Title: Articles shared across a MultiSite Setup?
Last modified: November 8, 2020

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# Articles shared across a MultiSite Setup?

 *  [surrealrob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/surrealrob/)
 * (@surrealrob)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articles-shared-across-a-multisite-setup/)
 * Hello all,
 * I am trying to gather some information before putting in a ton of work, doing
   it wrong, and having it all be for nothing.
 * I believe I am looking to have a multisite WordPress, but am unsure.
 * For an example, let’s say that I own a sports league. I want to have a main website,
   for the league itself, with it’s own URL, and it’s own theme.
 * I also want to have a website for each team in the league, again with it’s own
   website URL, and it’s own theme.
 * However, I want it to all be one “database”, and by that I mean, I want somebody
   to be able to write a news article for the team, but also have it show on the
   league’s website, in addition to the team’s website.
 * In a real world example, let’s say I want to create a website for NFL.com, with
   it’s own URL and theme, but I also want to create DetroitLions.com, MinnesotaVikings.
   com, GreenBayPackers.com, etc. Each website would have it’s own URL, it’s own
   specialized theme, but I am hoping to have one website for contributors to log
   into and create articles, and I want the article that they write for DetroitLions.
   com to show up on both DetroitLions.com and NFL.com, without having to copy the
   article, or post it twice.
 * Essentially, everything would be separate, URL, theme, etc, but the content would
   be able to be spread across more than one site. (The team site, as well as the
   parent league site).
 * Hopefully that makes sense…
 * In summary: A league website, and team websites, with their own URLs and WordPress
   Themes, but a single “source” for articles, where articles/comments for a Team
   Website can also show up in the news section of the League Website. (Perhaps 
   also a single user database for users who register/sign-up to comment?)
 * I will answer any questions to try and explain it better.
 * Thanks in advance!
    -  This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).

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 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/articles-shared-across-a-multisite-setup/#post-13636655)
 * You can read about the various ways to configure WordPress here: [https://wordpress.org/support/article/installing-multiple-blogs/](https://wordpress.org/support/article/installing-multiple-blogs/)
   
   Be aware that a “database” is one set of credentials to send to MySQL (found 
   in wp-config.php), but can contain many tables of data. While Multisite has one
   database, it uses different prefixes and so different tables for each subsite.
   Whether the posts for each subsite are stored in the same table or not, you can
   use plugins to query subsites for posts, or use the RSS feeds to show the posts.
   There isn’t an option that is like you are asking for: one database with one 
   set of tables shared by all the subsites. (but you can share the user table) 
   In order for each subsite to be unique (theme, domain name, options), it needs
   to have its own set of tables.

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