wordpress permalinks with prefix for wildcard

Question

I'm having trouble trying to program into Wordpress a wildcard for the permalink structure. So for example, I'm trying to setup a permalink where the link is like this: foo.example.com/company. At the moment, the wildcard is in place for the URL (foo.example.com), but the permalinks are still under the root (example.com/company). Is there a way to program it so that the permalink will be matched exactly to the URL that is written. So if I entered in dsdd.example.com, the permalinks will display dsdd.example.com/company, etcc...

This kind of thing is way over my head, so if someone could provide some code examples of how to accomplish this, it would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your current setup is, but I can offer advice based on my prior experience with web hosts and WordPress.

If you want to have something where the subdomain (something.example.com) is a wildcard (thiscouldbeanything.example.com) and still point to your WordPress installation, you're going to have to get your host to set up something called a Wildcard DNS Record

From your description, you might have this set up already. If so, cool.

Using the wildcard is another story. Personally, I would go with a .htaccess file, and use mod_rewrite in order to have it use the wildcard subdomain to be used in the URL.

WordPress MU (Multi User) uses something along these lines to help you set up a subdomain network, and you can probably use their .htaccess file demonstrated here

Without REALLY specific information about your setup and goals, I couldn't be as much help as I wanted to be, but good luck!