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So really, wordpress multisite – assuming all the child themes belong to you and are under your administration has only that benefit – admin, an ease to adding, selecting and maintaining content between the themes.

Well, i honestly thought multisite vs several single sites would have better performance, but either way thats fine :).

thanks for the answers.

I’m using wpmu for short – wordpress multisite, im well aware its integrated part of wordpress now and i am using the latest version.

What I’m asking, apps, themes, server config aside:

IS wordpress multisite, with 4 childthemes plus the default main site (so 5 sites in total) more efficient on a server than 5 separate wordpress single installs?

I theory i suspect it should be, as only 1 wordpress instance is installed and running, but all childthemes work off of this instance, rather than their own instance – as all the child themes seem to reflect virtual resources if needed (such as images etc).

But comfirmation from a education source would be appreciated.

I’ll add, to make matters more difficult: with the specific theme i’m trying to have this work with, i MUST use featured images in my slider, rather than custom fields with the img url.

I can also see the regular WP menu items, when on the Network Admin back end (just because i didn’t list them, please don’t assume that i don’t have them.)