sub-domain restrictions
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We are looking at creating a site and registering a business plan to have the site hosted by WordPress. We are looking to create many sub-domains on this site. If we are using WordPress themes and plugins, are there any restrictions that we need to be aware of? eg. Maximum number of sub-domains, do we need to create new ns records for each sub-domain, or is this only required if you are uploading a custom theme?
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Hi there,
To answer the simplest question first, if your site is on our Business Plan, you can map as many subdomains to it as you want. Though I also want to note that if you map the root domain to us, we create a wildcard CNAME that covers all possible subdomains on that domain as well.
How you map the subdomains depends on whether or not the root is also hosted with us. If the root is mapped to or registered with us, and the name servers pointed to WordPress.com, you can just add additional mapping upgrades for the subdomains, and our system will automatically take care of the required DNS changes.
But if you want to use subdomains for domains not already hosted with us, you’ll have to add NS records at your DNS host to point those subdomains to us:
(Note this only applies to sites with custom themes and plugins. For a standard WordPress.com Business Plan site you can use the CNAME option in the previous section on that page.)
That said, how do youwant to use those subdomains?
While you can map as many subdomains to the site as you want, only one can be set as primary, and that’s the one that will appear in someone’s browser when they view your site, and the address at which search engines will index the site.
It’s not possible to map specific pages on a WordPress.com site to specific subdomains, as that would require adding rules to the server configuration, which is not possible on any WordPress.com plan. So if that’s what you’re looking for, we’re not the best hosting option for you.
In that case I’d recommend looking at a more traditional WordPress host like Bluehost.com.
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We are going to have the domain and the subdomains hosted on wordpress. The domain will be the primary and then each sales rep who signs up to use the site will have a subdomain that we create for them which they will be able to use to sign up customers and sell products.
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So each subdomain will need to be linked to a specific page/area on the site for the specific sales rep? Something like that is not possible on WordPress.com – on WordPress.com all the subdomains will just redirect to whichever one is set as primary, so they’ll all load the site’s home page.
So in this case it would be better to go with a more traditional hosting setup where you map and redirect subdomains to specific pages on your site.
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