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Has anyone tried running xxx.subdomain.yoursite.com? Confused? Read on..

WordPress MU is beautiful, simple and clean. Massage it with a little creativity and you can even build a brand with it.

I install my MU’s to run the subdirectory option. Subdir’s are great but I want to go 1 level deeper and offer categories. Let’s use geography as an example for mydomain.com.

1 MU Install: alaska.mydomain.com

Users get xxx.alaska.mydomain.com

1 MU Install: japan.mydomain.com

Users get xxx.japan.mydomain.com

1 MU Install: nyc.mydomain.com

Users get xxx.nyc.mydomain.com

Now my brand has 3 separate installations. What a pain, right? Not really! The user base of each MU install is completely different. The plugins, templates and vibe of each MU install is completely different.

Has anyone tried this hierarchy?

alaska.mydomain.com/xxx is not an option because you want to allow the domain mapping functionality.

Sun, 24 May 2009 2:11:23
  • drmike
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Last time I checked, you could sign up for xxx.yyy.mydomain.tld. Not sure if it still works anymore or not. I know we had a big long discussion on trac on what was allowed within a blogurl.

    May want to try the multi site plugin as well. Set up mydomain.tld as the main, additional sites as alaska.mydomain.tld, nyc.mydomain.tld, and japan.mydomain.tld, and do signups off of those.