Pick one site as your main site. Pulse calls it the hub: it is the one where you want to watch everything. Every other site sends its visitors to it, so one Live View, one People list and one Chats page cover all of them, each site in its own colour. The same person on three of your sites is one person, not three visitors.
Your Sites on the main site:
On your main site, open 🔌 Connections. The card 🌐 Your Sites lists:
- The main site itself, marked HUB, with its domain, colour and public site ID. Its Get The Code shows one line for extra pages on the same domain that WordPress does not serve.
- Every other site, with boxes for its name, domain and colour, its public site ID and its last visit (with how many visits are stored). Each row has Save, Get The Code and Remove.
- At the bottom, Site name and Domain boxes and + Add Site.
Adding a site:
- Type its name (what you will see on the globe) and its domain, for example shop.yoursite.com, and press + Add Site.
- Its code opens by itself. Later, press Get The Code on its row.
- Paste it on that site, as below. Option A is for any site that is not WordPress. Option B is for WordPress.
Just the domain, like yoursite.com: its sub-domains are covered too. Each site gets the next colour by itself, and you can pick another with the Colour box and Save.
Another WordPress site:
Option B, the pairing code, is best for WordPress: logged-in members are recognised by themselves and the site's chats work too.
- On your main site, press Get The Code on that site's row and copy the code under OPTION B (it starts ravg1:).
- On the other site, install and activate Pulse. It needs no licence key.
- It opens on an activation screen. Scroll to the box Already Running Pulse On Another Site?
- Paste the code there and press Connect This Site To My Hub. That whole site now reports to your main site.
From then on the other site stores nothing itself. Its visitors show on your main site's globe in their own colour, its chats land on your main site's Chats tab, and your assistant answers them. Its Pulse tabs keep the Dashboard, Live View, Connections and Settings, and a Chat history (on your main site) tab takes you to your main site.
Updates for a connected site:
A connected site has no key of its own, so it fetches every Pulse update through your main site, which asks the licence server on its behalf. It updates from Plugins like any other plugin. If a connected site ever says it needs a fresh code for updates, press Get The Code on your main site, paste the code under Connect with a new code on that site and press Save Connections. Nothing else changes.
The box on your other WordPress sites:
At the bottom of Connections, the box 🔗 Send This Site's Visitors To Another Site Instead is that same pairing box. On your main site you leave it empty. It is only ever filled in on your other WordPress sites.
- Paste the Pairing code from your main site.
- Press 🧪 Test the code. It says whether the code is right and the main site can be reached.
- Press Save Connections to connect.
On a connected site, the box becomes 🔗 This Site Reports To Your Main Site, with Connected to your main site, 🧪 Test the connection, Open the hub, and Disconnect from the hub (this site collects on its own again). Tick it and press Save Connections to undo the link.
A plain HTML page, or any site that is not WordPress:
Option A on the same row gives you one line of code. Paste it before </body> on every page (a shared footer file does it once) and that page is on your globe, chat included. See Ten Sites, HTML, PHP and Protected Member Areas.
New key and Remove:
- New key, under Get The Code, gives the site a fresh public ID. Pages using the old one stop counting until you paste the new line.
- Remove takes a site off your list. Its past visits stay in the history, and pages still carrying its code stop counting.
A real example:
Yoursite's main site is yoursite.com. The owner adds Shop (shop.yoursite.com, WordPress) and pastes its pairing code on the shop. Members (members.yoursite.com, WordPress) gets its own pairing code too. Offer Pages (offers.yoursite.com, plain HTML sales pages) gets the one line of Option A in its footer. The Live View's By site list now shows Yoursite, Shop, Offer Pages and Members, and the Dashboard gets Your Sites, Side By Side.
Tips:
- The Dashboard's Setup list shows More than one site with how many extra sites report.
- Diagnostics, Your Sites shows each site's last visit and how many visits are stored.