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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.

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WordPress Multisite Administration
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
WordPress Multisite Administration
WordPress Multisite Administration
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with WordPress Multisite
Getting Started with WordPress Multisite
System requirements and considerations
Terminology
Installing WordPress
Configuring the WordPress multisite feature
Summary
2
Customization
Customization
Theme management
Plugin management
Creating a blog directory / landing page
Summary
3
User Management and Permissions
User Management and Permissions
The Super Administrator
Individual site management
User roles and permissions
Summary
4
Protecting Your Multisite Network
Protecting Your Multisite Network
Understanding the basics
Securing wp-admin
Securing the wp-includes folder
Securing wp-config.php
Security through obscurity
Backups
Summary
5
Migrating Multiple WordPress Blogs to a Multisite Network
Migrating Multiple WordPress Blogs to a Multisite Network
Exporting your standalone blog content
Importing standalone content to a specific network blog
Installing the WordPress Importer plugin
Importing content to the network site
Summary
6
Site Optimization
Site Optimization
Client-side caching
Server-side caching
Lite Cache setup
CDNs and CloudFlare
Summary
7
Troubleshooting and Maintaining Stability
Troubleshooting and Maintaining Stability
Backups
Updating the WordPress core
Updating plugins and themes
Resources
Summary
Index
Index

Resources

There are some really great resources out there for WordPress; wordpress.org alone hosts a mountain of information, from the WordPress Codex to the community forums.

The Codex hosts basically every piece of documentation there is for WordPress. It covers literally everything that WordPress has to offer.

The community forums have a subforum specifically aimed at multisite installations. You can find it at http://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/.

There are also many third-party resources, such as WPMU (WordPress MU) , at http://wpmu.org/. It became incredibly popular within the WordPress community before WordPress 3.0 was available, so the "MU" in WPMU is a throwback to the pre 3.0 WordPress feature called Multi-User that essentially morphed into what multisite is today. They have a great explanation at http://wpmu.org/about/.

I've compiled a list of resources in the following table:

URL

Name/description

http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

This is the WordPress Codex. It...

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