Subdomain needed?
Hello I am wondering do I need to put FC on subdomain? I just playing with it right now and realize this then gives me a site I need to hide as the subdomain url goes through to the basic wp install theme. The portal is/portal.
So how are others doing things? Subdomain needed? If so best way of setting up so people are not hitting a basic wp theme.
Alternative is I put it on my main site but was a bit concerned it might get too heavy.
Most uses will find it better to use a subdomain, where the community (being the subdomain) supports something on the subdomain. This community is a good example. The "community" subdomain served WP Manage Ninja's business at the root domain.
My site is not on a subdomain and I haven't had any issues. I think there were some sitemap issues related to not using a subdomain but I think those have already been fixed. I chose to not use a subdomain because the site I'm building is a completely private membership site and all the content (FluentCommunity and regular WordPress pages, etc.) will all be made to look the same using the Theme Compatibility page templates.
I am setting up my community on a sub-domain. All I am doing is setting up a simple landing page and using that as the default home page. Then people can either sign-up or login from there. The benefit of this is you can also build it out with any content you want in the future (perhaps turn it into an actual sales page for the community.
I am not sure if there is a way to set the default home page as the actual hub login page. You could probably accomplish this with a redirect plugin. That would also be pretty neat as it would keep it super simple. I only started using Fluent a couple of days ago so its been a great learning experience for the past few days and I am tweaking and changing as I go.
Jason Soper You can put the community in the root by simply adding some code in the wp-config.php. You can find the details in the documentation.
J V good to know! Thanks.
Thanks all. I am not an expert on this so why I am maybe asking simplistic questions. First great to know others are also using subdomain, but then that brings the next question.
As I am using a subdomain with Fluent Community installed. Because I had to install WordPress on the subdomain to use the plugin, it's showing a basic WordPress theme. When users go to community.domain.com, they first see this default theme. I want them to directly access the Fluent Community feed instead. How can I set it up so the feed is the default page without displaying the WordPress theme?
James Robinson You can put the community in the root by simply adding some code in the wp-config.php. You can find the details in the documentation.