Title: Multiple installations, same content : how?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Multiple installations, same content : how?

 *  [stephdumais](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephdumais/)
 * (@stephdumais)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installations-same-content-how/)
 * Hi, I have two sub websites under the same domain, using different layouts and
   such. What I would like to do is have a WordPress installation in each of these
   directories, each using their own theme but accessing the same content in the
   database.
 * In other words: two blogs, same database tables. *NOT* different tables as this
   would require that I duplicate content for each blog manually.
 * Has this been done before? How can I achieve this?

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 *  [scaturan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scaturan/)
 * (@scaturan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installations-same-content-how/#post-350627)
 * just use a different table prefix : [http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs)
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installations-same-content-how/#post-350637)
 * [@scaturan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scaturan/),
    that’s whole idea
   that the OP doesn’t want two different prefixes 🙂 I have no idea whether it 
   would work with two installs using the same DB tables…
 *  [scaturan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scaturan/)
 * (@scaturan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installations-same-content-how/#post-350645)
 * oh!, hahah, thanks for the heads up.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installations-same-content-how/#post-350655)
 * Couldn’t one simply give both installs the same db info in the separate wp-config.
   php files? Or would that NOT work for some reason?
 * Of course, even if that would work…. hmmm. Would you use just one blog for always
   posting? I’m wondering if there would be a problem if posting happened from both….
   and what about commenting?
 *  [red-star](https://wordpress.org/support/users/red-star/)
 * (@red-star)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installations-same-content-how/#post-350659)
 * I have tried that. that went totaly wrong.
 *  Thread Starter [stephdumais](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephdumais/)
 * (@stephdumais)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installations-same-content-how/#post-350839)
 * I discovered that the main problem involves absolute paths for archives and such.
 * If there was a way to make them dynamic or if the theme could depend on the wp-
   config file only, it would make this possible.
 * BTW, the reason I want to do this is to have two versions of my website but sharing
   the same content.
 * Here’s hoping someone has come up with a plugin or some simple hack…
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installations-same-content-how/#post-350840)
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/42793#post-240179](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/42793#post-240179)
 *  [lunabyte](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lunabyte/)
 * (@lunabyte)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-installations-same-content-how/#post-350842)
 * Have you tried this?
 * I’m guessing this is a somewhat fresh install.
 * 1) Install a second copy of WordPress, using a second table_prefix.
 * 2) Using something like PhpMyAdmin, drop all of the tables with the new table_prefix
   EXCEPT “options”.
 * 3) Open up the config file, and change the table_prefix to the original table
   prefix.
 * 4) Open up wp-settings.php and scroll down to about line 75 or so, where it lists
   the table names. there will be a bunch of lines like:
 *  wpdb->tablename = table_prefix ‘tablename’
 * edit the line for the options table like so:
    before: $table_prefix . ‘options’
 * after:
    ‘new_prefixoptions’
 * Note: new_prefix is the prefix you used in the second install, which is different
   from the first. So, if your new prefix was blog2_, the edited version would look
   like:
    after: ‘blog2_options’
 * This way, you’re using the options/settings from the second install, and can 
   customize it separately from the first.

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