Can I connect two wordpress sites to one database?

  • msutyler

    (@msutyler)


    10 years ago

    I have Site A and Site B.

    Site A is my main site and allows users to register where they create a user name and password and make a payment. The users get logged in the Users part of my admin panel.

    I want to add a community feature to my site with buddypress. I would use a different theme and wordpress installation as well (I assume another install is needed to run another theme). I want Site be to be community.siteA.com or siteA.com/community, whatever is best practice.

    My question, am I able to connect Site B database to Site A’s so that when people register and pay on Site A they don’t have to re-sign up in Site B?

    Hope this makes sense and thanks for the help.

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    what you want is pretty much perfect for a Network.

    That will let you share the users across various sites, and you can run different themes and plugins on each sub-site. Be prepared for a slightly bigger learning curve, but it’s definately the way to go.

    Thread Starter msutyler

    (@msutyler)

    Thanks. I downloaded multi site and setup up the user community Users Ultra and it worked. Users from site A had profiles on site B. Then out of the blue I get a fatal error: cannot overload.

    Did some troubleshooting and it looks like it was because PHP 5.4 is selected as default on the godaddy servers. I switched it to PHP 5.5. And it solved my error. Then 30 minutes later the error happened again. Looked back in cPanel and it switched backed to 5.4. I switched to 5.5 and it solved it.

    My question though is, does WordPress have an action that automatically switches back to PHP 5.4. Or is this a godaddy issu?

    Thread Starter msutyler

    (@msutyler)

    lol, great, I’m going to talk to them now.

    Or are you saying it’s a godaddy issue just because you don’t like them, lol

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    It’s 100% NOT within the control of WP, let’s put it that way ??

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