Multiple FluentCommunity portals on a single website
Is it possible to have individual pages on a single website each with a completely individualized community portal? For example, my project requires initial sorting of website visitors based on specific city/town within a state. That would require me to list all 50 states of the USA as space groups, then every city/town as discussion spaces under each state. That’s thousands of discussion spaces forcing website visitors to scroll a long way just to find the city of choice for their private membership before they could post under a specific topic. Perhaps I could sort visitors to a state page where they select the city/town that takes them to their portal. I am open to suggestions. Thank you all.
Currently, I don’t see an option to run multiple communities on a single site.
Instead, I’d suggest checking if a WordPress Multisite (MU) installation would work for your setup. I’d recommend deploying the MU in a subdirectory structure instead of using subdomains, as this tends to be more stable and easier to maintain.
First, configure the main site with all the community features you’d like each community to have (e.g., Courses, Leaderboards). Then, use the free “NS Cloner” plugin to replicate the main site and create a subsite for each state.
One thing to note: in a Multisite setup, all subsites share the same MU user base, using email as the unique identifier. This means if a user registers on one subsite and later tries to sign up on another subsite with the same email, they’ll see the message, “Sorry, that username already exists!”, even if they haven’t visited that subsite before.
I found this plugin as a possible workaround.
However, I haven’t tested FluentCommunity on a Multisite yet. Maybe Shahjahan Jewel can clarify if Multisite support is available yet?
Thank you for your prompt reply and detailed recommendations. Will set up as you suggest and let you know if it works.