Embedding Templates from Another Site¶

To embed a template from another Site, simply prefix the template group and template specified with the short name of the site you wish to pull the template from as follows:

{embed="site_short_name:template_group/template"}

So if the Site’s Short Name is “siteA” and you want to embed the “global/footer” template:

{embed="siteA:global/footer"}

Specifying Multiple Sites (prepare for a head trip)¶

Note: Specifying multiple Sites does not work with the {embed=”“} tag.

When using the site=”” parameter in the Channel, Comment, Statistics, and RSS modules you can specify multiple Sites like so:

site="siteA|siteB|siteC"

Like other ExpressionEngine parameters, you can also use ‘not’ to specify what Sites not to show:

site="not SiteD"

Let’s pause a moment to remember that each Site is independent of other Sites. This means you can have Channels that have the same short_name. The implications of this are far reaching and provide a lot of flexibility but will also require careful consideration.

For example, let’s say you have SiteA, SiteB, and SiteC. Each of these Sites has a “news” channel which uses the Channel Short Name of “news”. The following code would display the “news” channels from all the Sites:

{exp:channel:entries channel="news" site="siteA|siteB|siteC"}