WP Multisite Master Class

So, what is WordPress Multisite and how can it help you?

Well, this allows you to create and manage a network of sites within one installation. It's really nice, especially when you have different authors or different departments. And you want these different departments or different clients to be able to manage perhaps their own blog.

Let’s say for example that you have www.yourdomain.com/blog and in a different case, you have /blog2 or blog3 or different types of departments /finance – and instead of having to install four or five or six or even ten different WordPress installations, you simply need to install WordPress Multisite and you can manage all of those different blogs, all of those different sub-folders within one installation.

So, that’s when this WordPress Multisite comes in handy.

So, some quick and easy practical xxamples of this include things like a magazine or a blog with different sections managed by different teams. A business site with sub-sites for different locations or different branches. So, for example, if you want a different location to have their own site underneath your domain name, such as yourdomain.com/location1 or /location2 and you don’t want them to have access to each other’s locations, this would be a good example of that.

Another example is your own business network of blogs running on multiple sub-domains. Or you allow your members to create their own blogs on your own sites. You know, you have schools that also use WordPress Multisite when they want to have their own staff members to have their own blog or their own students to have their very own blog.

So, this is what multisite is all about. These are the different practical examples of this.

So, here are some real life uses. If you’re aware of WordPress.org, you know, you could go there and you could create your own WordPress blog. So, there are thousands of WordPress blogs. WordPress Multisite is used in that situation. So, in other words, WordPress uses this to create thousands and millions of blogs. And people can maintain these blogs and they’re not going to be able to have access to other people’s blogs. This is the great benefit of this. But as a super administrator, you can see everybody’s blog.

You can give plugins, themes, and everything else and give access to all the blogs out there. So, you can basically specify – hey, I only want these WordPress themes or these plugins available; and these people, these bloggers or your customers or clients only have access to these themes or plugins. So, this really has the ability to give you full control over your network of sites. Another situation, as I said earlier, e-Learning or schools; you can allow your students or teachers to have their own blog.

So, there are many, many hundreds of different ways of using this. These are just a few examples to give you some ideas on practical application that you can use right away.