WP Subdomains is a plugin for wordpress that allows you to setup your main categories, pages and authors as subdomains.
Other features include custom themes and site layout widgets.
- Setup main categories as subdomains
- Setup main pages as subdomains
- Setup author archives as subdomains
- Tie pages to categories so they only appear under that category or category subdomain
- Pick a different theme for each subdomain than the main site's theme
- Sitelist widget, a sidebar widget that lists the Category subdomains of the site
- Categories widget, a sidebar widget that lists the sub categories of that Category subdomain
This section describes how to install the plugin.
- Upload and Unarchive
- Copy the 'wp-subdomains' folder to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
- Activate the plugin in Wordpress
Upgrading
If Upgrading manually follow the above instrutions, but first deactivate the existing plugin.
This is so when you activate the new plugin it'll run any required updates.
Configuration
See the other notes.
0.6.9
Minor Fix
0.6.8
Bug Fixes
- WP 2.9 Support
- WPMU Support
- Show Empty Subdomain Categories
0.6.6
Added Features
- Have your main blog on a subdomain (e.g. http://blog.mydomain.com/)
- Tag filters, go to a tag page on a subdomain and see only those posts that are on that subdomain.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed big bug introduced by move to wordpress hosting where the database table the plugin needs isn't created
- Made some changes to try and reduce memory usage on large sites, more to come
0.6.5
0.6.2
Bugs Fixed
- removed use of get_post as it was causing memory and sql problems
- fixed issues with wordpress 2.8
0.6.1
Added Features
- Add options
- Keeping Pages on the subdomain, changed to an option for SEO reasons
- Removing archive status from Subdomain root pages
- Added
wps_on_main_index custom field to make tied pages still appear on your main blog. Useful if you have the subdomain indexes noindexed for SEO purposes
Bugs Fixed
- Now creates links for all subdomain pages not just five
- Fixed a daft problem that only put the first layer of sub pages of a subdomain page on that subdomain. Oops
- Fixed a problem regarding comments on 1st tier posts using /%category%/%postname% permalink
- Fixed a problem with filtering posts by category in the admin section
- Included an option to use a custom SQL query if you run into memory issues from large numbers of posts
- Fixed bug with IE and editing Category options
0.6.0
Added Features
- Keep links to non-subdomain pages that are not tied to a category on the subdomain we're viewing
- Date Archive filter, let you choose to have archives filtered down to the category of the subdomain you're on
- Added plugin setting option to turn on/off: Plugin Functionality, Date Archive Filter, Page Subdomains, Author Subdomains
- Display warning and disable plugin if no permalinks setup
- Support permalinks with %category% in
- Add author subdomains
- Custom Link title for Category Subdomains
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed a bug that made SEO All in One plugin work incorrectly on Category Subdomains