Genesis or Roll Your Own for Multisite?

Do you know how I can get this thread into the Multisite forum? I selected “Ask a Question” while I was in that forum and I did not see “Multisite” as a category option prior to posting.

I have designed a new website in Photoshop and plan to hand over my PSD to a developer. This theme will be used for a Multisite project. It’s a very basic informational, B2B website. Just 10 basic pages with a blog. Nothing complicated. I manage all updates for my clients, which are rare and simple. The only thing they’ll do is create and edit their blog posts.

I want the most stable code possible to give me the best opportunity to avoid issues during WP & plugin updates.

1. Would you recommend I have this site developed with Genesis or have it developed as a roll your own, without any framework involved? I’ve been recommended both, and was hoping to hear multiple recommendations for those of you reading this. By the way, I don’t touch site layout code, so a pro developer will manage this part of the process for me.

If you recommend Genesis, is there anything that would cause a problem with Multisite?

If you recommend a roll your own solution, are there any suggestions you can make that I should be sure I share with my developer?

Thank you.

  • Jack Kitterhing
    • Code Norris

    Hi there Gregg,

    I hope you are well today.

    I’ve moved this to the mulitiste forum for you :slight_smile:

    There and Pros and cons for both ways it seems, If you get something custom coded from scratch with no framework it’s going to cost more.

    Whereas something like Genesis is already proven, the code is well written, secure and it’s simple to use, plus it comes with full documentation.

    Or you could use something like Zurb which is a great open source framework https://vvpmudev.com/blog/zurb-foundation/

    Personally, I’d go with either genesis or Zurb most likely from what you have described.

    If it was a big complicated site with lots of custom functions etc, then I’d always recommend the coding from scratch way :slight_smile:

    Thanks!

    Kind Regards

    Jack.