Public domain and private subdomain – multisite or not ?

  • ynteligent

    (@ynteligent)


    9 years ago

    Hello WP Geeks,

    I am bulding webpage for comunity. Webpage will be divided into two parts – public and private.

    Public part stores public documents, public contacts, public bbpress forum where you can add topic without any registration. Anybody could see this content. Registered users also should have rights to see all content add posts comments and topics to bbpress forum (with their login name).

    Private part – Users must be logged-in to see the content of private part. After login, they will be divided into small groups – each group will have their own pages with their own content – own local contacts, own documents, own local bbpress forums and so on… Pages for each group will be mostly the same, but may differ. Plugins will be most likely 100% the same . Theme will be the same for everyone. Each user of private part can see content of own group only.

    FYI: Private part of the website will be used much more than public part and will store much more data than public part.

    At the moment I am thinking of public domain https://www.somesite.com and private subdomain my.somesite.com. Groups will be created as a subdirectories within the subdomain (hosting plan restrictions). Feel free to correct me if I am wrong in this consideration.

    If my consideration about domain and subdomain is correct here are my questions:

    1- Should I install only one multisite instalation for public and private part together? Or is it better to instal two wordpress installations – standard wp installation for public part and multisite wp installation for private part.

    2- If two installations are better – should I use two separate databases or one database with different prefixes for database tables ( for example one with “wp_” and second “ms_”)

    3- If two installations are better – When user will be logged in to private part (my.somesite.com) and he wants to add comment to public part (www.somesite.com) – he should be eligible to do it as a registered user with his login name – but I realldy do not know how to transfer his Login / user informations from one installation to another – Any idea ?

    Thank you for your replies and help with my problem.

    Peter.

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  • If I am understanding correctly, I’d try keep things simple and just use one single site. Having a separation as you describe could be confusing to users. It could be simpler to user and it’s one login for either. bbPress allows for Public, Private and Hidden forums so you can invite only the users you want to each specific forum outside of the public ones.

    For content you could use the Members plugin to limit what roles can see what types of content as well as on a post by post basis.

    In general I’d recommend starting small and then if you find this doesn’t meet your needs it can be extended over time.

    Thread Starter ynteligent

    (@ynteligent)

    Thank you for your reply. I think you are right, I had time to think about that, and subdomain is really not a good idea- because as you described, it could be confusing to users. So I am definitely not going to use it.

    Anyway I am still considering one multisite installation – because in that private part, there will be more than 10.000 small groups, each group will have almost the same list of pages and lot of private documents to store. Therefore I think that multisite could be better than member plugin, because it could be overloaded.

    Or am I wrong? If yes, could you recommend me some good member plugin?

    Regards, Peter

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