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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide

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WordPress MU 2.8: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

WordPress MU enables you to build a complete, professional blog network. Each user gets their own blog, and can choose their favorite templates and plug-ins, and develop their own content. WordPress MU powers some of the largest blog networks in the world, including the mighty WordPress.com ñ home to thousands of bloggers. This book will take you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network, using a real, working blog network as an example, so that you can follow the creation process step-by-step. Your blogging network will be complete with professional features such as friends lists, status feeds, groups, forums, photo galleries, and more, to build your own WordPress.com ñ a place where users can quickly come and create a blog for themselves. The book starts with a clean install of WordPress MU, and as you work through the book, you will build the blog network, and add on more and more features, all seamlessly integrated to achieve a professional, custom-built look.You will find new themes and plug-ins added to the site, as well as customization of the WordPress multi-user code. The book will also look at ways you can manage your community, and keep your site safe and secure, ensuring that it is a spam-free, enjoyable community for your users. In the later chapters, you will add a forum using the bbPress script, and add BuddyPress social networking components to your site. Imagine how good you'll feel when your first WordPress multi-user blog network launches.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
WordPress MU 2.8 Beginner’s Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a database for WordPress MU


  1. Open phpMyAdmin in your browser.

  2. Enter a simple but clear name for the database—I've chosen slayerblogs. Now click Create.

    Tip

    Naming your database

    Some shared web hosts prepend your username to all database names. For example, if your username is "lhar1" and you chose "slayerblogs" as the database name, it would come out as "lhar1_slayerblogs". If you want to have identical setups on both the live and local servers, double-check the naming conventions of your web host before creating your local database.

  3. Now you'll need to create a user, which WordPress MU will use to access the database. To do this, click on the Home icon located on the lefthand side of the page.

  4. Select the Privileges tab and click add new user.

  5. Enter the username and password into the relevant field.

  6. Select Localhost for the host field. Leave the other fields as default.

  7. Don't set any privileges yet. Just scroll down and click Go.

  8. Scroll down to Database Specific Privileges...