPress is decently well documented. Read this for an outline of the process of migrating to multisite. https://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Multiple_Blogs_into_WordPress_3.0_Multisite

Upvotes: 1

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