{"id":266,"date":"2018-03-04T22:41:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/?page_id=266"},"modified":"2018-03-04T22:41:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:41:35","slug":"wordpress-multisite-page-url-versus-subsite-url","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wordpress\/wordpress-multisite-page-url-versus-subsite-url\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Multisite &#8211; Page URL Versus Subsite URL"},"content":{"rendered":"Last updated: March 4, 2018 at 22:41 pm\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo by kirstyfields\" src=\"http:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/computers-and-internet\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/133\/2018\/03\/eb34b40e28f0063ecd0b470de7444e90fe76e7d719b3114297f4c6_640_webpage.png\" alt=\"webpage photo\" \/>Someone building a WordPress Multisite might already figure out what I&#8217;m getting at. As you may or may not know, WordPress&#8217; Multisite Feature allows you to a create a WordPress Website with &#8220;multisite capability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That is, you can add as many &#8220;subsites&#8221; to the root site as you wish. Let me put it into perspective. Say your domain name is: www.yourname.com. That&#8217;s your root site.<\/p>\n<p>You can create unlimited number of pages on your root site. For example:<\/p>\n<p>www.yourname.com\/home<\/p>\n<p>www.yourname.com\/contact<\/p>\n<p>www.yourname.com\/products<\/p>\n<p>You can also create whole new subsites. For example:<\/p>\n<p>www.yourname.com\/yoursecondbusiness<\/p>\n<p>www.yourname.com\/yourtravels<\/p>\n<p>www.yourname.com\/wallstreettrading<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s say you create a page on your root domain called, for example, &#8220;honda-products.&#8221; Now you would have a URL that reads: www.yourname.com\/honda-products<\/p>\n<p>Cool!<\/p>\n<p>But what if one day you decide to create a &#8220;subsite&#8221; with the same name. So then you would have a subsite that reads: www.yourname.com\/honda-products AND a page attached to your root domain that reads the same way.<\/p>\n<p>Will WordPress warn you that you already have a page URL with the same name as the subsite you&#8217;re trying to create? No! I tried it already.<\/p>\n<p>What would happen then? WordPress would go ahead and create the subsite AND it would take preference over the page. 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