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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

Terminology


There are going to be some basic WordPress-related terms that you'll want to become familiar with. These terms usually apply to multisite and a standard WordPress single-site install. You can check some of the terminologies used in WordPress at http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Semantics.

Now that you've got some basic WordPress knowledge, we might as well get to downloading and installing WordPress. The WordPress installation process is very easy, only requiring you to upload the files to your webhost and then to edit database connection settings in a file named wp-config.php.

Before we get too far, we need to take a couple things into consideration. First, think about how you want URLs to be set up. You can use subdomains for each individual's blog URL or you can use a subfolder style setup, such as http://multisite.longren.org/tyler/. Also, installing themes and plugins is a bit different from a typical WordPress install, but we'll get to that a bit later in this chapter. I really suggest reading the Before You Create A Network article in the WordPress Codex, available at http://codex.wordpress.org/Before_You_Create_A_Network.

Okay, let's get down to installing WordPress and enabling the multisite feature.