XenCentral Multisite System

XenCentral Multisite System [Paid] 1.11.0

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In the XC multisite domain filter settings you can select which styles are available and which is the default style for that domain.
 
Can I confirm that you can setup the following:

1. Shared nodes or at the very least a shared category (of nodes) between Site A and Site B i.e. they show in both places
2. Different board titles and originating email addresses for Site A and B
3. Same theme but different logos/sidebar elements for Site A and B

For item 1 how are people overcoming google's duplicate penalty? Editing the robots to deny duplicate node/category crawling or is something built into the plugin?
 
Alfa1 said:
Yes, for all 3.

In regards to the google penalty: you can add a noindex metatag to shared nodes.
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Appreciate the quick reply. But adding a noindex will simply stop indexing of the node irrespective of which 'site' it's shared on no? I sort of want to index the content for Site A but not Site B. Or can I add noindex meta to site B's nodes and leave them as is in Site A (indexed)?
 
Is there a way for it to have the same # of registered users showing on each board?
Is there a way to show the same users online at each site? So if user JEFF is online at board Y, he also shows online at board X? I thought that was the way this worked, but the test board doesn't seem to be showing guests at least that way
 
digitalintrigue said:
Could you post details of how this is done, please? Thanks. :)
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The product allows you to choose which nodes are available in each domain. And if you choose the same nodes in both domains, and are also provided with a list of selected to choose the primary nodes. If a node is selected as primary, that means it belongs originally to that domain, and if it is not selected as primary, it will have "noindex" meta tag added to it and all threads inside it.

ichpen said:
Any observations on the performance hit of this addon? In case someone's got scientific on it :)
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We haven't done any benchmarking, but we never had performance complains regarding this addon. It doesn't do any additional queries on page load. We are always available for further optimization when a particular performance problem is reproduced.

kforo said:
Is there a way for it to have the same # of registered users showing on each board?
Is there a way to show the same users online at each site? So if user JEFF is online at board Y, he also shows online at board X? I thought that was the way this worked, but the test board doesn't seem to be showing guests at least that way
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User base is shared between domains, as it is actually just one XenForo installation, so number of registered users will be the same on both domains (but number of threads and posts will be different, configurable).

Showing online users on both sites or on separate sites is configurable option. It is disabled now on demo board, so you will see the desired behavior. We have sent you login details in Conversation to check the options yourself.

Thank you!
 
@XCentral Can you please fix the issue with your branding? Every time I upgrade or reenable the software the branding becomes visible again. Which has so far occurred 34 times for updates alone. Its easy to forget and Google has made clear that it will punish websites for it.
I paid extra to not have branding visible, so once its turned off it should not keep reappearing.
 
Alfa1 said:
@XCentral Can you please fix the issue with your branding? Every time I upgrade or reenable the software the branding becomes visible again. Which has so far occurred 34 times for updates alone. Its easy to forget and Google has made clear that it will punish websites for it.
I paid extra to not have branding visible, so once its turned off it should not keep reappearing.
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Thank you for the report. Branding shouldn't really become visible because of the upgrade. Please contact us in support center to check the issue.

Thank you!
 
Have you checked compatibility with the xf 1.5 function to disable addons? If i disable and enable then the branding is back again.
 
Is there any documentation on setup? I'm trying to setup a new domain with new nodes but let the user base from my other forum use the new domain. Pretty much the ability to use their account on both domains.

I have the 2nd licence for Xenforo. Do i add the new domain to the xencentral area or the first/main domain?
 
XCentral said:
By addon compatibility we mean support/enhancement of addon features, to make them multisite-enabled. Any other addons continue to function on the main domain (and most likely on secondary domains as well) just as they would work without Multisite addon being installed. Please note, that you don't install it on secondary domains, as all domains actually share the same installation of XenForo, all addons, users etc. are common in all domains. If an addon has licensing check for the domain, you may consider to contact addon provider and ask them to enable your secondary domains as well. There is no specific support for licensing of addons implemented in our addon.

The addons do not have separate database, everything is in one database, in one installation, but the links in navigation do not point to the main site, they point to addon pages in current domain. And if the addon is supported, you will find some additional settings when creating/editing a domain, that allow you to choose which categories should be displayed in a domain, to rename the categories in most cases etc.



Thank you for the suggestion. This seems to be good solution for nodes, and we will implement it soon.

Thank you!
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Actually rel=canonical is the preferred way of addressing duplicate content according to Google:

"Google does not recommend blocking crawler access to duplicate content on your website, whether with a robots.txt file or other methods. If search engines can't crawl pages with duplicate content, they can't automatically detect that these URLs point to the same content and will therefore effectively have to treat them as separate, unique pages. A better solution is to allow search engines to crawl these URLs, but mark them as duplicates by using the rel="canonical" link element, the URL parameter handling tool, or 301 redirects. In cases where duplicate content leads to us crawling too much of your website, you can also adjust the crawl rate setting in Search Console.

Mark up the canonical page and any other variants with a rel="canonical" link element.
Add a <link> element with the attribute rel="canonical" to the <head> section of these pages:
<link rel="canonical" href="https://blog.example.com/dresses/green-dresses-are-awesome" />"

BTW, when will this be fixed in multisite?
 
Is there any way to setup site-specific groups of styles?

For example:

Site 1 can choose from styles a,b,c.
Site 2 can choose from styles d,e,f.

I could also get by with forcing one site to use a style that's not set as "user select-able"
 
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