Wordpress site with multiple child sites

[Theldron]

Hi all,

 

Theoretical question. If I wanted to build a parent site in wordpress and create multiple separate child sites underneath with their own theme etc. How would I go about this?

 

I would like the child sites to be part of the main site for rankings etc.

 

Cheers

[Marci]

Wordpress Multisite... see https://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network & https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/ultimate-guide-multisite/ Edited January 21, 2019 by Marci

[Theldron]

Thanks @Marci. Would it be possible to ensure that everyone went through the parent site to get to the child sites? For example I did a sports site, but wanted a separate site for football, rugby, hockey etc. But wanted all visitors to go to Sports site to get to the others. Edited January 21, 2019 by Theldron

[Marci]

Depends - if all visitors have to log in, yes. You can knock up a plugin to redirect all logins to the root site (the WPO365 plugin does this for instance, if you’re integrating auth with O365 / AzureAD).

If visitors don’t have to log in and content is public, not easily.

Edited January 21, 2019 by Marci