There are many approaches to building websites, but when it comes time to managing multiple websites, the approach that utilizes the most reusable code makes it a lot easier. By leveraging one theme to run multiple websites, you only have to familiarize yourself with one codebase and turn the development and managing of multiple websites into one.

1. Managing your sites the
CHEEZburger way
Senior Consultant
Brian Cohn

2. Challenges of managing multiple
websites
-Each website needs customizations
-The more customizations there are, the more the
code becomes different between the sites
-This can cause a lot of time lost refamiliarizing
yourself with each site’s code base
-Can lead to writing different code for each site
that accomplishes the same task

3. What’s Cheezcap?
-Provides a simple interface in the admin for
handling theme customizations
-Is created by one configuration files
-Can contain groups of text inputs, text areas,
booleans, and select drop downs

4. Cheezcap advantages
-Keeps the interface just as big as needed without
adding excess options
-The same configuration can be used by many
themes to manage different websites
-Allows for import/export of input for ease of
transfering settings between environments and for
version control
-WordPress.com VIP approved

5. Practical use cases
-Allow inclusion of css and javascript files using
wordpress enqueueing without hardcoding them
-Create new sidebars on the fly without hardcoding
them
-Allow for the new sidebars to be included on a per
page basis
-Set analytics code

6. Simple admin example

7. Simple config file example

8. Simple code example

9. Useful Links
This demo’s source code: https://github.com/shawcohn/cheezcap-example
Cheezcap download:https://github.com/tmtrademark/cheezcap
Fieldmanager: https://github.com/alleyinteractive/wordpress-fieldmanager

10. Questions?
bcohn@northpointdigital.com
Presentation: http://bit.ly/1fRyQX6
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