Title: Questions about Multisite/Networking
Last modified: January 25, 2024

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# Questions about Multisite/Networking

 *  [raphiiwarren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raphiiwarren/)
 * (@raphiiwarren)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-about-multisite-networking/)
 * Hello everyone, I didn’t really know which sub-forum to use for these questions,
   but ultimately decided to post in this one.
 * I am working for a motorcycle store which partners with three different globally
   known brands. These brands are requiring there CI-designs onto our site or sub-
   sites, to create a better experience for their global customers. Currently we
   are working with a company very much known in the DACH-region, but we are not
   really satisfied with their work, so we are looking to create our own site.
 * **The current way our site works:**
   – Landing page, with buttons to the subdomains
   for each brand– Brand subdomains are built upon the CI of each brand, subdomains
   are showing the vehicles/news of each brand– There is one “global” CMS system
   where we can set or own news/values/etc for all subdomains
 * **My idea**
   Basically I want to work with a similar approach, but with some more
   features:– The landing page really has no real effect on customers other than
   blocking them from directly accessing our content. Here I want to add more information
   about our company, which also will be shown on the subdomains, but with the correct
   CI-design per brand.– I want to implement a shop with wooCommerce. A new subdomain
   for the shop and if possible on the brand subdomains show only the products of
   the specific brand (I know that this is the wrong subforum, but maybe someone
   has experience with that)
 * **Why I am asking these questions**
   I already tried implementing shops/sites 
   with other cms-systems and at some point ran into issues after spending multiple
   hours with a working system. This time I want to be sure, that my idea is actually
   implementable before diving in head first.
 * I hope someone here can answer my questions and I want to thank every answer 
   in advance. Everything can help me 🙂
    -  This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/).
      Reason: moved to Networking WordPress since this is a multisite question

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-about-multisite-networking/#post-17376824)
 * Umm… what questions? 😛 (I’m kidding) I assume you wish to confirm your idea 
   is feasible within WP — it is.
 * You could actually install multiple WP sites on one server, each on its own subdomain.
   Or use the multisite option to do it all from one installation. Aside from multiple
   installations having a bunch of redundant files taking up server space, there
   is little functional difference.
 * Multisite sub-sites function as completely independent sites. While there is 
   an overall network admin area, it has little to do with individual sub-site content.
   You mainly can manage users and limit which themes and plugins can be used. You
   cannot otherwise affect content of the various sites from network admin. You 
   must go to the individual sub-sites in order to manage content.
 * It is feasible for different sites to share data since all data is within the
   same DB, albeit in separate tables. This would require a plugin or bespoke code,
   it’s not a feature by default.
 * Because WP is open source running on a self-hosted server, virtually anything
   is possible with WP as far as websites go. It will not hoover your floors for
   you though. There are plenty of themes and plugins to accomplish various tasks.
   If for any reason none of what’s available will do what you want, a bespoke solution
   is always possible.

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/questions-about-multisite-networking/#post-17376824)
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