Title: multisite and site localization
Last modified: March 15, 2019

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# multisite and site localization

 *  Resolved [andreadev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreadev/)
 * (@andreadev)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-and-site-localization/)
 * Hi,
    I’m building a website in two languages, italian and english. The url structure
   will be:
 * mysite.it/
    mysite.it/en/
 * The two sites will be very similar (same template and plugins).
    Users will need
   to be shared by the two sites. I don’t want to use multilingual plugins but make
   two distinct wesites.
 * I will build the main site before (italian) and then duplicate it and translate
   into english.
 * Multisite is a right choice to achieve this?
 * Another option I consider could be to use two different wordpress installations
   with two separate databases, but in this case is there a simple way to share 
   users?
 * I have never used multisite and I wanted to know if there are disadvantages for
   what I have to do.
 * Other solutions?
 * Thank you very much
    Andrea

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 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-and-site-localization/#post-11318477)
 * Some people just can’t get the ‘hang’ of running a multisite but it can be easier
   than running a pair of sites on the same host as you can treat most of the multisite
   as one host.
 * On the twin hosts side, if you wish to go that route, you can place both database
   tables in the one database using the ‘table prefix’ to distinguish between the
   two and then you can share the user table of one site with the other. This is
   quite good unless you need the finer grained user control of the multisite.
 * You’ll find plenty of documentation for this by doing a Google Search. [https://www.google.com/search?q=Sharing+a+user+data+table+with+two+WordPress+installs.&rlz=1CASUUV_enUS762US762&oq=Sharing+a+user+data+table+with+two+WordPress+installs.&aqs=chrome..69i57.23488j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8](https://www.google.com/search?q=Sharing+a+user+data+table+with+two+WordPress+installs.&rlz=1CASUUV_enUS762US762&oq=Sharing+a+user+data+table+with+two+WordPress+installs.&aqs=chrome..69i57.23488j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
 * The problem with a multisite is the user integration isn’t an automatic process
   but you do get individual role control for each site with that if you really 
   need it. I think there’s more info on this multisite user management issue over
   at [https://premium.wpmudev.org/](https://premium.wpmudev.org/)
 * So, if you need fine control over users at two sites then multisite might be 
   what you need. As a secondary bonus, multisite might make things easier for adding
   sites later if needed.
 * The twin installs sharing a userbase is cool if you need to just let the exact
   same users make use of both sites with the same role capabilities. The Cookie
   domain settings can help maintain state between the two sites if you need that
   feature… in other words, a login on one site is an equivalent to a login on all
   sites using that single user base.
 *  Thread Starter [andreadev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreadev/)
 * (@andreadev)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-and-site-localization/#post-11321000)
 * Thank you very much jnashhawkins
    Andrea

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 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-and-site-localization/#post-11321000)
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