Title: Multisite implementation confusion Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Multisite implementation confusion * [Mike McNamara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike-mcnamara/) * (@mike-mcnamara) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-implementation-confusion/) * I may have been thinking too hard about what I want to do and based on some feedback I have now received can’t understand if I can do it with a Multi-site WP implementation, so am looking for some guidance etc. * A year ago I migrated/converted a small website from a traditional html.index implementation to WP as I wanted to add a Blog. All goes well with it. The WP Blog/Website, we’ll call it [http://www.zbq22.co.uk](http://www.zbq22.co.uk) for this discussion is located at a hosting company in the UK. * I have two other small websites [http://www.othersite.co.uk](http://www.othersite.co.uk)& [http://www.sleepingsite.co.uk](http://www.sleepingsite.co.uk) hosted at the same location. These are both small traditional html.index implementations. These domains are classified as sub-domains of my main [http://www.zbq22.co.uk](http://www.zbq22.co.uk), site but the DNS setup is so that a user obviously only sees the correct domain name in the browser address bar when they visit each respective site – why wouldn’t if be like that! * I want to ‘revitalise’ these two sites with a simple redesign (theme) and add a blog and as they are on the same hosted server (in their own directories) as my main site I thought after reading info/watching videos about WP Multi-site that this would be the obvious way to go to consolidate all the ‘sites’ together. * After seeing that there was a choice of subdirectories/sub domains to be made– I would like to stay with sub domains, I wrote to the hosting company who told me that they we only able to support subdirectories under a WP Multi-site implementation as they did not support DNS Wild card records – which I understand is needed for Sub domain based WP Multi-site implementation. * If I go down the Subdirectory route, my current understanding is that the structure will not then reflect what I want the end user to see in the address bar of the user – i.e. each individual site name. Does that mean that I then I have use something like a WP Domain Name Mapping Plug-in to get ‘it’ back to the correct Domain name that the user sees? * An alternate suggestion from the hosting company is that I make two more WP installs in the ‘home’ directory of each of the other websites and build up from there!!!! This suggestion seems completely bonkers to me. * So there we have it, I think I have covered everything, maybe I have read/watched too much info about this. It just seems strange that a simple technical step seems to have got me bogged down with lack of clarity as to what to do next. * As I mentioned at the start of the post any guidance suggestions would be most gratefully received. * Many thanks * Regards * Mike Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Shane Gowland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thewebatom/) * (@thewebatom) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-implementation-confusion/#post-3326067) * Your hosting company is wrong. Technically speaking, you don’t need Wildcard subdomain support to use Subdomains with WordPress MS. * Create a network using the subdirectory option. Then create the desired subdomains in your control panel and make sure they point to where WordPress is installed( probably /public_html/ or /www/) * Use the domain mapping plugin to map the subdomains to the subsites on the network. Voila! You’ve now got a subdomain based network, without needing Wildcards. * Thread Starter [Mike McNamara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike-mcnamara/) * (@mike-mcnamara) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-implementation-confusion/#post-3326083) * Hi Shane, * Will have a look at that and come back with any further questions. * Which Mapping Plu-in is the bext to use? The Ron Rennic one seems to be a well used one. * [Shane Gowland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thewebatom/) * (@thewebatom) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-implementation-confusion/#post-3326084) * [This one](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/) * Thread Starter [Mike McNamara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike-mcnamara/) * (@mike-mcnamara) * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-implementation-confusion/#post-3326088) * Thanks for that. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Multisite implementation confusion’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [domain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/domain/) * [implementation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/implementation/) * [mapping](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mapping/) * [sub directories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sub-directories/) * [sub-domain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sub-domain/) * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Mike McNamara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike-mcnamara/) * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-implementation-confusion/#post-3326088) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics