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Map additional domains to individual post categories with unique themes?

3 replies · Started by micks87 on August 26, 2020

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Hopefully I can explain this in a simple way. My goal is simple:

1. I want to do all of my posting on a single main site with a single domain
2. I want additional domains to map to post categories, with their own unique themes. This way a second domain would show content for one particular post category, with its own theme. But I would only have to post on the main site domain, and the additional domain would only show the specific posts for its specific category.

For example:

1. I have a main site, e.g. http://www.mysite.com
2. I have post categories, e.g. http://www.mysite.com/fishing
3. I want to map additional domains to the post category URL, e.g. http://www.mysite.com/fishing = http://www.ilovefishing.com
4. This way, the category of "fishing" would only display fishing-related posts, but with it's own unique theme, pinned posts, etc.
5. If there was another category of say hiking, ex. http://www.mysite.com/hiking, that would be mapped to http://www.gohiking.com, again with its own theme & only pulling hiking post-category posts

So two questions:

1. First, is this even possible? Perhaps with WP multi-site?
2. Does GeneratePress support this?

The overall idea is to have a single main site to post to, then custom domains that only show the specific category posts for that domain, with a custom theme. The main site would show all the posts from all the categories, then the additional domains would only show posts from specific post categories, in a custom GP theme for that particular website.

Ideally, this would all be done seamlessly, so I could just post to the main site & it would automatically update any related domains under their own themes for that topic. Not so much interested in sub-domains or sub-directories as much as just specifically mapping additional domains to specific categories. So a single database, but additional domains are filtered & mapped to one specific category, with a custom theme for that domains.

I guess post categories (ex. mysite.com/fishing) could technically be considered a sub-directory (not sub-domain) on the main site. But I'd like to be able to custom the category domain with its own separate theme.

Yeah, you'd think filtering out specific categories to display on additional domains with unique themes would be pretty easy, as the database & themes are all shared via say a multi-site installation! Haven't found an easy way to do it yet. There are some syndication apps, but nothing nearly as push-button as I'd like it to be. There's a deluge of information available, but I haven't narrowed down the right keywords yet!

Half the battle can be finding the right question. And their sure is a hell of a lot of info out there. Hope you find what you're looking for.

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