Creating Website with Duplicate Design

  • multimediocrity

    (@multimediocrity)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hi! I have a wordpress website set up at a site (like example1.com) and I want to create another site (example2.com) with the same stuff as example1.com. Ideally, I would like to create a WordPress install on example2 which calls all the files in the database from example1, but I’m not sure if that’s possible, practical, or if there’s a better way to do it.

    This is what I’m planning to do:
    We have a website with multiple smaller websites. We want the smaller websites to have similar headers and footers to the main website. When I make an update to the master website’s header, I want it to show on all the smaller websites too. I also want each of the smaller websites to have its own navigation unique to itself, and don’t want to give control for admins of the smaller website to affect the main website. Multisite is an option, but I don’t want to crowd my main website with other sites. It’s hard enough to manage as it is, and Multisite complicates things quickly.

    This is what I’ve tried:
    I’ve tried creating include files. I’ve also made a main navigation read from another site using a lot of complicated PHP, but it’s not complete or practical. I’ve also tried modifying multisite, but that too isn’t practical the way I did it. I’ve looked on help forums extensively to find a way to link one site’s files to another (so that my example2 site calls the files and database in my example1). Didn’t really seem like WordPress works that way, but this was the closest I came to doing what I want to do.

    This is what I don’t want to do:
    This is not a copy. I want all changes on one site to show on the other without having to move files all the time. This is not multisite. I want to avoid having a bunch of sites on my existing site. Besides, it’s on a different domain.

    Any ideas? I’m sure I’m not the first to want to do this. I’ve wanted to do something like this for several others sites I’ve built in the past, so I’m sure this is common.

    Thanks!
    M

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    You are actually describing what the ww.wp.xz.cn site does.
    The theme on the main site generates the header, with the menu, and the other sites have a theme that loads the header from the main site. This is open source code, so you can look at it, if you want. I’m not sure of the address right off the top of my head, though.

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