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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

CDNs and CloudFlare


I use CloudFlare for caching and security purposes but I just use the free plan. The free plan is awesome and I think everyone should use it. You don't even need to use CloudFlare as a CDN, but you can use it as a central place to manage DNS for all of your registered domain names.

CloudFlare acts as a reverse proxy for your website, according to the post on the CloudFlare blog that is available at http://blog.cloudflare.com/top-tips-for-new-cloudflare-users. They even have a WordPress plugin to make capturing visitors' real IP addresses easy and to tap into Akismet for not allowing known spammers to load your site. If you're interested in more about CloudFlare, I suggest reading this post from the CloudFlare blog as well. It even mentions WordPress integration.

CloudFlare gives really cool stats too; see an example in the following screenshot:

Cool CloudFlare stats

I have to suggest that everyone use the Jetpack plugin from Automattic as well. With that plugin, there is...