Create website with a switch between private and business

I'm about to set up a website of a certain company which has private and business customers.

  • There's going to be a switch (private/business) in the top left corner of the website.
  • Both sections have different main menu's.
  • A cookie should be set when visitor choose their customer type and customers should be redirected the second time they visit.

I just read about creating a Wordpress multisite for this. Is that the correct solution? Or are there other (better) solutions for this issue?

Topic switch multisite Wordpress

Category Web

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How I see you can implement this is:

https://example.com - This is the landing page/site where you have a menu on the top left and a user can choose "Private" or "Business". You can set a cookie based on what user clicked on.

https://example.com/private/ - This could be an inner page which has it's own template and loads a menu for private site OR this could be set up as a WordPress installation in a /private subdirectory

https://example.com/business/ - This could be an inner page which has it's own template and loads a menu for business site OR this could be set up as a WordPress installation in a /business subdirectory

Next time when user lands on https://example.com your landing page template shall read the cookie and redirect the user to appropriate site.

I hope this helps. WordPress multisite is useful if you need to offer similar WordPress websites to a large number of users. So check your use case and keep multisite as last option.

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Multisite doesn't sound like the right solution. What you wanna do is have two different Wordpress menus when you switch private/business. And then you can store the version of the site your customer was last viewing in a cookie (private or business).

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