Title: Understanding Multi Site Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Understanding Multi Site * [Harley Davdison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harley-davdison/) * (@harley-davdison) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-multi-site/) * Hi, I am very new to WordPress and loving it so far. I have now converted 2 sites to WordPress for two of my customers. I am now intersted in creating a specialized site for my self. I am not sure how to go about this if Multisite is the right way or not. Here is a brief description of what it is I am looking to do if you could help me in my choice. * I ma looking to have a site that will be broken up into 2 sections. 1: A parent site that will be run by my self, in which I will be the only person to have access to any admin features. * 2: A section that will act alone. This area will have my self as the administrator to be able to control updates, maintain plugins, and basic maintenance. It will then have others that are able to create there own sections and have basic admini panel. These users can control the site some what. Add events, content, pictures, gallery. IE being given editor user level access. * I was going to do one site IE [http://www.mysite.com](http://www.mysite.com) where I controlled everything. And then produce full installations via subdomains IE site2.mysite.com. In each of those sites I would be the administrator and I would create a user role that would have access to the admin panel and would be able to do things like add pages, delete pages, add events, add images to the gallery to effect images threw out the site there individual site. Each of this sites to everyone will be individual. They must not share they same user database for access, newsletter lists, email lists and such. IE each site cant know the other site is there. Should I continue with the idea of placing each into its own subdomain and control from there or is this something multisites can do? * Also is there a way to at the end of the day grab all those user emails to create a larger database for use from the parent site, to create a mailing list of sorts? * Thank you for your time and replies. I have searched the internet and can not seem to find this information. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-multi-site/#post-2813961) * Yes and no for how WordPress Multisite works. You’d het this: * 1) A parent site (mysite.com) that you control 🙂 * 2) A network admin section (mysite.com/wp-admin/network) that only you control to handle updates, plugins etc. * 3) Subsites (mysite.com/subsite or subsite.mysite.com) where your users are ‘ admins’ of their own blogs, but cannot install plugins or themes (only activate ones you’ve installed(). * Is that okay? * > Each of this sites to everyone will be individual. They must not share they > same user database for access, newsletter lists, email lists and such. * Eeeeh. Are you sure? See you can have seperate mailing lists per site, but all your users are going to be members of the _network_. That means they’re all on the same DB (everything is, really). The actual site userbase though is restricted by the site-admins. * Thread Starter [Harley Davdison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harley-davdison/) * (@harley-davdison) * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-multi-site/#post-2813973) * Well here is why I say this. Example: Radio shack will have a few pages along with best buy. I want both of them to be able to send out and manage there list of customers via a newsletter or email list. How ever, I dont want someone who can access the members area of radio shack to access the members area of best buy. Nor do I want best buy sending a newsletter to all the radio shack people. So I wouldnt want either business to see each other. Nor do I want them to know each other are on the service. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-multi-site/#post-2814009) * > How ever, I dont want someone who can access the members area of radio shack > to access the members area of best buy. * For that you’re safe with Multisite. You can only see the members area of the site you’re a member of. There’s a plugin called Network Privacy which will go a step further and keep you out if you’re not a member of the other site. * > Nor do I want best buy sending a newsletter to all the radio shack people. > Nor do I want best buy sending a newsletter to all the radio shack people. * Again, not a problem 🙂 The makiling list would be per-site. * > So I wouldnt want either business to see each other. Nor do I want them to > know each other are on the service. * And there is your gotcha. Log in to WordPress.com and any time you hit up another site hosted there, you get the happy toolbar :/ So they would be able to know about the other site. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘Understanding Multi Site’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/understanding-multi-site/#post-2814009) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics