There are three types of WordPress Multisites you can choose from. The type you should select depends on your individual needs and requirements.

Important: Multidomain and Subdomain cannot be tested on a Dev Box. The Box first needs to be activated in a paid subscription and connected to one or more domains.

Please also note: You can only select the type of WordPress Multisite when you create the WordPress multisite. It's not possible to change the Multisite type after the Box has been created!

We use the fictitious domain example.com below to explain the different WordPress Multisite types in more detail.

A subdirectory Multisite appends the domain string (i.e. the name) to the main URL of your main network site, e.g. example.com/subpage1/ and example.com/subpage2/.

Example

You have a multilingual website and want to create the language English as an additional website with the name "EN". The site would then run under example.com/en/.

With a subdomain multisite, your additional WordPress network pages are created as a subdomain. e.g. subsite1.example.com and subsite2.example.com

Example

An additional page with the domain string (name) "Office" would run on https://office.example.com.

With a multilingual subdomain Multisite, the URLs would be e.g. https://de. example.com and https://es.example.com.

With a multidomain Multisite, all pages of the multisite run on their own domain, e.g. example.com, example1.com and example2.com.

Example

Let's take our office example as in the subdomain type above. The network main page could be https://mysite.com and the office subpage https://myofficesite.com.

In a multilingual multidomain Multisite, the different languages can be mapped to the respective country-specific top-level domains. E.g. example.com for the English, example.de for German and example.es for the Spanish site.