WordPress multisite to connect subdomains and posts?

I use MU and love it. But my use-case is that I need to have thousands of separate sites that are individually controlled and managed while only having to maintain one single install. It doesn’t take a lot of horsepower to run it, but if you are not self-hosting, your hosting provider may have restrictions against running MU because in a way it turns you into a solution provider (i.e. competition) and it does use more resources as you add more blogs. However a single-site install that has tons of traffic, plugins, etc… will use more than a low utilization multi-site.

My comments that MU would be hard is that for your needs it seemed like you would be better served with single-site install and just modifying page templates than to use a multi-site install and try to get the separate blogs to share content, members, themes, theme options, plugins, plugin options, blog settings, etc….

right. final question then. In case I have to make these separate categories into sites of their own later, can i make them subdomains that run using multisite?

You can convert your single-install to a multi-site install later. When you do that, you configure whether you will use subdomains or subfolders for the additional sites (it is either/or not both). You would have to export content from your main site to each subsite. And, if you want to keep membership and other options synchronized between sites, find plugins that allow you to fulfill those kinds of functions.

Ok thanks guys. I believe thats all I need to know for the moment. Thanks a lot.

This is a very interesting discussion. Where can I find more (not sure what to search for except “Do I really need multisite?”)

https://halfelf.org/2011/dont-use-wordpress-multisite/ perhaps?

Don’t let the title scare you ?? But also don’t post in resolved topics, we often ignore them.

May be this plugin can help?

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/threewp-broadcast/

It broadcasts posts from a blog to another, with custom contents, taxonomies, using a child / parent linkage to keep all updated.

Hello, a lot of discussion has happened but it is difficult to summarize..what?
I have the same problem. I have a site and want to categorize on products for example, tv.sitename.com, mobile.sitename.com thinking that it would be helpful for SEO and that it would give users a feeling of dedicated subsite for a product.

I have a question and after reading this post, i got one more question:
1. How can I keep the same settings reused everywhere in the subsites. When I change the theme of main site, it should apply to all the internal sites. If I change a plugin setting for one site (e.g. analytics plugin), it should apply throughout the subsites too. Is it possible?

2. Would it be a (very) bad idea?

Thanks
aditya

@assassinsat : your idea of having “the main domain https://www.mydomain.com will be just be showing all my recent posts of all my subdomains” is a good idea for ranking well in the niches. In this way you can work on ranking on your niche sites as well as since all your sub-sites will be linked to a common home page/landing page, it will give you the advantage of owning a huge directory of multi-niches.

So your thought process of have a common landing page with links to different niche sites is a great idea. I am working on similar site right now. You can have hyperlinks to dropdown menus for different niches on your landing page. For SEO purpose you will need to show that your landing page is having some activity and that can be achieved by the plugins suggested in this post. Let know your experiences, since I see this post is nearly 8 months old.