Title: Do I really need a multisite?
Last modified: November 12, 2018

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# Do I really need a multisite?

 *  [cpucpu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpucpu/)
 * (@cpucpu)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-really-need-a-multisite/)
 * What about switching languages in 2 independent WP installations? and manually
   setting up the “translated” URLs.

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 *  Plugin Author [Dennis Ploetner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realloc/)
 * (@realloc)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-really-need-a-multisite/#post-10870275)
 * You can do that too. I’m sure there is no problem to link small sites together(
   don’t forget canonical links).
 *  Thread Starter [cpucpu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpucpu/)
 * (@cpucpu)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-really-need-a-multisite/#post-10873379)
 * Really??
    Upon installation I got this warning “The Multisite Language Switcher
   needs the activation of the multisite-feature for working properly. Please read
   this post if you don’t know the meaning.”. I don’t see its link under the settings
   either.
 * What I meant was, connect 2 sites that are not multisite, through links.
 *  Plugin Author [Dennis Ploetner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realloc/)
 * (@realloc)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-really-need-a-multisite/#post-10874752)
 * I got your first questions wrong. I thought that you asked if you could do it
   without a multisite (and without the Multisite Language Switcher).
 * You have to have a multisite if you want to use the Multisite Language Switcher.
 * There are other multilingual plugins that work with single sites only.
 *  Thread Starter [cpucpu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cpucpu/)
 * (@cpucpu)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-really-need-a-multisite/#post-10877590)
 * Really? aside from [https://wordpress.org/plugins/language-switcher/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/language-switcher/)
   which is kinda paid, the rest seems abandonware.
 *  Plugin Author [Dennis Ploetner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realloc/)
 * (@realloc)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-really-need-a-multisite/#post-10878815)
 * I don’t know how to search for multilingual plugins but you could – if you want
   to use a single site only – start with Polylang which has 400000+ active installations;
   the plugin that you mentioned has only 10.

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 * Last reply from: [Dennis Ploetner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/realloc/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/do-i-really-need-a-multisite/#post-10878815)
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