Advice needed on website structure

[tornado]

Hi folks.

I have a client coming on board who has hundreds of small gyms under a national brand.

Bearing in mind that I'm front-end (I may need to outsource any development but feel there may be an 'easy' way to do this), how can I create a page template that each gym can use to easily control only their content - opening times, image gallery, news etc.?

I have no idea how to build a responsive template that will look as good as a StudioPress homepage for each gym (for example), which, in my head, would look great.

And I need to ensure that any changes to the template are site-wide.

My current thought is to go multisite. That way, each gym will use the same theme for brand consistency and they will have exclusive access to their own homepage, with links and a navbar to additional info (such as latest news (blog), contact page etc.). That way, I set everything up for each gym and then pass control to them after initial training on how to manage their content.

I haven't used multisite before.

How would you do it?

Any suggestions would be awesome.

Cheers.

G

[Ren Ventura]

It sounds like Multisite may be the way to go since each gym will have its own content. I'm no multisite expert but I know that WPMU Dev is the #1 place to start when working with it. They have a lot of resources (blog posts, plugins, etc.) that will help you at least learn about multisite. http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/

You might also be able to do something like create a new user (author) for each gym (i.e. gym1, gym2, etc.), restrict content creating/editing to those users and create some dynamic templates that pull content based on the users' info. This would allow you to create one site and have a single page for each gym. However, as a full disclaimer, this idea was concocted by my inner WordPress-Frankenstein and, without giving it quite a bit of thought, I only have vague ideas on how to do it. It would likely require a lot of work depending on your requirements and may not be the cleanest option.

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[tornado]

Thanks, Ren. Good food for for thought! I appreciate your input.

G

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