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- 1. Effectively manage and Scale WordPress Multisite and Importance of Insights Neel Shah @neelshah91 New York University Harshit Sanghvi @harshit_ps
- 2. Contents WP at NYU Plugin/Theme Update Process Mirroring Production to Dev/QA Dynamic Site Creation Process Importance of Insights
- 3. https://wp.nyu.edu Web Publishing - Stats 5227 Sites 17880 Users 65 Plugins 52 Themes Site Type: 52% Teaching & Learning
- 4. https://wp.nyu.edu Web Publishing - Stack AWS EC2 Instance Amazon Aurora DB Redis Cache PHP 7 NGINX Server Shibboleth Single Sign On
- 5. Selecting Hosting Provider Your Current Team Level of Support Level of Access Flexibility Support for Single Sign On Production and Dev Resource Sharing Cost
- 6. Plugin/ Theme Update Process
- 7. Benefits Avoid unwanted code in Production Shorter release cycles Tools CAC tools for wp-cli (https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/wp-cli-cac) Behat for unit tests Jenkins CI Plugin/ Theme Update Process
- 8. Mirroring Production to Dev/ QA
- 9. Mirroring Production to Dev/ QA Benefits Fully mirrored Dev/QA environment Backup db for large multisite Migrate from one hosting provider to another Tools Mirror_db (https://github.com/neelakansha85/mirror_db) Jenkins CI
- 10. New Site Creation Process - wp- signup.php
- 11. SELECT TYPE Dynamic Site Creation Process
- 12. CHOOSE WHAT YOU NEED Essential Settings
- 15. YAY! Finish
- 16. Benefits Enhancing current wp-signup page Tools Site Setup Wizard (https://wordpress.org/plugins/site-setup-wizard) Dynamic Site Creation Process
- 17. Importance of Insights into Multisite
- 18. Some unanswered questions How many sites are being created and when? What is the most popular theme or a plugin among all the sites? Are all my plugins compatible with latest WordPress version? Are any of my 10000s sites getting spammed? Is some user misbehaving within my multisite environment which affect overall network performance? How are my users connected to each other through different sites?
- 19. WP Network Stats Developed for New York University Can answer all of the above questions and many more Features - Background processing for generating new statistics for the network. It allows you to safely generate stats without compromising the performance of your large multisite network. Ability to fine tune batch processing settings. Protected network admin settings. Notification when the stats are available. Analytics dashboard using D3 charts to gain insights into some of the generated data.
- 20. Multidimensional Detective Find sites with >200 users, >20 active plugins, >1000 posts, >5000 comments or >1000 attachments
- 21. Multidimensional Detective Find sites with >200 users, >20 active plugins, >1000 posts, >5000 comments or >1000 attachments
- 22. Some Insights from NYU’s WordPress service
- 23. Sites Created By Date vs. Time of Day
- 24. Site Privacy, Active Theme, DB Version
- 25. Sites Registered Over Time
- 26. Users Registered between two dates
- 28. Use cases Send targeted communication emails. e.g., To all the admins of sites which has more than 1000 attachments about potential violation of terms of use. To site admin who is allowing comments from public about potential spam issues. To all the users who use a specific plugin/theme about upcoming changes to that plugin/theme. Decide migration strategies when replacing/retiring a plugin/theme based on its usage. What to do when a plugin/theme is found incompatible with latest WordPress release
- 29. Thank You Harshit Sanghvi @harshit_ps Neel Shah @neelshah91 Questions?
Editor's Notes
- Current team - consists of developers/system admin etc to host internally or externally Level of Support - weather you expect hosting provider to provide assistance with troubleshooting Plugin/Theme issues or application specific issues Level of Access - SSH or wp-cli? Remote DB access? Git setup Flexibility - is it flexible enough to add individual components to the insfrastructure if needed? Room for expansion and growth Cost -