When to use WordPress MultiSite WordCamp Nepal 2012
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When to use WordPress MultiSite WordCamp Nepal 2012
- How, why and where to use WordPress MultiSite Extending WordPress
- About Me: Utsav singh @rathour WordPress Enthusiast, A wannabe entrepreneur CEO/Founder Code Pixelz Media (@codepixelzmedia) Blogs at http://codepixelz.com
- What is Multisite? Multiple Website. What else? So what is WordPress multisite? Obviously Multiple Websites hosted in WordPress. So what's the catch? All of these sites are under single installation of WP
- The Origin >>
- Ba dum tsss..... MultiSite
- Regular v/s Multisite Regular WordPress Single Site Each new site needs new installation Multiple Installation of Plugins, Themes Single set of Users
- Regular v/s Multisite WordPress Multisite • Multiple (Network of) Sites • Single installation for 'n' number of websites • Single installation of Plugins, themes for all. • Multiple set of Users • Super Administrator to control the Network
- How it works?
- When? 1. You have a number of sites running on WordPress 2. You are looking for an easy way to maintain your network of blogs 3. Want to allow people to run their websites/blog on your Installation 4. Save time from installing same plugins, themes over and over again.
- Where to? Personal Multiple Blogs, websites Academic Different sites focusing on different faculties, courses or academia. Organizational Team or division based information site or blogs. Regular Blogging Network of blogs Hosting Sites Host different sites of client under one roof, easier to maintain.
- Where not to? Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to Diffierent Post Type of same niche. (Try custom post type) Users Need To Install Themes/Plugins Single Website or blog
- Who's using this? WordPress (WordPress.com) BestBuy Powersites.net New York Times (nytimes.com/blogs)
- Did you know? New York Times has 60+ blogs covering a wide range of topics Powersites.net has 17000+ small business websites WordPress.com hosts 57,600,799 (while creating this presentation) blogs
- How do I get started? Open up wp-config.php and add this line /* Multisite */ define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
- How do I get started? Go to Network Setup Menu on Dashboard Choose Sub Directory or Sub Domain Detailed installation instructions: http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network
- Data Handling Creates new set of tables for each Site New tables added _blogs, _registration_log, _signups, _site, _sitemeta New tables for every new site/blog
- Should I be using it? Are you kidding me? I spent my 10-15 minutes explaining why you should. Go ahead Try it. Build it. Make wonders. Conquer the World.
- That's it, Me Lord! Thanks for bearing :)
- Still got questions?