Is Multisite a good way to break up one large site?

  • Lawrencio

    (@gregobrien)


    11 years, 12 months ago

    Hi,
    I run the site of a student paper which is starting to receive a decent amount of traffic, and it’s made me wonder if what I should be doing is breaking out the site into multiple subdomains to help keep traffic off the primary site, if say it’s one particular story people are interested in.

    In my mind the subdomains would link to categories i.e. ‘news. mainsite .com’, ‘entertainment. mainsite .com’ etc. I’m trying to figure out if this would be a good way to go it. The issue is I’d want it to have everyone login to the same wp login and not separate ones which if I’ve been reading correctly doesn’t seem to be the case.

    If anyone has an idea about how I would go about it, or if this is even a good idea, I’d really appreciate your thoughts.

    Best,
    Greg

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 12 months ago

    Multisite is good for making multiple, separate, sites. news and entertainment seem like good ideas, but at the same time, you have to remember that each site would get their own themes and designs.

    Now, if you want news to look different, then yeah, totally, AND you could use the WPMU Sitewide Tags plugin to pull in ALL posts to the main site 🙂

    But if you want everything to always be the same, all the itme, it may be a headache.

    Thread Starter Lawrencio

    (@gregobrien)

    11 years, 12 months ago

    Thanks for the comment Ipstenu,

    I would be looking for something that had the same look and feel, but more importantly we use a 3rd party system to post content so the category would have to define the subdomain. So I believe you may be right in this not being a good idea.

    Would you have any suggestions, whether a wordpress plugin or otherwise, to help breakup a large site to decrease load time?

    Thanks in Advance

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 12 months ago

    Even with Multisite you won’t be decreasing load time. A server under heavy load is … a server under heavy load. 😉

    I would start with optimizing the heck out of my server, and grabbing some caching plugins. Minify the CSS/JS of themes and plugins, strip down plugins to JUST what I need (get rid of some of the fancy stuff).

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