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WordPress Web Application Development

By : Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
Book Image

WordPress Web Application Development

By: Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
WordPress Web Application Development Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction to multisite


WordPress provides a module called multisite where you can create multiple networks of WordPress sites using a single installation. All the sites in the network share the same files. These sites can be installed as sub folders of the main site or sub domains. We need to know how WordPress multisite is used and how it can support web application development.

Let's identify the common usages of WordPress multisite:

  • It lets users create their own blog, website, or product selling website within your site. This is a widely used technique where you let your users purchase a membership to manage their site within your network.

  • It manages multiple products. WordPress theme and plugin developers use this technique to create demo sites for their plugins and themes using a single installation.

  • It manages the branches of a large scale organization. Many large organizations have branches in multiple countries. So, multisite allows them to manage a separate site for each country...