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The pros & cons of a WP multisite installation

2018-10-19

The cons

  • Many wordpress plugins aren’t compatible with a WordPress multisite network. Consequently, if you want to use WordPress plugins, you should test them in a WordPress multisite network environment.
  • A WordPress multisite installation is more complicated to set up than single installations of WordPress.
  • All the users from the websites of the network are part of the same MySQL table.
  • If the websites grow in popularity and size, they will take more storage space on the same web server.
  • If the websites of the network grow in popularity and size, they will require more CPU resources on a web server.
  • If an attack is carried against the multisite installation, all the websites of the network can be taken down.
  • By the default, the root domain website of a WP multisite network uses “blog” as a slug (/blog/) when you create a post.

The pros

  • Themes are installed only once and available for all the websites.
  • Plugins are installed only once and available for all the websites.
  • Theme customizations require less work since there is only one repository where you make the changes.
  • Plugin customizations require less work since there is only one repository where you make the changes
  • You are ensured that there aren’t configuration differences between the websites of a wordpress multisite network.
  • Users can be added fully or partially to every website or the wordpress multisite network.
  • The roles of every user can be independently modified in every Wp website of the network.

Take the time to make the decision of installing a WordPress multisite network. 

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