We’ve recently been engaged by Great Spirits (GSBC) to assist in website management. They have a corporate site (Great Spirits Baking Company) plus 5 product sites, which describe the individual product lines and products that are baked and sold on their sites (Baileys, Captain Morgan, Guinness, Jack Daniels, and Pallini). Their specialty is spirit-infused baked goods, and boy are they yummy!
Their sites were being hosted at their prior developer, so the first project was to move the sites to their Flywheel hosting account. We shortly discovered that it is a little too expensive to host six sites on Flywheel, so we began investigating how to merge the sites and still retain the styles of each site. In WordPress, this is pretty challenging, even though all the sites used the same theme (Enfold Child). The color schemes and menus are totally different, and even fonts are not the same. So we embarked on the task.
The first step was to provide conditional menus for each section. We left the main site (the corporate site) as the main menu, and installed two plug-ins to allow for the condition logic. The first is Conditional Menus by Themify; the second is Pages with category and tag by YAHMAN, which allows pages as well as posts to have a category. Since the Conditional Menu plugin selects the menu to display to be chosen by category, this provides all the functionality we need for sectional menus.
