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WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition)

WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition)

By : RACHEL MCCOLLIN
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WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition)

WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (Second Edition)

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By: RACHEL MCCOLLIN

Overview of this book

WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS) and you can use it to create any kind of site you or your clients need. Using free plugins and themes for WordPress, you can create a store, a social media site, a review site, a video site, a network of sites or a community site, and more. Wordpress makes your job of creating your own website simple and hassle-free! If you’ve started using WordPress to create a blog or simple website, you’ll have had a taste of the opportunities offered by this massively popular CMS. This book will take you through the process of creating ten popular kinds of site using WordPress with free plugins and themes, each chapter covering various functionality of the web. After having learned how to migrate from your static site to Wordpress in the first chapter, you will then explore the world of social networking websites followed focusing on e-commerce. Without writing too much code, you’ll be able to create a store, a video streaming site, a team communications site, a jobs board, and more. This book is a one-stop solution to resolve all your worries about creating a website that will give the best experience to your users.
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Introducing WordPress Multisite

So, what is Multisite? It's defined on the Codex as follows:

"A feature of WordPress 3.0 and later versions that allows multiple virtual sites to share a single WordPress installation."

This means that by installing WordPress just once, you can run as many sites as you need. And what's even better is that these can all run different themes and plugins and have their own domain names too if you use a plugin to help with domain mapping.

We'll learn all about this as we work through this chapter.

Uses for Multisite

WordPress Multisite has three main uses:

  • Creating a network of sites for use by one person or organization, for example, I use a Multisite installation at http://rachelmccollin.com/ to host a network of demo sites, each of which supports a tutorial or book I've written. Organizations such as BBC America (http://www.bbcamerica.com) use Multisite to host a network of blogs.
  • Hosting multiple client sites in one place. I use another...
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