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Post Creative
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January 12, 2013 at 5:46 pm
I’m running EE on a multisite. All events are created on the core site. On the child sites I have info about the events and a link to the registration page.
I don’t want my user to leave that site and go back to the core site to register because of the break in branding and continuity.
I realise the registration form and payment confirmation page only exist once so is there a way that I can load the page template, header, footer and sidebar from the child site the event is listed on rather than the templates from the core site?
If this is a wordpress or php issue rather than EE that’s cool but if you have any tips for this It would be super helpful.
Are there any plans for more multisite integration?
Thanks
Nova
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Dean
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January 14, 2013 at 1:53 am
Hi Nova,
Currently there are no plans for further multisite integration, our present stance is that although EE can work with multisite it isnt designed to.
We are however looking at releasing an API for EE, which in conjunction with JSON could work very well for multisite users in this situation as you can pull the data over from one site to another. No timescales as yet on release, it is still being worked on.
You could use something like these (untested, just ideas):
http://wpmu.org/wordpress-different-theme-per-page-post/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jonradio-multiple-themes/
to force the site to use a different theme for the different events. It may even be possible to automate it slightly say based on categories, but I am guessing that would require a custom plugin created to enforce it.
You could use an iframe, though you would still have styling issues unless you make the event-registration template extremely plain. One issue with this though is most payment gateways especially offsite (Paypal for sure) dont work via the iframes.
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Post Creative
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January 20, 2013 at 5:40 am
Hi Dean
Yes it’s frustrating they should just have one website but different branding for their events is important to them. It’s not a single event they have branded differently, more a category of event – the same event runs multiple times in multiple locations across the country. I’m surprised that some of your other users don’t also have this problem.
I’ve solved the issue slightly by creating a post for the event and using a plugin to broadcast that event on to the child site where it adopts the style of the page it is on. I’ve also added the registration page to the post it’s self so that’s taken care of too.
The confirmation page is the only thing that is still an issue.
Would it be possible you think to make a shortcode out of the confirmation page content? I’m thinking if I did this I could put it on a page on my child site.
thanks for you feedback.
Nova
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Dean
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January 21, 2013 at 2:16 am
Hi Nova,
We do get the occasional request regarding this type of thing but not many. I think once the API is up and running it should definitely be easier what with the improved JSON access.
Regarding your shortcode idea, I’m not sure, havent ever tested it but it may be possible as the confirmation page is a template and the event_list_display.php etc can be accessed via a shortcode so why not the confirmation page?
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