Multiple Blog/Sites Issue

  • Ok I will try to explain this the best way I can.
    I have a client (Well I hope will be) that is wanting multiple blogs with close to the same design on each. They want it where one person only can edit one part of the site and a different person to edit a different portion of the site. So I guess multiple blogs? It is a retirement home with like 28 different locations so making a site for each could get expensive for them..
    Any help would be great thanks!

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  • You are right that it would have to be multiple sites, you can’t partition permissions within a site.
    You could enable multi-site within WordPress and set up 28 separate sites for them. It is just one install, but 28 sites. Also, since the sites share the same user-table, you can grant permissions to people as necessary (Bob and be an author on site A, B, D, and L, but Jane can only author on B and R) and they would always log in with their same account.

    The biggest headache you’ll run into is controlling and synchronizing plugin and theme options across all 28 sites, but if you dedicate this multi-site install to just their sites, there are methods to assist with that.

    Thread Starter chringo

    (@chringo)

    Yeah I want it to be extremely easy. I would say a different CMS but wordpress is friendlier to people that have no experience with the backend of a CMS. (Making posts and adding pictures)

    Really I think just making 28 sites would be easier to control.

    They want the site to be the same design just changing up the color a bit.

    I’d still recommend multi-site. You are working with one code-base of core, plugins and themes. If you set up separate installs…oh dear god I just cringe thinking of it. Especially if they only want to change colors.

    Thread Starter chringo

    (@chringo)

    ok so I really have no experience with the multi-site wordpress. I am sure there is tons of info on the web about how to do it and make a theme do what I need.

    I really don’t think they are going to be using a lot of plugins but some photo gallery type stuff.

    I really have no details on how many domains they own and how many they want to use.

    Also thanks for your help I do really appreciate it.

    If you are experienced with single-site WP, multi-site is 95% the same (a totally made up number), you are still managing one install. You just have to remember that the blogs on that install are, by default, ignorant of each other, but on the backend they use the same database, core files, plugins code, themes code, although they can (and will) be configured separately.

    Visualize that you have 28 blogs running one single plugin and one single theme. Now you find out there is a vulnerability in the theme or the plugin! Oh no, you have to update it asap! With multi-site you do it once. With separate installs, you do it 28 times.

    Good luck!

    Perhaps you could have a look at https://halfelf.org/ebooks/wordpress-multisite-101/

    Thread Starter chringo

    (@chringo)

    Wow thanks guys I think this will be enough to solve my issues. Again thanks for the help and I will most likely be doing some reading tonight. play around with all this very soon.

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