The first thing you need to understand is that using the same WordPress installation to manage different domains is really painful! As you can see from the image below, natively WordPress does not allow you to use different domains, but rather will allow you to create child sites of the network
Practical example of differences between subfolders and subdomains in a WordPress MultiSite
Of course there are certain cases where using subfolders or subdomains is exactly what you want such as the excellent work of tutsplus.com where thanks to subdomains they were able to precisely separate italy phone number data the topics covered by their editorial team.
To be honest, there is a plugin that allows you to use different domains within the same WordPress installation but activating this feature requires a lot of knowledge and, as we will see in another article, there are also other solutions to manage an arbitrary number of WordPress installations.
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What I want to focus your attention on by creating this article are the main advantages and limitations of a MultiSite installation.
Advantages
you can manage as many WordPress sites as you want from a single control panel;
use a single domain and therefore avoid buying one for each site you create;
you will not need to update the plugins and WordPress platforms present on each individual site, you will only need to update your WordPress once to update the entire network;
complete management of themes and plugins with the possibility of activating them as default.
Disadvantages
Your hosting plan will need to grow and scale as your network grows;
Once you have switched to the MultiSite version there is no going back ;
Some plugins do not work well with this type of installation.
At first glance it seems that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, but there is a fundamental question that you will have to answer before activating everything: “ Do I really need a Network? ”