Is it possible to make a WordPress.com site part of a locally hosted multisite?

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  fwwpadmin · Member · Dec 19, 2014 at 5:59 pm

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  We have a local WordPress multisite in our company’s internal network. Is it possible to add/link a WordPress.com site to our multisite so that we can broadcast posts from our internal site to the external WordPress.com site?

  We were looking at the domain mapping plugin to possibly do this but are not sure exactly how to configure it to connect to the WordPress.com blog we have setup or if it is even possible. Is there anyone there that could assist us?

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  thatrobyn · Member · Dec 19, 2014 at 8:26 pm

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  Hi there.

  I wonder if creating a subdomain for your site would be possible. If that’s something you’re able to do, you can map your WordPress.com blog to the subdomain.

  Here are the instructions for CNAME/subdomain mapping:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/#instructions-for-mapping-an-existing-domain

  I hope this helps! If you have any other questions, drop me a note. Thanks much!

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  fwwpadmin · Member · Dec 19, 2014 at 9:03 pm

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  Hi Robyn,

  Thanks for the reply! Sorry but I’m a bit of a noob with this domain mapping stuff. I’m having a hard time understanding the process in the link you provided. Let me provide some more details and see if that might help with an answer.

  We have a WordPress multisite on a Windows server in our company’s network. It’s not public facing, so at the moment it can only be accessed from within our company’s network. We can use a browser and reach outside websites from the server however. I have full super admin rights and have created a few sub-sites in the multi-site.

  What we want to do is whenever our internal staff publishes something on one of the sub-sites, broadcast that post to the WordPress.com blog we have created. We are using the ThreeWP Broadcast plugin to broadcast to other sub-sites on the multisite and it is working fine. Now we want to see if we can publish to and external site like our WordPress.com blog.

  Would we have to have a public facing site with a public domain name and make the WordPress.com site a subdomain of that domain?

  Or can we somehow add the external WordPress.com site as a subdomain of our internal multisite?

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  thatrobyn · Member · Dec 19, 2014 at 11:26 pm

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  Hey there!

  I see — I thought you wanted to create the posts on your WordPress.com site, and have them appear on your self-hosted sites, rather than vice-versa.

  You can’t actually auto-post to WordPress.com. You have to post manually to WordPress.com.

  Are you able to access the blog feeds from your internal site? If so, you may consider publishing the posts on a self-hosted WordPress.org site (this would be your public-facing site).

  There are plugins (this one for instance: https://wordpress.org/plugins/feedwordpress/) that will allow you to take the feeds from various sources and post them to a self-hosted WordPress.org site.

  If you’re not certain about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, this can help:

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  Would we have to have a public facing site with a public domain name and make the WordPress.com site a subdomain of that domain?

  If you have a public-facing WordPress site, you would not need to use WordPress.com at all, and you wouldn’t have to map anything. You can have a stand-alone WordPress.org site on a 3rd party server.

  I hope this helps somewhat. Because what you want to accomplish isn’t possible at WordPress.com, I suggest you post your question at WordPress.org’s support page:

  https://wordpress.org/support

  Additionally, there is a support forum that is specifically multisite-related:
  https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite

  Please let us know if you have any other questions. Thanks much!