Support » Networking WordPress » Multi-site or multiple separate blogs? Advice needed

  • Hi,

    I am currently running two blogs on a shared hosting account (with a dedicated IP). These were created pre-3.x and were configured as entirely separate WP installations. These sites are important to me and I would characterize them as follows:

    A. Work-related with 2 years worth of posts and reasonable traffic
    B. Personal oriented with 8 years worth of posts and limited traffic

    I have offered to host a friend’s blog too which brings the question. Should I create a new site C which uses yet a third WP installation or should I convert A or B to multi-site and add him there? Either way could work and I am hoping to get feedback on which approach I should use and why.

    Feedback on the process of enabling multi-site on a single user blog is also appreciated. Is everything maintained transparently for the existing blog including plugins, templates and URLs? My fear is that enabling multi-site on A or B could break that site.

    Thank you!

    JL

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  • Enabling the network does not break the site. 99% of the themes out there are just fine.

    What you *should* do is entirely up to how you feel about your technical abilities. If you want to bring them all under the same network, the second site will have to be pulled down and imported into the network. You will have a fun time with image URLS.

    Whether you want to do this depends on how bad you want to make more sites and keep it in one install.

    (Yes, I moved my own 10 year old blog into a multisite setup. 😀 )

    Thread Starter jl_678

    (@jl_678)

    Hi,

    I decided to take a middle approach and leave the highest traffic site alone and converting the low traffic site to a multisite instllation. The process went smoothly although I did experience one URL problem which I resolved. I blogged about the issue and resolution here: http://bit.ly/aqpu6l.

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