Quick question regarding Multisite

  • Hi,

    This is a general question regarding wpms and generally any wordpress plugin. Let me give a bit of background on this idea:

    Right now, I am using wp as a single site, no wpms installed currently, and have a few plugin related issues (one (wordpress) plugin not working or working partially with another (wordpress) plugin)

    I am planning on using more than one plugin (possibly about 5 different ones) within wordpress, and I am aware that this is not always a good thing to do because of plugin related issues, but, am I wrong with this idea if I am using wpms, another words will there still be plugin issues or can I some how separate the plugins for each site, and even though I would only be using one wordpress install with wpms, will I be able to avoid the plugin issues in general? Can you give me an idea of how I can avoid (if possible) the plugin related issues in WPMS?

    To summerize all of my above message:

    I am just assuming that if I install wpms, I can some how avoid all plugin issues / catastrophes by using wp multisite. Is this possible? Can you offer suggestions if there is a way to avoid plugin related issues with WordPress Multisite?

    Thanks
    Brian

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  • The plugin author would be best to ask if it supports multisite (and told about conflicts with other plugins).

    Now, if the plugins are already broken or throwing errors, I can’t understand how enabling multisite would solve anything. A poorly coded plugin will still be a poorly coded plugin.

    In general, adding plugins in a multisite does have additional pitfalls. If you have headaches with troubleshooting plugins now, your will have more complex problems with plugins throwing errors in a multisite. Enable multisite on a sandbox server THEN test your particular plugin/theme combinations. FYI, in multisite you do have more flexibility with how you make plugins active.

    Thread Starter Brian07002

    (@brian07002)

    Hi David,

    Thank you! That’s all I needed to know. I have been using a plugin / theme called classipress, which seems to be good, but I have also installed some other plugins on a single site setup which I believe are causing issues with payment settings, I guess I have have to thoroughly test my sites checkout procedure before I consider this a plugin issue or not. But it appears (imo) to be one though.

    Thanks again!
    Brian

    Thread Starter Brian07002

    (@brian07002)

    Hello again,

    I have another similar question as above…

    After reading about the wp multi site setup, I am not quite sure if I would actually benefit from using it or not. Here’s what I mean.

    I plan on creating a website (advertising related) there will be several main sections.

    Example:

    1. Classified Ads Section
    2. Banner Advertising Section
    3. Forums Section
    4. A Media Wall Section
    5. A Live Chat Section

    *Possibly a couple of other sections as well but those listed above would definitely be on the site.

    I was planning on basically using one WordPress installation and creating sub-folders for each section on my ftp server w/out multi site.

    Example:

    /classifieds – word press would be installed here

    /wp banners plugin – word press will NOT installed here but the plugin WILL be a wordpress plugin

    /forum – NOT a word press plugin

    /media wall – possibly a word press plugin

    /chat – not a word press plugin

    so based on the above setup, would creating a wp multi-site be a recommended option? If so, why, and if not why? I would like other points of view because I think I am missing a connection with understanding the original wp multi site docs.

    Note: I am trying to make the website optimized for high amounts of traffic, even though my current server is on a shared hosting account. (my plans are to get lots of traffic, even if that is not the case in the beginning) I just want to if I plan for large amounts of web traffic, how should I go about setting up the website in the current situation?

    Thank you
    Brian

    Traffic has nothing to do with choosing Multisite or not. It’ll be the quality of the server that matters. Make certain your hosting plan will let you scale up with ease when you get busy.

    WordPress will add a /blog to your site or /blogs.

    If /blogs, then you want Multisite enabled.

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