Title: Multi-site friendly names
Last modified: April 28, 2022

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# Multi-site friendly names

 *  [staze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staze/)
 * (@staze)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-friendly-names/)
 * Have a small multi-site setup that I run for friends and family. The issue is,
   one of them has multiple sites, and the site names are the same, just their name.
   Looking at the “My Sites” listing, shows them all, including both with the same
   name.
 * Would really like to have a “friendly name”, that’s internal to wp-admin, that
   we can set a name for sites that isn’t reflected on the site itself.
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).

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 *  [Jonathan Bossenger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psykro/)
 * (@psykro)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-friendly-names/#post-15612032)
 * Hi [@staze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staze/)
 * I want to make sure I understand the problem you’re encountering here. The site
   name can be changed on the Settings page in wp-admin (under General -> Settings
   in the dashboard menu) by editing the Site Title field.
 * However, it sounds like you want a different Site Title when you are logged into
   the WordPress dashboard (or in this case, the friend or family member that’s 
   logged into the dashboard) vs the Site Title that displays on the front end of
   the site? Do I understand this correctly?
 *  Thread Starter [staze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/staze/)
 * (@staze)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-friendly-names/#post-15612637)
 * Correct. So if I have multiple sites within my multisite, one dedicated to say,
   artwork, and another dedicated to music, and both are called “Staze”, in the 
   multisite list, both just show as “Staze”. If I change the site name, that’s 
   reflected in the public site… so was thinking an “internal only” name so it was
   possible to (easily) tell the difference. =)
 * Thanks!
 *  [Jonathan Bossenger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psykro/)
 * (@psykro)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-friendly-names/#post-15617350)
 * I’m with you.
 * I don’t think this is possible out of the box, but it could be possible to use
   some custom code (in a plugin or [child theme](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/)),
   the [is_admin](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/is_admin/)
   function and the the [get_blogs_of_user](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/get_blogs_of_user/)
   filter.
 * Essentially you could check if the request is being done in the admin dashboard
   using is_admin, and then using the get_blogs_of_user filter, change the name 
   of each site in the $sites object.
 * I’m not sure what your level of familiarity is writing custom code for WordPress,
   so you might need to reach out to a developer to create it for you.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [Jonathan Bossenger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psykro/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multi-site-friendly-names/#post-15617350)
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