A multisite network can be very similar to your own personal version of WordPress.com. End users of your network can create their own sites on demand, or you can create a multisite network in which only you, the administrator, can add new sites. In this session, you'll learn about creating a multisite network, as well as walk through the steps to setting one up.

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Creating a WordPress Multisite Network

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Creating a WordPress
Multisite Network
Jonathan Bossenger

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6. Learning Outcomes
1. What is a multisite network?
2. Why use a multisite network?
3. Some examples of multisite networks.
4. How to set up a multisite network

7. What is a multisite network?
1. https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/create-a-network/
2. https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/before-you-create-a-network/

8. Why use a multisite network?
1. When you have a number of sites that are similar in nature, but that need to be
kept separate from each other.
2. When you have a group of sites that need to be managed by one person, but you
need control over which users can access specific sites.
3. When you have a number of sites that belong to the same organization.

9. Some examples of multisite networks.
1. https://www.asu.edu/academics/colleges-schools
2. https://www.urbanjustice.org/our-projects/
3. https://make.wordpress.org/

10. Setting up a multisite network
1. Web host support (examples)
• https://world.siteground.com/kb/how_can_i_install_wordpress_mu_multi_user/
• https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-multisite/#activate
2. Local development environment (examples)
• https://localwp.com/help-docs/advanced/wordpress-multisite-with-local/
• https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/devkinsta/subdomain-multisite/

11. Manual setup steps
1. Ability to edit WordPress files
2. .htaccess support
3. (optional) Subdomain support

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13. Resources
○ https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/create-a-network/
○ https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/before-you-create-a-network/