Title: Appropriate Case For Multisite
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Appropriate Case For Multisite

 *  [charitablehumans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charitablehumans/)
 * (@charitablehumans)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/appropriate-case-for-multisite/)
 * I am using WordPress to run/manage my small, but complex, non-profit organizations.
   We offer a wide, and growing, “features” that advances our mission. The biggest
   factor in our decision to use, or not use, WordPress Multisite, is with regards
   to the high number of plugins.
 * The use of all these plugins seems to have a huge impact on performance, and 
   even worse, create a chaotic mess of the sidebar within wp-admin.
 * As an example, we have projects such as courses, volunteer opportunity / careers,
   product/service review, citizen journalism, Q & A Knowledge, etc. Along with 
   these project-required plugins, we also have BuddyPress, bbpress, MyCred, Credly
   and the BadgeOS plugins, all of which tie into our project-required plugins.
 * We are seriously wondering about using WordPress Multisite and separating content/
   features into its own WordPress “sub-site”. So, all of our online courses would
   be setup as an additional sub-site. This way, all of our online projects remain
   under a singe site, thus eliminating the need for users having to register and
   login separately.
 * Is this the sort of use case where Multisite would provide the better deployment?
 * Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/)
 * (@bethannon1)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/appropriate-case-for-multisite/#post-5391503)
 * Looks like no one has responded yet, so I’ll give it a try…
 * This could be a good case for multisite. The plugins you mention like BuddyPress&
   bbpress could be activated either only on the main site, or individually for 
   multiple, separate instances of their functions.
 * If you use the same theme, and make links back & forth between the sites, some
   users might not even be aware that they have left your main site.
 * You would get to separate your organization’s functions, but it comes with an
   increase in complexity, and not all your site content people might “get” how 
   to manage the content.
 *  Thread Starter [charitablehumans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charitablehumans/)
 * (@charitablehumans)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/appropriate-case-for-multisite/#post-5391504)
 * Thanks for responding. There really are so many factors to consider, and I’m 
   still not sure if I would be better off one way or the other. I will be using
   the same theme for each site, if I go with the multi-site approach, but the menu
   was a big issue, until I found a Network Menu plugin.
 * Thanks for the information, I think that your reassurance that this could be 
   done in a multi-site approach was sort of what I was looking for.

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 * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [charitablehumans](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charitablehumans/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/appropriate-case-for-multisite/#post-5391504)
 * Status: not resolved

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