Appropriate Case For Multisite

  • charitablehumans

    (@charitablehumans)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    I am using WordPress to run/manage my small, but complex, non-profit organizations. We offer a wide, and growing, “features” that advances our mission. The biggest factor in our decision to use, or not use, WordPress Multisite, is with regards to the high number of plugins.

    The use of all these plugins seems to have a huge impact on performance, and even worse, create a chaotic mess of the sidebar within wp-admin.

    As an example, we have projects such as courses, volunteer opportunity / careers, product/service review, citizen journalism, Q & A Knowledge, etc. Along with these project-required plugins, we also have BuddyPress, bbpress, MyCred, Credly and the BadgeOS plugins, all of which tie into our project-required plugins.

    We are seriously wondering about using WordPress Multisite and separating content/features into its own WordPress “sub-site”. So, all of our online courses would be setup as an additional sub-site. This way, all of our online projects remain under a singe site, thus eliminating the need for users having to register and login separately.

    Is this the sort of use case where Multisite would provide the better deployment?

    Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Moderator Bet Hannon

    (@bethannon1)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Looks like no one has responded yet, so I’ll give it a try…

    This could be a good case for multisite. The plugins you mention like BuddyPress & bbpress could be activated either only on the main site, or individually for multiple, separate instances of their functions.

    If you use the same theme, and make links back & forth between the sites, some users might not even be aware that they have left your main site.

    You would get to separate your organization’s functions, but it comes with an increase in complexity, and not all your site content people might “get” how to manage the content.

    Thread Starter charitablehumans

    (@charitablehumans)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for responding. There really are so many factors to consider, and I’m still not sure if I would be better off one way or the other. I will be using the same theme for each site, if I go with the multi-site approach, but the menu was a big issue, until I found a Network Menu plugin.

    Thanks for the information, I think that your reassurance that this could be done in a multi-site approach was sort of what I was looking for.

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