The term “network” in WordPress is misleading. The sites created by a multisite installation are not interconnected, so they are not a network in any real sense. If you want them to be interconnected, you have to supply the interconnections yourself.
I run a small number of independent sites as a single multisite installation. I’m not sure that multisite is much of an advantage. Upgrading WordPress is a bit easier, but managing plugins and themes is a bit harder.
I don’t see any point in having two separate multisites, one for clients and one for pet projects.
Thanks Rod,
I guess the thinking behind having two is my own personal one including pet projects is where I am likely to be tinkering the most and if I break something at least it’s isolated from my customers sites.
I imagine there will some complexities when using multisites pointing/mapping domains and where SSL comes in as well?
Thoughts?
> I imagine there will some complexities when using multisites pointing/mapping domains and where SSL comes in as well?
This is a problem if you have multiple subdomains. You can only have one (wildcard) cert per domain. For example, you would need different certs for these domains:
*.subdomain1.com
*.subdomain2.com
You could have a single WP serve both domains, but there would be a lot of complexity of setting this up.
If your WP instance only serves one domain, then it is easy to setup and manage =)
Keep in mind – If you ever want to MOVE your clients away, it’s a pain on Multisite.
I would not use it for clients, personally, save in logical groupings (like all sites for ONE client).
