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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

Importing standalone content to a specific network blog


I'm going to bring the .xml export file from my standalone WordPress blog into my Tyler blog, which is available at http://multisite.longren.org/tyler/. To do this, login to your multisite dashboard (http://multisite.longren.org/wp-admin/) and then mouse over the My Sites menu item in the top-left of the screen. Then mouse over the blog that you want to import into, Tyler's Blog in this case, and then click on Dashboard to get the dashboard for the network blog you want to import the export data into. Have a look at the following screenshot to see exactly what I'm talking about:

Go to dashboard of the blog to import into

Now you should be at the dashboard for the network blog that you're importing the data into. Since we're using my blog as an example here, you should now be at the Tyler's Blog dashboard, rather than the Network dashboard. You can see the dashboard for Tyler's Blog in the following screenshot:

Dashboard for Network blog...