: One website two CMS I have a business with two products, lets say boat engines and car engines. Direct from the home page one can click on either cars engines or boat engines. The subpages

@Cody1181609

I can't think of a single good reason for doing what you describe. (Caveat: we obviously don't know exactly what your dev was thinking.)

Even if the two "sub-sites" somehow had such different requirements(eg. for the templates) that they'd need this much segregation, WordPress has multi-site capabilities that could break them up under a single installation.

Before even getting into multi-site config, this could probably have been done with custom post types or even just categories, depending upon how different the product information needs are.

Further cons:


Increased admin load, eg. maintaining two copies of WordPress, any plugins, etc.
Increased user load, eg. changing passwords, updating profile info.
Any external connections also have to be maintained twice, like authorizing access to a Twitter account for auto-posting of blog updates(if relevant).



besides double-entering of content for the common pages


Why double-entering? If the pages really are shared site-wide, just decide they'll be managed by one of the sections and deal with them there, the same way one of the WP installs is currently responsible for the homepage. (I assume.)

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