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You are landed on the right page if you are willing to set up and install
WordPress multisite network to build multiple websites on the same WordPress
installation.
It is most widely used by large organizations, educational institutes, or any
business where you need to run all websites separately under a single
dashboard.
In this guide, I will let you know a step-by-step guide with screenshots to show
you how to install and set up WordPress multisite network.
Table of contents:
Introduction to WordPress Multisite Network
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What is WordPress Multisite Network?
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What are the Main Advantages of a WordPress multisite network?
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What are the Disadvantages of a WordPress multisite network?
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WordPress Multisite Network: How to
install & setup it?
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2. WordPress Multisite Installation & Set up
WordPress Multisite Configuration Settings
Setting up New Sites, Themes, and Plugins
What is WordPress Multisite Network?
Why Is it used for?
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WordPress Multisite Network Requirements
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Choose a domain structure for WordPress multisite network
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How to set up subdomains
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Setup Custom Domain for each website in your multisite network
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Enable WordPress Multisite Network Feature
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How To Setup WordPress Multisite Network
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Configure Network Setting
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Open WordPress Multisite Network for Registrations
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New Site Settings
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Change Upload Settings
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Plugin Menu Setting
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How to Add New Sites to your Network?
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How to add Themes to Multisite Network?
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How to add Plugins to Multisite Network?
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3. As the name indicates, WordPress multisite Network runs and manages multiple
websites using a single WordPress installation. You can manage all of your
websites with a single username and password. It has advanced settings to
manage your websites from a single dashboard.
What are the Main Advantages of a WordPress multisite network?
In most situations, a WordPress multisite network is one of the best
approaches to manage all of your websites using a single dashboard. Following
are the main advantages:
What are the Disadvantages of a WordPress multisite network?
WordPress Multisite Network has many disadvantages that you should consider
before setting up your network:
As a network admin, you can manage multiple websites under a single
dashboard
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Each site also has separate admin panels to manage a single website
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Install multiple plugins/themes and activate them for all websites with a
single download
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Make it easier to update all your websites’ plugins, themes etc., on one
“master” install.
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All websites share the same resources that mean if your network is down,
all sites go down.
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In the beginning, it was not easy to manage traffic and hosting server
resources because if you got unexpected traffic on a single website, it
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4. Why Is it used for?
Following are the scenarios when multisite makes sense:
WordPress Multisite Network Requirements
All websites you will publish on a single dashboard using a multisite network will
share the same server resources. That indicates you should choose a good
WordPress Hosting to keep your sites active and running with high speed.
would affect all other websites on the network.
If a single website on your network is hacked, it means all of your websites
are hacked.
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Few plugins may not function in a multisite environment.
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WordPress multisite is not supported by all web hosting providers, but
Temok supports it.
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Any website with multiple sections managed by different teams
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A corporate business website with sub-branches on different locations
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Government or big organizations who use multisite for several departments
or locations
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A Network of blogs or informational websites published on multiple
subdomains
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Educational institutes allow students to create assignment blogs on a
college server
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5. If you have a couple of websites with low traffic, you can go with Linux shared
web hosting and increase the hosting resources in the future. When your sites
grow, you need a VPS or dedicated server to manage them efficiently.
Choose a domain structure for your multisite network
You have two options: either use subdirectories or subdomains for this purpose.
Sub-directory:
http://example.com/website1
Subdomain:
http://website1.exmaple.com
How to Setup Subdomains
Login to your cPanel account, search the subdomain and open it.

6. Create a subdomain as shown below in the screenshot:

7. Setup Custom Domain for each website in your multisite network
First, you have to change DNS servers if you have purchased your domain
names from another provider. There is no need to worry about it if you bought
the domain and hosting from a single provider such as Temok.
Enable WordPress Multisite Network Feature
Install WordPress as you do for a single website and enable the multisite
feature. However, you can also enable it in the existing WordPress website. But
if you want to enable this feature in the existing website, don’t forget to take
the complete backup of your website.
Open cPanel or FRP client and edit wp-config.php file.
Add the given line before the /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ line.

8. Save this file and upload it back to the server if you use an FTP client. This line
will enable the WordPress multisite feature.
How To Setup WordPress Multisite Network
Deactivate all of your installed plugins. Go to Plugins > Installed Plugins and
select all plugins. Choose deactivate from the dropdown menu and then click on
the apply button.
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/* Multisite */
define( 'WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true );

9. Open Network Setup under Tools to proceed further.

10. Make sure that you have installed Apache’s mod_rewrite module. Please ask
your hosting provider to install this module on your web hosting server if you are
unsure. Enter admin email and Network title and click on the install button as
shown above.
WordPress will show you some code to add to your wp-config.php and
.htaccess file.
Add this code into wp-config.php file:
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define( 'MULTISITE', true );
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'multisite-test.cp13-nl.temok.com' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/wp/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

11. Add this code into .htaccess file:
After adding this code, save these files and re-login to your WordPress website.
Configure Network Setting
Click on the Network admin, navigate to the Dashboard, add new sites and
configure other settings.
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteBase /wp/
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

12. Here, you will see two dashboard widgets to create a New Site and add New
Users.

13. Under the admin sidebar, click on the “Settings” link and set the site title and
admin email.

14. Open WordPress Multisite Network for Registrations
By default, both user and site registrations are disabled in your network.
However, you can choose to open your website for new registrations, allow new
users to create a new website or allow both of them.

15. Check the box next to the “Registration Notification” option to receive email
notifications whenever a new user is registered on your website.
Moreover, If you want to permit individual website admins to add new users to
their websites, you can select the option next to the “Add New Users” option.
New Site Settings
The “New Site Settings” will let you configure default settings and options for
new sites created on your WordPress multisite network. You can set welcome
email and the content you want to display for the first default post, page and
comments in these settings.
Change Upload Settings

16. It is recommended to keep an eye on resource utilization by changing the upload
setting and limiting the total space a website can use for uploads. By default, it
is 100MB for each website, and they can upload files within this specified range.
You can change it according to your hosting server’s disk space or any specific
requirements.
There are many default file types for images, videos, music and pdf files. You
can add or remove file types as per your specific requirements.
Plugin Menu Setting
You can also change menu settings and enable the admin menu for the plugins
section on your websites. When you enable it, every admin on your network will
be able to enable or disable a plugin on their websites. However, they will not be
able to install new plugins.
When you have made all the configuration changes, click on the “Save Changes”
button at the bottom of your page.
How to Add New Sites to your Network?
The process is quite simple. Click on the “Sites” from “Network Admin”, as
shown below in the screenshot. You will see all of your websites available on
your multisite installation. You can add a new website by clicking on the “Add
New” button.

17. Enter the site address that you want to be a part of the administrator’s
subdomain, title, and email address.
Admin will receive an email containing a link to set a new password and log in.
How to add Themes and Plugins to Multisite Network?
If you can’t change default settings, then an admin of an individual website
available on your network will not install themes and plugins on their website.
Install Themes On Your Multisite Network
Go to My Sites > Network Admin > Themes to open the WordPress themes
page. Here, you will see a list of installed themes on this network, so it should
be easier to make a theme available to other sites by clicking on the “Network
Enable” option under that particular theme. Vice versa, you can disable a theme

18. by clicking on the disable link under the theme. It will be only available if the
theme is enabled.
Click on the “Add New” button to add a new theme to your network. If installed,
you can make it available to all other sites on WordPress multisite network with
the “Network Enable” option.
Install Plugins on your Multisite Network
Visit My Sites > Network Admin > Plugins to install new plugins, activation or
deactivation for the network. If a plugin is installed, you will see a link named
“Network Activate” below each plugin to activate it on your whole network.

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