In Wordpress,

I have my main site at www.MySite Planning to start a forum at www.MySite/Forum (Subfolder)

Do I need to have separate security plugins, for e.g. Wordfence at root & subfolder, both?

If yes, does this have any complications, I DON't want to use and get into complexities of WP Multi Site.

Thanks in advance. Sahil

In Wordpress,

I have my main site at www.MySite Planning to start a forum at www.MySite/Forum (Subfolder)

Do I need to have separate security plugins, for e.g. Wordfence at root & subfolder, both?

If yes, does this have any complications, I DON't want to use and get into complexities of WP Multi Site.

Thanks in advance. Sahil

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• 1 So your main site is WordPress and you want to install another WordPress site to power your forum in a sub-directory? I don't see why you would need a separate installation as most of the forum plugins are likely configurable to run from a custom URL like /forum. Please add a little more detail to your question else it may end up closed. – Alexander Holsgrove Commented Apr 25, 2019 at 10:47
• I did some research and decided to do a subfolder installation as none of the forum plugins would include all the features we wanted (standalone) so we decided to do a separate theme (Discy forum ThemeForest). This is why we are going for www.mysite/com/forum (new WP, new Theme, to complement the main root site) Feel free to suggest a better approach, if available, please. – Sahil Commented Apr 25, 2019 at 20:08

1 Answer 1

It depends on the plugin. Some security plugins have settings that will check folders outside of the current WP install. Others don't. Some plugins may have complications if they are installed both places. Others won't.

With Wordfence specifically, both sites would need the plugin installed, and there are not issues with running the plugin in two "nested" sites. You'll just want to double-check that it's not set to scan folders outside of WP.