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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?

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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.

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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: 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.

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  • Thanks for the response, I've been playing around with this but don't think I am 100% clear on what I can and can't do with this method. If I rewrite worklife.com to mainsite.com/work, can I still make the URL display as worklife.com? When I have tried to set it up I think I have basically setup an endless loop.
    – Chris
    Jul 20, 2011 at 2:30
  • This plugin may be useful for this task: wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rewrite-rules-inspector
    – brasofilo
    Jun 4, 2012 at 20:34

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