I need your advice. We run begin from here website beginfromhere.com with wordpress as you can realise when you visit it. We have already some plugins installed, but we like to add also games to this website too. There is a nice plugin to install, but here is the question, as we think that games section will be big as size and number of games. which solution you choose ?
1: Install the plugin on the same website
or
2: Install a new wordpress with the same theme on a sub-domain of the website , something like games.beginfromhere.com
For solution 1, we are afraid that in the futur, any small problem will happen with the plugin, the website and anything related with wordpress will be stopped
For solution 2, the plroblem with the menu, search, header, sign in, as it will be like a second website, or maybe there is a way to relate the both websites and than this solution will be the best one…I have no idea
You never need to do that - if you want separate WordPress versions on different subdomains then just turn on multisite. That gives you multiple WordPress logins with only the one set of code
First thank you for your help. But how is that possible to do that, beside the fact that each subdomain will has its dedicated database for wordpress. Is that possible to have multi wordpress copies with one database only ?
Sorry, but I didn’t understand this point:
Multi wordpress on many subdomains = multi databases
The best advice I can give is that you set up a multisite on your localhost so you can test things for yourself.
It has been a long time since I did so but IIRC there was only one database,
Some tables were shared and for all sites, and each site also had its own table.
There was one “master” or “super admin” site that could specify settings for which plugins were used by all sites and which plugins could be used by other sites.
Kind of like wordpress.com which AFAIK is multisite.
Yes - separate tables for each site but all in the same database. Plus tables shared where the data is applicable to any WordPress of the sites. Also separate folders for the uploaded images for each site.
That’s why WordPress developed multisite in the first place - they use it themselves so they only have one copy of the code for the millions of wordpress sites hosted at wordpress.com and only later did they make it available for everyone else to use.
What it means is that you only have to update WordPress and any plugins once and the updates apply to all the sites that use them.
Basically everything that can be shared is shared and only the parts of the sites that need to be different are stored separately. So everything that would otherwise be duplicated for every site occurs only once.
Thank you both for your support,in fact, what we are going to do now, is to watch some youtube videos about wordpress multisites to get an idea how it works exactly.
thank you really for your support. In fact, if you check the website begin from here, and after clicking on enter button, you will be in the main website powered by wordpress in this folder /site but I’m thinking to add another wordpress installation in another folder, think /site2 till not I can’t figured how to get the same login for the both versions, the more important for me, that I don’t want also, if something bad happen to version1, it will happen automatically to version2