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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition
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WordPress All-in-One For Dummies, 5th Edition

by Lisa Sabin-Wilson
February 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
608 pages
14h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 6

Using Multiple Domains within Your Network

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Discovering domain mapping

Bullet Understanding how to map domains

Bullet Setting up multiple networks

With a network of multiple sites easily available in WordPress, many people prefer to run multiple sites on their own separate domain names through one install.

In this chapter, I discuss using multiple domains and a feature called domain mapping, which enables you to not only run multiple sites, but also multiple sites with unique domain names that aren’t tied to the main site’s installation domain.

To tackle this chapter, you need to understand basic information about domain names (see Book 2, Chapter 1).

Finding Your Way with Domain Mapping

Domain mapping means telling your web server which domains you want WordPress to answer to and which site you want to be shown to visitors when they request that domain. This process is more than domain forwarding or masking, because the URLs for your posts have the full domain name in them. Instead of the child site’s being in secondsite.yourdomain.com format, it can be in myotherdomain.com.

Domain mapping isn’t possible in certain cases, however. If your WordPress install is in a ...

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