Single WordPress, Multisite Network or Multiple WordPress Installations?

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    Hello all,

    I have a very active, 6-month niche blog (in the mental health arena), and I’m now planning for a major “next phase” and need a little advice on the best path forward. I’m not sure which will serve our needs best: a single WordPress installation, Multisite Network, or multiple installations of independent, single WordPress sites.

    Here are the pieces I’m trying to piece together:

    • Blog / Online Magazine (active on a VPS now)
    • Woocommerce-powered Store (selling both physical and digital stuff)
    • Learndash-powered Academy (we track student progress for CE credits and award certificates of completion, so we wanted something more “schoolish”, hence LearnDash)
    • bbPress-powered community discussion forum
    • ByddyPress-powered niche social network
    • (Maybe) Paid Membership Pro plugin

    I’m concerned about possible conflicts with these various plugins when it comes to login and user management.

    So what would the WordPress gurus suggest as a good approach: a single WordPress installation, Multisite Network, or multiple installations of independent, single WordPress sites to power the above-listed components?

    And any specific gotchas I must be aware of?

    PS: I’ve managed WordPress sites for over a decade now. But I’m more of an infrastructure guy and not a developer. So, while I can certainly put the pieces together and fix minor issues, I can’t dive deep enough to deal with major integration/compatibility issues. And this being a labor of love, there’s very little funds to hire someone to help.

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  • I’ve done a site that uses all of those pluigns – apart from Learndash – on the same site, and I haven’t had any problems with them.

    My only advice would be to use the BuddyPress login pages as a base because they seem to be a lot nicer (in my opionion at least) than the ones from the other plugins.

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