I'm setting up a webshop at example.nl and I have bought another domain (example.com) which I intend to use for the English version of my webshop. I've set up a wordpress multisite to accomplish this, but I'm stuck. My goal is to set up as follows: NL = example.nl, EN = example.com, DE = example.com/de/. Right now the international websites, nor their wordpress dashboards are accessible, I think this has to do with the DNS records. What should I change in order to make this work?
You can choose different URL formats when building a multilingual website.
1. ccTLDs: Country Code top-level Domains
example.es (Spain)
example.de (Germany)
2. gTLDs: Subdomains with generic top-level domains
es.example.com
it.example.org
3. gTLDs: Subdirectories with Generic top-level domains
example.com/es/
example.com/en/
You need to use plugins like WPML and Wordpress MU Domain Mapping.
WPML Multi Domain Setting
Worpress MU Domain Mapping
Earlier in 2016, I used subdomain format for my categories:
example.com/category/food output was like; food.example.com and it was
a successful implementation with wp plugn+dns,wildcard settings.
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Is this possible to have multi language website by wpml that each language has specific domain without clone website to a new folder? I am using Language per parameter so it doesn't need to have different folders and use lots of storage resources , is this possible to use different domain and dont use extra storage?
Yes, as per their documentation:
...For example, if you have a German translation of your English
website, you can set it to have a different domain:
example.com → English
example.de → German
https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/language-url-options/how-to-use-wpml-with-different-domains-per-language/
Note: on top of modifying the WPML settings in the wp-admin dashboard, you will also need to configure the DNS settings correctly for both domains - that's on the side of the domain registrar.
I need to set-up 5 websites that have different domains as: naomisport.com, naomikomestic.com, ... each of them does have sub-pages & news... In term of design & functionality, they can share the same plugins, theme, users but I can not get my head around the choice of Wordpress Multisite & single Wordpress installation.
1. For single Wordpress, Can I have different domains per some specific page?
2. For Wordpress Multisite, can I have different domains name per website or does it have to be a sub-domain?
3. If I would go with Multisite, can I have the same Post management between all?
Please help if you have experience on this. Thank you very much?
Question1: Yes, it possible.
Question2: Yes, you can have multi domina or multi subdomain.
Add Several WordPress Multisite Blogs With Different Domains
This section assumes that:
You have a working WordPress Multisite installation
Your server has a static IP address
You are able to log in to your server console using a tool like PuTTY (Windows) or SSH (Linux and Mac OS X)
You own at least one custom domain name for which you can configure DNS settings
You have defined your primary domain and blog as described in the previous section and you are able to log in to the WordPress Multisite dashboard.
The WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin allows users of a WordPress Multisite installation to map their blogs or websites to other domains or subdomains (Scenarios 2 and 3). This plugin is already installed in your Bitnami WordPress Multisite stack since v3.5.1-1. If you’re using an older version, you must manually install the plugin using the plugin installation guide.
Question3: In wordpress multisite you have same panel but for every subdomain or domain you have separated management but you can have one username and password for management all panels.
For more information:
https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/wordpress-multisite/configuration/configure-wordpress-multisite/
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-install-and-setup-wordpress-multisite-network/
Alright, the primary domain is: gdengines.com. I also own .net & .org. I want it so if a user types in .net or .org it will display the primary domains contents. However, the LINKS will be for that URL (the easiest way to explain this is by using the following plugin as an example:
Multiple Domain (plugin page) - Multiple Domain allows you having more than one domain in a single WordPress installation. When there is more than one domain set in your host, all links and resources will point to the default domain. This is
the default WordPress behavior. With Multiple Domain installed and properly configured, it’ll update all link on the
fly. This way, the user navigation will be end-to-end under the same domain.
However, the plugin doesn't work with multisite installations.
I have WordPress MU Domain Mapping installed, but it's not helping for this issue.
Anyone know a fix other than setting up .net & .org to redirect?
You can use on the other domains .htaccess file with.
Redirect 301 / http://www.your-url.com
If you have to on each domain then redirect the vistor automatic to your main domain.
This is a Wordpress /Buddypress issue-----I have activated wordpress multisite so I can run the main the domain and add many subdomains on the one wp install—But when I added Buddypress to the network admin and network activated, BP did not show (or work) on the subdomain sites—How do I fix it so BP works on all my subdomainS added to the multisite network???----I have done some minor (my limit) coding to get BP to show on te subdomain admin--- can anyone help?
BuddyPress was built to transform a regular blog into a social network. There is an option to allow BuddyPress to be accessed from internal blogs in a WordPress Network, however it's limited because it just shares information across sites.
This means all your BuddyPress users will remain the same across internal sites. The way to do this is adding to wp-config.php:
define('BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG', true);
Be aware this only allows internal sites to access BuddyPress data using their own URL, for example:
http://example.com/members // Root
http://blog1.example.com/members // Internal site
Both of them will display the same information. Now, if what you want is BuddyPress multi-network, then you'd need to install BP Multi Network plugin which allows every internal site to have their own BuddyPress installation.
We have the Wordpress MU Domain Mapping plugin installed and have followed instructions to the best of our ability but we can't seem to get this working at all and I've tried everywhere to get advice but no-one seems to know anything about it...
Here's the scenario.
We have Wordpress MU installed at (eg) abc.com so each new Wordpress site we create is then at (eg) site1.abc.com, site2.abc.com, site3.abc.com etc. These are all virtual sub directories and Wordpress MU does not generate any physical sub directories for site1, site2 and site3.
What we wish to do, is purchase new domain names and map them to each one of these sub Wordpress sites. (eg) mynewsite1domain.com will be mapped to site1.abc.com so instead of the site appearing as the following in the visitors browser address bar...
site1.abc.com
site1.abc.com/about
site1.abc.com/contact
...the URL's would appear as...
mynewsite1domain.com
mynewsite1domain.com/about
mynewsite1domain.com/contact
This particular setup is on a VPS running Plesk CPanel, I have complete access to everything including SSH if anyone can advise how on earth this setup is meant to be correctly configured to function as explained above.
I'm guessing something needs to be done with DNS records, at the domain registrar for mynewsite1domain.com, we have the name servers pointing to the VPS IP that the Wordpress MU setup resides on.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Are you using WordPress Multisite 3.3.X or an older implementation of WordPress MU (or the MU plugin from a third party)? Likewise, to accomplish domain mapping, are you using the official domain mapping plugin from Automattic or another third party implementation? It sounds like you are using subdirectory vs subdomain multisite. That is not how domain mapping is typically used (the Automattic version at least).
You shouldn't have to point the new domain names to the server's DNS (unless you want it to be the authority), you'll just need to assure that the new domain names resolve to the same IP address of the main web server (an A record should suffice). The domain mapping plugin is pretty straight forward on how to map what domain name to what subdomain and whether you wish to have it redirect or use the new domain name in the address bar. The later would give you what you seek with mysite1domain.com/subfolder, etc.