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WordPress Multisite Administration

By : Tyler Longren
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WordPress Multisite Administration

By: Tyler Longren

Overview of this book

WordPress is an incredibly popular blogging platform. Few people realize that the software behind WordPress.com, which is a standalone WordPress with multisite enabled, is available for free, for anyone to make use of. WordPress Multisite is a special “mode” built into WordPress, which allows you to create a network of multiple websites, all running on a single installation of WordPress. WordPress Multisite Administration is an easy-to-understand book filled with information, tips, and best practices to help you create and manage a blog network similar to http://wordpress.com/, by using WordPress Multisite. WordPress Multisite Administration will take you through all the steps necessary to get WordPress Multisite installed and configured on your server. It covers everything from installation and initial configuration to customizations and some helpful troubleshooting tips. You will also learn how to build your own blog directory that features the authors in your WordPress Multisite network. The blog directory is built by making use of WordPress child themes, an incredibly useful thing to know how to do. You'll learn everything you need to know about running and maintaining a WordPress Multisite installation.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
WordPress Multisite Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Security through obscurity


This isn't a great strategy for system security. We've already done some "security through obscuring" things, such as renaming the admin account to something else.

Another way we can make use of security through obscurity is to change the database table prefixes. By default, WordPress database tables have the wp_ prefix. The database table prefix is set in wp-config.php. Changing the database table prefix can be a real pain if you do it after you've installed WordPress. It's always a good idea to decide what table prefix you'd like to use before beginning with the WordPress installation.

For this, we're going to assume we're starting off with a fresh WordPress multisite install. Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php. Open it up and set all your database connection settings and everything, just as we talked about in the Configuring the WordPress multisite feature section in Chapter 1, Getting Started with WordPress Multisite.

Now look for the line that starts...