I’m looking into an upcoming project of a redesign of an existing website. The plan is to install one single installation of WordPress at domain.com. The admin area will be locked down and accessible only to individuals inside the organization’s network.
There is a subsection of the site that needs to exist to allow for other individuals outside of the organization to create and publish content. I’d like to set up a separate multisite install of WordPress at subdomain.domain.com. This multisite would be installed with subdirectories so each site will be at subdomain.domain.com/site1 and subdomain.domain.com/site2, etc.
As far as I’ve read, all of this should work fine with WordPress. The reason we would like to keep two separate installs is simply for security so the base install of wordpress on domain.com isn’t accessible in anyway from external sources. I’m just curious if anyone has any experience with this set up or sees any potential pitfalls.
