Articles shared across a MultiSite Setup?

  • surrealrob

    (@surrealrob)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hello all,

    I am trying to gather some information before putting in a ton of work, doing it wrong, and having it all be for nothing.

    I believe I am looking to have a multisite WordPress, but am unsure.

    For an example, let’s say that I own a sports league. I want to have a main website, for the league itself, with it’s own URL, and it’s own theme.

    I also want to have a website for each team in the league, again with it’s own website URL, and it’s own theme.

    However, I want it to all be one “database”, and by that I mean, I want somebody to be able to write a news article for the team, but also have it show on the league’s website, in addition to the team’s website.

    In a real world example, let’s say I want to create a website for NFL.com, with it’s own URL and theme, but I also want to create DetroitLions.com, MinnesotaVikings.com, GreenBayPackers.com, etc. Each website would have it’s own URL, it’s own specialized theme, but I am hoping to have one website for contributors to log into and create articles, and I want the article that they write for DetroitLions.com to show up on both DetroitLions.com and NFL.com, without having to copy the article, or post it twice.

    Essentially, everything would be separate, URL, theme, etc, but the content would be able to be spread across more than one site. (The team site, as well as the parent league site).

    Hopefully that makes sense…

    In summary: A league website, and team websites, with their own URLs and WordPress Themes, but a single “source” for articles, where articles/comments for a Team Website can also show up in the news section of the League Website. (Perhaps also a single user database for users who register/sign-up to comment?)

    I will answer any questions to try and explain it better.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    You can read about the various ways to configure WordPress here: https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/article/installing-multiple-blogs/
    Be aware that a “database” is one set of credentials to send to MySQL (found in wp-config.php), but can contain many tables of data. While Multisite has one database, it uses different prefixes and so different tables for each subsite.
    Whether the posts for each subsite are stored in the same table or not, you can use plugins to query subsites for posts, or use the RSS feeds to show the posts.
    There isn’t an option that is like you are asking for: one database with one set of tables shared by all the subsites. (but you can share the user table)
    In order for each subsite to be unique (theme, domain name, options), it needs to have its own set of tables.

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