In today's complex digital environment, many businesses and content creators often need to manage multiple websites, whether they have multiple brand sub-sites, different product line portals, or provide services for multi-language users.How to ensure that each site operates independently while also achieving unified display and efficient management of content at the front end has become a common challenge.AnQiCMS as an enterprise-level content management system, provides a powerful and flexible solution in this regard.
AnQiCMS multi-site capability cornerstone: unified management and independent operation
One of AnQiCMS's core advantages is its built-in multi-site management feature.This means we no longer need to deploy a separate CMS system for each website.In contrast, a single AnQiCMS program can handle and manage multiple independent websites.This greatly simplifies deployment and maintenance, reducing operating costs.
Imagine that you have a main brand website, as well as several sub-sites for different products or services, and even multilingual versions.Under the AnQiCMS architecture, these websites can be created, configured, and managed from the same backend.Each site has its own domain, content, template, and settings, but their data are aggregated in the same system instance, laying a solid foundation for content sharing and unified display.
From an operational perspective, we do not need to duplicate the program code when setting up multiple AnQiCMS sites on a single server.通常，通过像宝塔面板这样的工具，我们可以在同一个AnQiCMS实例中，利用“多站点管理”功能创建新的网站。/app/Under the independent subdirectory), and through the reverse proxy configuration (such as Nginx or Apache), different domain names are pointed to different site entry points of the same AnQiCMS program.This centralized management is not only efficient, but also convenient for future expansion and upgrades.
The key to unified display of content: flexible content model and template design
Implement the unified display of content across multiple sites, the first step is to ensure the structure and definability of the content.AnQiCMS provides the "flexible content model" feature, allowing us to customize content types according to business needs.For example, whether it is an article, product, event, or common question, we can define a set of exclusive fields for it.Even on different sites, if they all contain general content such as 'news' or 'products', we can create a unified content model for these content types, thus ensuring the consistency of the content structure, creating conditions for subsequent unified calls and displays.
In terms of front-end display, the template system of AnQiCMS plays a crucial role.It not only supports switching between multiple templates but also allows us to build and reuse templates by means of "template inheritance" and "code snippet reference.We can design a general basic template (base.html) that includes the overall layout, header, and footer of the website.block）to achieve personalized display. At the same time, for code snippets such as sidebars, navigation menus, etc., they can also be reused with tags to avoid redundant development.include标签进行复用，避免重复开发。
Cross-site content intercommunication: Tag and data calling
The core technology for realizing unified display of content across multiple sites lies in the powerful data calling tags of AnQiCMS and their support forsiteId参数的支持。AnQiCMS提供了一系列灵活的模板标签，如 EnglisharchiveList(Document List),categoryList(category list),pageList(Single-page list),linkList(Friendship link)、bannerList（横幅列表）、 Englishsystem(System settings),contact（联系方式）等，这些标签都支持通过 EnglishsiteIdthe parameter.
This means, on an aggregated main site, we can easily pull and display the latest articles, hot products, category lists, and even contact information from various child sites. For example:
- Aggregate News CenterIn the company's homepage, use
{% archiveList archives with siteId="2" limit="5" %}Call 5 of the latest news from the product A sub-site, and then use{% archiveList archives with siteId="3" limit="5" %}Call the 5 latest news from the sub-site of Product B to form a unified corporate news center. - Unified product displayOn a product portal website, use
{% categoryList categories with siteId="4" parentId="0" %}Tag display comes from the top-level categories of different product lines and is nested.archiveListTags further display the product details under each category. - Multi-language site switchingIf your AnQiCMS manages multiple language versions of sites,
languagesThe tag can help you generate a language switcher on the front-end, and users can click to jump to the corresponding language version of the site.
By cleverly usingsiteId参数，我们可以打破站点间的“数据壁垒”，将分散在各个站点中的内容有机地整合起来，统一呈现在用户面前。This not only improves the user experience, but also brings great convenience and efficiency to content operation.
Unified management on the back-end and front-end configuration
In AnQiCMS backend, we can easily add and configure new sites through the "Multi-site Management" feature, including site name, root directory, URL, admin account, and database information.It is necessary to note that although multiple sites are managed by a single AnQiCMS instance, they will usually use independent database tables or tables with prefixes to distinguish between them, ensuring data isolation.
Recommendations for implementing efficient unified management
- Plan for a unified content modelIn the initial planning of multi-site, strive to establish a unified content model for general content (such as news, products, cases). This maximizes the label
siteIdThe reusability value, reducing the maintenance cost in the later stage. - Design reusable template architecture：Using the "template inheritance" and "code snippet" methods to build the front-end template.Abstract common styles, scripts, and layouts into parent templates or shared files. Each site only needs to focus on the development of personalized parts, ensuring brand consistency and improving development efficiency.
- Use SEO toolsAnQiCMS has built-in advanced SEO tools such as pseudo-static, 301 redirection, and Sitemap generation.In a multi-site environment, it is crucial to plan and configure these SEO functions uniformly to enhance the overall search engine performance of the website group.
- Flexible use of multi-language functionsIf the target user involves different languages, make use of the multi-language support of AnQiCMS,
languagesLabels can easily build and manage multi-language sites, providing seamless content experiences for global users.
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Common Questions and Answers (FAQ)
Q1: Do I need to deploy a separate AnQiCMS program for each independent website?
A1:Do not need.AnQiCMS's one major advantage is that it supports 'multi-site management', which means you only need to deploy a single AnQiCMS program and you can create, configure, and manage multiple independent websites from the same backend.This greatly saves server resources and maintenance costs.New site is added through the "Multi-site Management" feature of the AnQiCMS backend and is pointed to the same AnQiCMS instance by the reverse proxy configuration of the server.
Q2: How to display the latest articles from all child sites on an aggregate page, such as the company's main website?
A2:You can use AnQiCMS template tags to do thatsiteIdParameters can be implemented. In the template of the main site, usearchiveListtags and specify different sub-sitessiteIdto call their latest articles respectively. For example:{% archiveList latestNews from siteId="2" limit="5" %}Can retrieve the latest 5 articles of the child site with Site ID 2, and then loop through this data.You can repeat this action to aggregate multiple contents from different sub-sites.
Q3: If my multiple site content structures are very different, can AnQiCMS still manage them uniformly?
A3:AnQiCMS's “Flexible Content Model” feature can well handle this issue.Even though the content structure of each site varies greatly, you can customize different content models and fields for each unique content type (such as "Detailed parameters of Product A" or "Articles in the News Center").AnQiCMS will provide the corresponding input interface based on the content model you choose.Although displaying significantly different content across sites may require more complex template logic, AnQiCMS can still manage these diverse contents centrally in one backend.