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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.

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
WordPress Multisite Administration
WordPress Multisite Administration
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with WordPress Multisite
Getting Started with WordPress Multisite
System requirements and considerations
Terminology
Installing WordPress
Configuring the WordPress multisite feature
Summary
2
Customization
Customization
Theme management
Plugin management
Creating a blog directory / landing page
Summary
3
User Management and Permissions
User Management and Permissions
The Super Administrator
Individual site management
User roles and permissions
Summary
4
Protecting Your Multisite Network
Protecting Your Multisite Network
Understanding the basics
Securing wp-admin
Securing the wp-includes folder
Securing wp-config.php
Security through obscurity
Backups
Summary
5
Migrating Multiple WordPress Blogs to a Multisite Network
Migrating Multiple WordPress Blogs to a Multisite Network
Exporting your standalone blog content
Importing standalone content to a specific network blog
Installing the WordPress Importer plugin
Importing content to the network site
Summary
6
Site Optimization
Site Optimization
Client-side caching
Server-side caching
Lite Cache setup
CDNs and CloudFlare
Summary
7
Troubleshooting and Maintaining Stability
Troubleshooting and Maintaining Stability
Backups
Updating the WordPress core
Updating plugins and themes
Resources
Summary
Index
Index

Chapter 5. Migrating Multiple WordPress Blogs to a Multisite Network

WordPress multisite is a very attractive solution for individuals who manage multiple individual WordPress blogs. Bringing those individual blogs into one WordPress multisite network would be ideal, allowing the administrator to administer all blogs from one location, the Network dashboard.

The process of moving a standalone WordPress blog into a multisite network sounds as if it could be quite an undertaking but it's actually not that scary process.

In this chapter, I'll be using my longren.org blog as an example of a standalone WordPress site that we want to move to multisite.longren.org/tlongren/.

Before you do anything, I suggest you make multiple backups. Back up the standalone blog and back up the multisite network you're importing the standalone blog into. Just back everything up, please.

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