WP MU or separate installations for clients' websites?

  • I currently run half a dozen WP installs on my shared hosting account. These installs are for separate clients’ websites, e.g. different content, plugins, themes. Is it applicable to use WP MU instead of separate installs for such purpose? Why or why not? Can I utilize a different domain for each site?

    Thanks in advance for the help!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    You can use Multisite and still have separate domains. But make sure you know what you’ll be doing.

    The domains will share a database and a user base, and you’ll have to take in special considerations if they want their own email. Also you’ll be responsible for it all, so if you later want to move one of them off to their own world, it’ll be a little more difficult.

    Thread Starter danf89

    (@danf89)

    Same user base? What do you mean “own email?”

    I’m familiar with using phpMyAdmin to move WP content from one place to another. What all does moving something onto or off of a Multisite site involve?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Let’s say you install WordPress in domain.com

    You make a subsite as 2.domain.com and you want to map domain2.com to it.

    Now the people who use domain2.com want to have email like [email protected]

    You have to think about how to handle that ??

    As for moving a site out of Multisite, because you have a shared user base, it’s harder to just pick up and move sites. You have to import/export most of the time.

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