Title: WordPress multisite or use a plugin?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress multisite or use a plugin?

 *  [boudiccas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boudiccas/)
 * (@boudiccas)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-or-use-a-plugin/)
 * I’m at the stage of having activated multisite and getting everything working
   again, and am now considering my next options. I want to create a new wordpress
   site that will be unpublished until it is all in place ready to go live. It will
   be a wordpress copy of a site which is currently all plain html, and becoming
   more difficult to maintain. But can I keep the site ‘off-line’ just on the usual
   wordpress setup or should I use the ‘moderate new blogs’ plugin please? I’ve 
   never used multisite before so am treading very cautiously.
 * Thanks
    Sharon.

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-or-use-a-plugin/#post-4368718)
 * Why do you need Multisite for this at all?
 * Are you trying to create a new site off an existing site, or is the whole WP 
   thing new?
 *  Thread Starter [boudiccas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boudiccas/)
 * (@boudiccas)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-or-use-a-plugin/#post-4368731)
 * I just thought it would be easier to manage if I could multi-site it, after all,
   both domains are on the same server, sitting next to each other. One is already
   a wordpress site, running quite well, the second is pure-html and has become 
   monolithic too maintain, so I want to rebuild it with wordpress.
 * Sharon.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-or-use-a-plugin/#post-4368743)
 * Ah, okay, thank you.
 * So you CAN do this in Multisite. You would, on the WP site (we’ll call it example.
   com) create a new subsite for pure-html (call it pure-html.example.com)
 * Port everything over, content etc, make the design what you want. Then park the
   domain for pure-html.com on top of example.com, and use domain mapping.
 * The last step would be to search/replace post content for pure-html to use the
   domain and not the subdomain. Done 🙂

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 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-multisite-or-use-a-plugin/#post-4368743)
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