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WordPress 5 Cookbook

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Book Image

WordPress 5 Cookbook

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By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

WordPress has been the most popular content management system (CMS) for many years and is now powering over 30% of all websites globally. With the demand for WordPress development and skilled developers ever-increasing, now is the best time to learn WordPress inside out. This book starts with simple recipes for configuring WordPress and managing basic platform features. You’ll then move on to explore how to install and customize WordPress plugins, widgets, and themes. The next few chapters cover recipes for content and user-management-related topics such as customizing the content display, working with content types, using the new Gutenberg editor, and customizing editorial workflow for building advanced blogs. As you advance, you’ll learn how to use WordPress as an application framework as well as a platform for building e-commerce sites. This WordPress book will also help you optimize your site to maximize visibility on search engines, add interactivity, and build a user community to make the site profitable. Finally, you’ll learn how to maintain a WordPress site smoothly while taking precautions against possible security threats. By the end of the book, you’ll have the tools and skills required to build and maintain modern WordPress websites with the latest technologies and be able to find quick solutions to common WordPress problems.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Cloning a site in a multisite installation

The Multisite feature gives us the ability to share the same installation and resources for multiple sites. However, it should only be used when you need a network with a large number of sites. In such scenarios, many of these sites may use the same theme and certain plugins, as well as certain settings. So, manually creating a site, installing the theme, installing plugins, and configuring settings becomes a tedious task for the administrator.

The cloning feature allows us to automatically create a new clone of an existing site, including all its configurations, within seconds. This will reduce the workload of the super administrator as well as avoid making mistakes with manual configurations.

In this recipe, we are going to look at the process of cloning a site in a multisite network using an existing WordPress plugin.

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