eStore – Multiple Sites with one Database

[quadworks]

Hi there,

I set up my Software-Shop on http://the-crying-eye.com, and the German version on http://das-schreiende-auge.de which are Multi-Site WordPress-Domains.

Now I’d like to have eStore access one database, not two. It’s much more work to handle and update two different installations, not speaking of interpreting statistics.

So: Is it possible to use eStore with 1 database on 2 domains?

[wzp]

Unfortunately, no. Each installation results in its own set of database tables.

[admin]

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/wp-multisite-install-and-plugin-behavior

[quadworks]

Thanks for your answer. However, I have seen that entry before,

Isn’t it possible to change the database-prefix inside estore-plugin to point to a different site?

That would also be a great enhancement to the plugin, I think:

1) Install plugin in multisite

2) Configure plugin, and create all necessary Products on one (1) site only

3) Get the blog-ids from the network-admin-page.

4) Change the prefix on-the-fly from e.g. wp-multi_4 to e.g. wp-multi_8

4b) This has to be changed inside estore-plugins source.

5) Voilà, multiple WP-Blogs all with estore-plugin, one configuration, easy to maintain, cross-domain-store.

This way, you can have one estore-configuration for many different shops on one multisite-WordPress-blog. One user-database, one site to handle. If you sell software like me in German and English (for worldwide customers), this would be a great enhancement to the already great estore plugin!

[wzp]

Such a modification would be a major project, because of the amount of debugging and quality control testing involved. Here is a more comprehensive list of the considerations involved.

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/what-are-some-of-the-things-we-consider-when-adding-a-feature

The solution described by @Admin is simple and straightforward, in that each of your sites can link back to the main site.

Alternatively you could use a variation of the iFrame “tricks” that has been previously discussed.

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/how-to-integrate-estore-shortcodes-in-html-sales-pages

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