Are you talking about a dynamic sub-domain? (IE sites.google.com, but with a variable where "sites." is). If so, this takes custom configuration on the server, so highly doubtful any plugin would be available for doing this. Probably you'll just have to find a programmer that understands Apache configurations and go from there.

There may very well be a pre-written script to do this, but you could also do it with PHP and MySQL.

I think the best way would be to create directories rather than sub domains, that way you could use PHP and MySQL to achieve the result which you require.

Hey @jeverette,

The others are right, you could do this via raw PHP and MySQL. That's a lot of work though and would require a lot of knowledge on the coding languages..

Have you heard of WordPress multisite?

It's basically where you can have multiple sites running of one WordPress installation, they all have their own dashboard so all content is separate.

You can learn more about it here in the codex.

What you're trying to achieved could easily be done through WP Multisite, and could easily be added upon with the help of the plugins available from WPMU Dev (They make plugins specifically for WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress, and themes too!..

I hope this helps and be sure to ask any questions you might have - I've used Multisite on a previous projects and I really like it!

- Joe Crosbie

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Try this 404 redirect trick - 404error.php

I develop and run a "Do It Yourself" website service which has produced over 17,000 websites using this technique.

A little programming background.

When a visitor goes to a webpage that does not exist, the server returns a static 404 error webpage - 404.html - "Page does not exist".

So if at facebook.com there was a member with a username of hottiebody, going to...

hottiebody.facebook.com

... the server would generate a 404 error and redirect to 404.html...

hottiebody.facebook.com/404.html

We use this built-in 404 system to parse and find the username by tweaking the "404" response page not to "404.html" but to a page "404error.php" page (in my case 404error.cfm - we use Adobe ColdFusion).

This can be done with .htaccess...

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /404error.php?%{REQUEST_URI}


Once the 404error.php page is loaded it does a couple things:

1. Make the url the username

thisUsername = CGI.HTTP_HOST
thisUsername = hottiebody.facebook.com

2. Strip out the base domain

thisUsername = Replace(thisUsername, ".facebook.com", "")
thisUsername = "hottiebody"

3. Database lookup on username

NAME getUser
SELECT *
FROM users
WHERE username = 'hottiebody'

4. Redirect depending on database look up

if database lookup getUser is successful
... display index.php using 'hottiebody' user info
elseif database lookup getUser is NOT successful
... display index.php using main website's info along with a "Oops can't find hottiebody" alert message.
... (in other words we never display the static 404.html)
end



So finally if the database search on 'hottiebody' is successful...

hottiebody.facebook.com

... would display hottiebody's profile page.

Since you (and myself) are doing websites...

hottiebody.jeverett.com

... would display hottiebody's homepage.

By using this technique you DO NOT Have to replicate your entire website within subdomains and/or subdirectories like...

jeverett/public_html/index.php
jeverett/public_html/images/logo.png

hottiebody/public_html/index.php
hottiebody/public_html/images/logo.png

dangerman/public_html/index.php
dangerman/public_html/images/logo.png

... for each user/member/client. With this technique everything is dynamically produced within one directory...


hottiebody.jeverett.com
dangerman.jeverett.com

jeverett/public_html/index.php
jeverett/public_html/images/logo.png


I hope this helps.

P.S. This is just a basic concept. You will need to modify it to your needs.

We allow members to setup their own domain names, so we also do database look ups on the user/client/members domain_name allowing hottiebody to have a custom website.