multisite for the masses

Multisite for the Masses

Richard ArchambaultHappiness Engineer - WordPress.com

@richardmtl

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Multisite? What’s that?

One WordPress installation, many sites

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Why would I want that?

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Why would I want that?• Updating all of your sites? One click!

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Why would I want that?• Updating all of your sites? One click!

• Sharing plugins and themes across sites; quick updates!

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Why would I want that?• Updating all of your sites? One click!

• Sharing plugins and themes across sites; quick updates!

• Hosting your clients

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Why would I want that?• Updating all of your sites? One click!

• Sharing plugins and themes across sites; quick updates!

• Hosting your clients

• Demo a site to a client: develop on your multisite, then deploy to their server

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Why would I want that?• Updating all of your sites? One click!

• Sharing plugins and themes across sites; quick updates!

• Hosting your clients

• Demo a site to a client: develop on your multisite, then deploy to their server

• Multilingual sites

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Multisite Examples

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Multisite Examples

• The big one: WordPress.com

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Multisite Examples

• The big one: WordPress.com

• Canada World Youth

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Multisite Examples

• The big one: WordPress.com

• Canada World Youth

• Edublogs.org

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Multisite Examples

• The big one: WordPress.com

• Canada World Youth

• Edublogs.org

• My sites!

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Ok, how do I activate the Multisite Goodness?

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Make a backup!!!!!!!

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Seriously, make a backup!!!

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Read this:

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Saturday, 27 April, 13

wp-config.php

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Network Setup

Saturday, 27 April, 13

copy to wp-config.php and .htaccess

Saturday, 27 April, 13

My Sites!Saturday, 27 April, 13

Adding SitesSaturday, 27 April, 13

Wow, new sites in my network!

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Manage ALL THE SITES!Saturday, 27 April, 13

Manage Themes

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Manage Plugins

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Must-use plugins (mu-plugins)

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Must-use plugins (mu-plugins)

• They are always on and can’t be deactivated unless the files are removed from /mu-plugins/

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Must-use plugins (mu-plugins)

• They are always on and can’t be deactivated unless the files are removed from /mu-plugins/

• loaded and run before normal plugins

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Must-use plugins (mu-plugins)

• They are always on and can’t be deactivated unless the files are removed from /mu-plugins/

• loaded and run before normal plugins

• one example: Domain Mapping plugin

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Manage Users

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Domain Mapping

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Instead of:

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Instead of:

• example.com/subsite

• example.com/anothersubsite

• example.com/yetanothersubsite

Saturday, 27 April, 13

You can have:

Saturday, 27 April, 13

You can have:

• example.com

• anotherexample.ca

• yetanotherexample.org

• example.com/subsite too!

Saturday, 27 April, 13

How do I map my domains?

Saturday, 27 April, 13

How do I map my domains?

• Add the domain to your Parked Domains in cPanel

Saturday, 27 April, 13

How do I map my domains?

• Add the domain to your Parked Domains in cPanel

• WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin

• Install and network activate

• move sunrise.php to /wp-content/

• add define( 'SUNRISE', 'on' ); to wp-config.php

Saturday, 27 April, 13

How do I map my domains?

Saturday, 27 April, 13

How do I map my domains?• go to Super Admin -> Settings -> Domain Mapping and add your server’s IP

address

Saturday, 27 April, 13

How do I map my domains?• go to Super Admin -> Settings -> Domain Mapping and add your server’s IP

address

• Create the site

Saturday, 27 April, 13

How do I map my domains?• go to Super Admin -> Settings -> Domain Mapping and add your server’s IP

address

• Create the site

• Find the site’s ID

Saturday, 27 April, 13

How do I map my domains?• go to Super Admin -> Settings -> Domain Mapping and add your server’s IP

address

• Create the site

• Find the site’s ID

• Add your domains in Settings -> Domains

• make sure to check “Primary”:

Saturday, 27 April, 13

How do I map my domains?• go to Super Admin -> Settings -> Domain Mapping and add your server’s IP

address

• Create the site

• Find the site’s ID

• Add your domains in Settings -> Domains

• make sure to check “Primary”:

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Networks+ plugin

http://wpebooks.com/networks/

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Networks+ plugin

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Networks+ plugin

• Allows a Multisite network within another multisite network

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Networks+ plugin

• Allows a Multisite network within another multisite network

• nested subdomains: city.state.domain.com

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Networks+ plugin

• Allows a Multisite network within another multisite network

• nested subdomains: city.state.domain.com

• top-level domains with their own child sites:

• anotherexample.ca/subsite

• yetanotherexample.com/subsite

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Useful Plugins

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Useful Plugins• Enforce Strong Password

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Useful Plugins• Enforce Strong Password

• Hide Welcome Panel for Multisite

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Useful Plugins• Enforce Strong Password

• Hide Welcome Panel for Multisite

• Multisite Bulk User Management

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Useful Plugins• Enforce Strong Password

• Hide Welcome Panel for Multisite

• Multisite Bulk User Management

• Multisite Plugin Manager

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Useful Plugins• Enforce Strong Password

• Hide Welcome Panel for Multisite

• Multisite Bulk User Management

• Multisite Plugin Manager

• Multisite Toolbar Additions

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Useful Plugins• Enforce Strong Password

• Hide Welcome Panel for Multisite

• Multisite Bulk User Management

• Multisite Plugin Manager

• Multisite Toolbar Additions

• Network Plugin Auditor

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Useful Plugins• Enforce Strong Password

• Hide Welcome Panel for Multisite

• Multisite Bulk User Management

• Multisite Plugin Manager

• Multisite Toolbar Additions

• Network Plugin Auditor

• Network Switch Button

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Useful Plugins• Enforce Strong Password

• Hide Welcome Panel for Multisite

• Multisite Bulk User Management

• Multisite Plugin Manager

• Multisite Toolbar Additions

• Network Plugin Auditor

• Network Switch Button

• Simple History

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Useful Plugins• Enforce Strong Password

• Hide Welcome Panel for Multisite

• Multisite Bulk User Management

• Multisite Plugin Manager

• Multisite Toolbar Additions

• Network Plugin Auditor

• Network Switch Button

• Simple History

• Site Replicator for WordPress networks

Saturday, 27 April, 13

Go forth and multi-site!

Saturday, 27 April, 13