I hope to find some help here. Imagine the following scenario:
1. Wordpress WooCommerce website is hosted by HOST-DE under domain scenario.de
2. I want to make the site multilingual (multisite or WPML-Plugin) and every language gets it´s own local hoster (for SEO reasons) and domain. (f.e. HOST-CH and scenario.ch). So the hoster only hosts the domain and get´s content from HOST-DE?
3. Is it possible to get the content from HOST-DE displayed on scenario.ch?
4. If it´s possible, how can I prevent duplicate content?
german content only available under scenario.de and
swiss content only available under scenario.ch
What would you say is best practice?
Thanks in advance!
Jens
To achieve required functionality you need to setup multisite, so each domain will represent each language.
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I have two websites in different languages on one wordpress (multisite).
Pages from a site to another have different IDs, names (because of language), etc... And woocommerce is installed on both websites (meaning there are products).
I'm looking for a way to connect pages from site 1 to site 2 (and reverse) to show a link that would let users go from their language to another but arriving on the "same" page.
I know this is not the best way to have a multilingual website on wordpress but it has been installed that way and we are trying to figure out a way to connect these pages. Maybe that would be useful to someone else for another reason, that's why I'm asking it.
My first idea would be to add an input on the post (pages, articles, product) and fill it with the link of the "sibling". This is time consuming at first (to do this for all the content that is already online) but could work. Best way would be to have a select menu of all the other site pages to select the specific page/article/product but I don't really know how to do this.
And maybe.. maybe there is already a plugin that does that kind of thing, if yes, that would be great.
Thanks !
I've been looking for quite some time to find a Newsletter plugin for multi-author for a WordPress site.
Currently using a Multisite with MailPoet. This way, each author is assigned to a site and can build his newsletter without having access to other authors lists, posts and subscribers.
I'm currently looking to remove the multisite feature as it's causing more problem than it solves.
However, I'm still stuck and I can't find a decent plugin that will allow the author to build a custom newsletter from the WordPress backend - without having access to all other authors subscribers, posts and so on.
Mailpoet does everything I need, but it doesn't allow to associate lists and newsletter per author.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Well, I really have no idea how you might isolate each author all sharing one WordPress site... It's reasonably simple to show an author only their own posts, but assigning specific users to only one author would be a bigger beast to tackle. If multisite is working for you but you don't like the nuances of it (Totally understand by the way, multisite can be a pain to administer), I might suggest installing many instances of wordpress, one for each author, and using something self-hosted like infinitewp to manage it. It'll be a bigger deal to set up initially, but it might work a lot smoother for you.
Dear StackOverflow friends,
in a site with Wordpress and Woocommerce plugin,
I would like to change the URL of the pages of e-commerce in an SEO friendly structure and in particular I would like:
1) the individual product pages
www.mysite.com/product/productname
to become
www.mysite.com/productname
2) and the product category pages
www.mysite.com/product-category/categoryname
to become
www.mysite.com/categoryname
As regards the case 1 /product,
I have not found a plugin that could help me and I tried
A- to modify WordPress permalinks: inserting a slash followed by a dot /. products , URL takes on the structure that I want but the pages are no longer accessible and bring me an error of 'redirection loop'
B- to modify the .htaccess file, adding the following lines of code
// 301 Redirect Entire Directory
RedirectMatch http://testmywpshop.info/prodotto(.* 301) http://testmywpshop.info/$1
but probably I have not written/inserted that code correctly, because the site becomes inaccessible!
As regards the case 2 about /product-category,
I tried the plugin SEO Ultimate which has the function that suites my needs and I successfully converts the URL structure of product categories, but I'd prefer to get the same result without using it, because my friend wants to use SEO Yoast and there may be conflicts between these two plugins.
In conclusion, I wish URL wouldn't suffer broken links and redirections to be more acceptable to Google (maybe using the 301 redirection because it seems to be the only liked by robots) or even change the WordPress core code that determines the structure of the URL, but I have not been able to find it!
I read this Stack post and this Woocommerce documentation but I'd like to find an alternate way, if possible in your opinion.
I would also be happy to know your opinion about the usefulness of a modified URL structure, removing irrelevant words to the products sold in a e-commerce, to meet Google requirements (I found conflicting information about this subject).
Thanks for your advice and your help!
I would also be happy to know your opinion about the usefulness of a modified URL structure, removing irrelevant words to the products sold in a e-commerce, to meet Google requirements (I found conflicting information about this subject).
If you are looking to do this change to meet SEO Best Practices requirements, please note that this particular URL suggestion happened due to products that belong to multiple categories.
As such, urls that include categories can be detrimental.
www.example.com/product/drinks/milkshake and www.example.com/product/desserts/milkshake point to the same product. However, the problem here is not /product/ but /drinks/ and /milkshake/.
a WooCommerce site with a default product url like www.example.com/product/product-name is technically ok. I prefer to set my urls to www.example.com/shop/product-name as well as www.example.com/shop/category-main/category-sub/ as it is more descriptive. You can do this on WordPress Admin>Settings>Permalinks.
That said, if WooCommerce documentation says it's not a good idea, I usually don't pursue it. :)
Its possible to change the url structure, use a plugin for this.
old situation: domain.com/product/blue-trouser
new situation: domain.com/blue-trouser
or with categories
old: domain.com/product-category/pants/blue-trouser
new: domain.com/pants/blue-trouser
You will have to buy a plugin to get it this way.
I have a Wordpress site which is based in US (ex. www.example.com). We've been tasked to create a UK/GB version of the site which has it's own domain (ex. www.example.co.uk), but shares the same common pages/posts/backend. About 75% of the pages are the same on both versions but there will be a few sections (like About and Contact) where they are different to account for regional differences.
Example
US site (www.example.com) has 4 Pages:
Home
About
Services
Contact
UK Site (www.example.co.uk) also has 3 pages (2 different, 1 the same)
Home (The same as US, but the URL should be www.example.co.uk)
About (Different content, the URL should be www.example.co.uk/about)
Services (The same as US, but URL should be www.example.co.uk/services)
Contact (Different content, the URL should be www.example.co.uk/contact)
How do I go about setting up the UK/GB version of the site which use the same backend and most of the same content from the base site, but has a few page differences and different domain?
I'd use WPML plugin, it allows tranlations of posts, pages, categories, menus, and plugins that have language files. It will let your end use login from the same admin area, and then add translations to the existing content.
The tricky bit will be setting it up to work on domain detection, normally it works on a subdomain, or add's a variable to the end of the URL, like ?lang=uk
But that said it should be possible though with a bit of tinkering to setup something based on the URL. And the documentation is pretty comprehensive. Good luck!
It's also possible to make it differently. For our shops we pretend there's a new domain, but in fact there isn't. This also works for SEO because we do make sure the language tags and such are correct. We replace only a few parts such as a few javascripts and conversion pixels and then we are done. See for example on Keepershandschoenen-shop.be. This site is in fact a clone so we don't need wpml. We don't even need a wordpress, magento or whatever CMS installation...
So then you have the same backend, with .com acting as .co.uk also.
I have never used WordPress before but it seems to be the best package for user content sites.
I need to have a main site which has its own content but also be able to spawn microsites for a particular event.
These microsites will have around 10 pages and will use the same template and will need to have their content changeable.
In terms of url it would probably look a bit like this
main site - www.blog-x.com
microsite - www.blog-x.com/march-meetup/join
microsite page - www.blog-x.com/march-meetup/contact
Is this possible with WordPress ?
Thanks, Alex
If you by "use the same template" mean that the "microsites" should use the same layout and look like the main site, then see Shelly's answer above.
However, if you mean that you want these "microsites" to have different templates (but that the microsites' pages should use the same template), you're looking for the multi-site feature of WordPress. It will allow you to create new blogs (sites) in either subdirectories (blog-x.com/march-meetup) or on subdomains (march-meetup.blog-x.com). See WordPress Codex: Create A Network for details.
What you're talking about is simply adding Pages - not creating microsites. To get the URLs you want, all you'd have to do is create a new Page. (or even better, just create a category for each section, and post the relevant info to that category).
In other words, yes, it'll do what you want - but calling it a "microsite" is a misnomer.