We want to implement a WordPress multi site installation for a network of dealers of a certain product. (Think car dealership.) Exactly how much can be customized on the individual installations? We want to use multi site as there are over 100 installations and we don't want to maintain the updates individually, but we also need to have unique content on each. The theme will be the same, but we'd like to customize text, photos, colors, contact forms, and the ability add extra pages, and additional features that may arise. Does anyone have any insight as to what is safe to customize on a multi site network and what might be risky or too difficult?
The quick answer is everything you're asking for is possible and fairly easy to implement. You're scenario and desire to keep things scalable on a large network is the main purpose for WPMS. We've built over a dozen client networks some with more than 700 installations on one network. We have built robust tools like the neversettle.it/ns-cloner-pro which allow you to clone, copy, update, migrate, etc. with one click inside your network.
With MS you can run an admin level codebase for all sites while maintaining unique content as well as unique functionality and design if you choose. With domain mapping you can also have a custom domain per sub-site if desired as well. I.e. instead of having dealerA.yourdomain.com and dealerB.yourdomain.com you can have dealerA.com and johnscardealerB.com
Once you have correctly configured your network and have tools like our Cloner the possibilities are endless.
Cheers,
Answered 8 years ago
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