Title: One multisite, or single install   multisite?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# One multisite, or single install multisite?

 *  [jenriquez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenriquez/)
 * (@jenriquez)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/one-multisite-or-single-install-multisite/)
 * I’m helping a nonprofit organization set up their site – which would consist 
   of an online magazine at the root, and individual city blogs at nonprofit.org/[
   city].
 * I’m completely aware that setting up a multisite requires that the root site 
   permalinks be prepended with /blog/. My aim is for the permalinks to be .org/
   articles/[post_id]/[postname] and I’ve set it up as so, having changed the Network
   Admin > Sites > / > Settings permalink structure. And it’s working so far. However,
   I’m unhappy because this feels like a hack-y, brittle fix.
 * Would it be more robust to set up a single install at the root (which will provide
   me total control over permalinks) followed by a multisite install in a subfolder?
   Or will it be better/possible to keep a single multisite, set up an /articles/
   site, and have its wp_home set to root? Or is my current setup the best it’s 
   going to get? I’m more than happy to make a couple of permalink structure sacrifices
   in return for robustness. The only thing is that “blog” isn’t going to cut it
   as we’re treating the site as more of a magazine.
 * Thanks so much in advance for any help!

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