Title: 2nd wordpress within same installation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 2nd wordpress within same installation

 *  [BankBank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bankbank/)
 * (@bankbank)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2nd-wordpress-within-same-installation/)
 * Hello everyone. My desire is pretty simple. I currently have a wp install here(
   [http://www.leagueoflegends.cc](http://www.leagueoflegends.cc) ). It is in English.
   A friend wants to make essentially the same site (but with his own content) in
   German. I will create [http://www.leagueoflegends.cc/de](http://www.leagueoflegends.cc/de).
   I’d like to use the same theme across both. I’m no WP expert, but it seems to
   me that there are two ways to accomplish this:
 * a) create a new wordpress and install it in /de . the issue here is that it’s
   another DB, more maintenance, and I don’t know how to share 1 theme across 2 
   wp installs in different directories. I don’t want to have to change the files
   of two themes each time I make a change.
 * b) we both use the same wp install and his posts somehow get ‘routed’ to the /
   de page. his /de would use the same theme. this seems simpler, and I hope there’s
   a plugin that allows two wp’s on the same install.
 * thanks, and if you need me to explain further, I can.

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 *  Thread Starter [BankBank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bankbank/)
 * (@bankbank)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2nd-wordpress-within-same-installation/#post-1164452)
 * as i consider it further, i’d really like to stick to option b, because if i 
   start adding other languages, having a new wp install for each one will become
   more and more difficult to manage
 *  [transpersonal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/transpersonal/)
 * (@transpersonal)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2nd-wordpress-within-same-installation/#post-1164460)
 * You need to use WordPress Mu to have multiple blogs under one installtion:
 * [http://mu.wordpress.org/](http://mu.wordpress.org/)
 * Never used it myself but I think it enables you to make changes to your theme
   once and have all the blogs using that theme take effect. And I’m not a 100% 
   on this but I don;t think your can edit themes in the backendof WordPress Mu –
   in which case you would have to edit them on your desktop and upload them to 
   your theme’s directory each time you want to make a change.
 * There are a few plugins for translation though:
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-translator/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/global-translator/)
 * Why not give that a try before translating your site for eachlanguage manuually.
 *  Thread Starter [BankBank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bankbank/)
 * (@bankbank)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2nd-wordpress-within-same-installation/#post-1164461)
 * I’m not looking to translate the site, it’s going to be a separate set of posts.
   The other guy, the german, will be running the content on his own.
 * will check out mu, thanks
 *  Thread Starter [BankBank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bankbank/)
 * (@bankbank)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2nd-wordpress-within-same-installation/#post-1164463)
 * it looks like mu is a separate piece of software. i’d like to, if possible, just
   keep my current wordpress installation. hmm 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [BankBank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bankbank/)
 * (@bankbank)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2nd-wordpress-within-same-installation/#post-1164490)
 * looks like wp-hive may be what i’m looking for.
 * although this ( [http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic.php?id=106](http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic.php?id=106))
   is interesting:
 * > While there is no official timeline for the merge yet, it appears that it is
   > being targeted for the WP 3.0 release. Based on WP’s past release schedule,
   > I’m going to take a guess and say that it will be within a year, but probably
   > closer to 6 months. There is a very good chance that this version will effectively
   > make WP Hive obsolete then.

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