Ok here is a setup I am aiming for, hopefully someone knows how to get me there:
- One WordPress Install on www.mainsite.com
- www.mainsite.com will be a landing page that points to two Category links: Work, Play
- Work Category defaults to domain www.worklife.com
- Play Category defaults to www.play.mainsite.com
- Any other WordPress Pages will maintain www.mainsite.com as domain (ex. www.mainsite.com/contact)
Right now the old blog resides on worklife.com, so I am hoping to prevent the URLs of individual postings from changing (ex. www.worklife.com/2010/01/01/post) as I migrate the install to mainsite.com
For now, I have built the site, and all of the loops and pages are functioning correctly. The only thing left to do is get the domains to play nice so I can make the move.
All of my research keeps pointing me towards creating a network, but I’m hoping there is a way to keep it all running on a single install.
Can it be done?
Did you check out WordPress’ Multisite feature? Simply put, it allows you to create a network of sites under different sub-directories, sub-domains, or domains. As with your case, each site in the network can work like a category.
This may be possible with a combination of website redirection and htaccess.
You can park (or addon) your domain names to their respective categories such as:
http://www.worklife.com goes to mainsite.com/work
play.mainsite.com goes to mainsite.com/play
Then, use htaccess to rewrite the URLs to show how you would like them to appear using this as a guide.