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I have a multisite with subdirectory setup.

mainsite.com will have a woocommerce shop and a blog.

mainsite.com/support is intended as a separate blog site for faq or other support articles that are not of much importance.

I have made a theme with woocommerce support and custom front-page.php for mainsite and so far it is working as intended.

I want similar design for mainsite.com/support. Should I have to create a new theme for this site?

Right now, I used the same theme but front-page.php is taking over homepage of this subsite but I want mainsite.com/support show blog posts.

Another issue is, I don't want woocommerce and some other plugins for this subsite. I realize that only way to disable plugin on subsite is adding some code in functions.php, which means I need to make seperate theme for subsite ?

What is the best approach to this problem?

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I was stuck at this for hours. But apparently solution is more easier than I had expected.

I don't have to create new theme for the subsite.

To make subsite homepage show blog posts instead of custom front-page.php, I went to Settings > Reading and selected static page and set posts page to "Blog" and left homepage with nothing selected.

To enable plugin management for individual sites, I went to Network Settings and checked "Enable administrations menus".

Now I can manage plugin for the subsite without have to add any specific codes to functions.php.

Since Woocommerce is going to be disabled in the subsite, only change I had to make is to update sections of code in the theme that is relying on woocommerce functions ( such as title section in header.php ) to check if Woocommerce is active.

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  • that is frustrating - something like that could be enabled by default
    – majick
    Commented Apr 5, 2018 at 3:43
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I want similar design for mainsite.com/support. Should I have to create a new theme for this site?

If you can reuse the existing theme great, if you can create a child theme great, it's up to you and there is no correct answer here

Right now, I used the same theme but front-page.php is taking over homepage of this subsite but I want mainsite.com/support show blog posts.

Have you considered not using a subsite and having a blogs page named support? Or copying the theme and not using front-page.php?

Another issue is, I don't want woocommerce and some other plugins for this subsite. I realize that only way to disable plugin on subsite is adding some code in functions.php, which means I need to make seperate theme for subsite ?

This suggests you've not setup the site at all, that's not how multisites work. To disable a plugin on a site you go to plugins and click disable. Multisites are no different.

If on the other hand you've put WooCommerce inside your theme, and not in a plugin, then that is a major grave mistake. Remove WooCommerce and install it as a plugin as it's supposed to be installed. Themes are for templates and visuals, you should not embed plugins inside them

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  • I figured it out. Plugin management was not available for my subsite because the administration menus was not checked.
    – Nigel
    Commented Apr 4, 2018 at 16:51

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