THe main site if generally used as a landing page.
The main site can be your public front page and web site or company blog, with the subdomains/subblogs for each department.
eg.
mycompany.com
mycompany.com/purchasing
Roy
(@gangleri)
In my case, the main site is simply a welcome page. I don’t know if you can disable that main site. Perhaps using a redirect, but frankly, why would you want to disable the main site?
I usually slap up a custom home page in the theme used on the main site to direct visitors further.
The primary site could serve a good purpose, especially if your subsites are similar in content and you want to share said content on your primary site’s homepage. A circle jerk of sorts.
By the way, I believe the aforementioned functionality isn’t natively supported in WordPress, however, Andrea wrote a plugin that allows you to “hand pick” select content from subsites and place it on the primary.
Rob
(@roballred)
is that plug in that andrea wrote released to the world?
For pay, yes.
If you want a free plugin to send all posts to the main site use this:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/
And I recommend you actually try that one first anyway. 😉
Rob
(@roballred)
I was more interested in being able to control which ones go to main site, and I like supporting developers with my business. If you don’t want to post your plugin that is cool.
No, it;s that the forum has rules about posting links to paid items. 😉
http://wpebooks.com/curator/
I just bought one of her other plugins and it turned out to be simple, yet very powerful. I’m very happy with it. Most plugins make things overly complex and unnecessary; this one, however, was concise, easy and very effective.
There, that takes Andrea off the hook for droppin’ a shameless plug(in).
Rob
(@roballred)
Sweet! thank you for the recommendation.
My pleasure, I like supporting them too.
