Creating and Managing a Blog Network with WordPress

This course presents the WordPress Multisite feature, which allows web site designers and administrators to create a network of sites and blogs from a single installation of WordPress. Author Justin Seeley covers installing the network components, configuring their web server/hosting environment, using the Multisite Network Administration panel, managing users, and backing up, migrating, and restoring a multisite installation.

Topics include:

• Optimizing the hosting environment for Multisite
• Enabling the Network feature
• Troubleshooting network configurations
• Creating your first site
• Installing and enabling themes on a per-site basis
• Defining a default theme sitewide
• Controlling access to sites
• Enabling features for site administrators
• Displaying a list of networked sites
• Broadcasting news across all sites
• Gathering and using comments network-wide
• Mapping domains and mapping to certain sites
• Installing and configuring BackupBuddy
• Migrating a stand-alone site into a network

 Table of content

Introduction

• Welcome

Getting to Know Multisite

• Introducing multisite
• Common use cases for multisite
• Understanding multisite server requirements
• Optimizing your hosting environment
• Using subdomains vs. subdirectories

Configuring Your Multisite Network

• Enabling the Network feature
• Installing your network
• Troubleshooting network configurations
• Disabling your network installation
• Changing your install type
• Removing the blog permalink

Network Administration

• Getting to know the network admin interface
• Configuring the network
• Creating your first site
• Managing your user database
• Installing and enabling themes
• Enabling themes on a per-site basis
• Defining a site-wide default theme
• Installing and activating plug-ins
• Updating your network installation

Controlling User Access

• Setting up user permissions
• Defining the registration process
• Controlling access to sites
• Importing users from another blog
• Understanding user roles
• Changing user roles on signup
• Exploring blog privacy settings
• Enabling features for site administrators

Working with Network-Wide Content

• Displaying posts from network sites on the home page
• Displaying a list of your networked sites
• Broadcasting news across all sites
• Gathering and using comments network-wide
• Creating and using global tags and categories
• Exploring network plug-ins

Working with Multiple Domains

• Introducing domain mapping
• Using parked or add-on domains
• Altering DNS records
• Installing the domain mapping plug-in
• Mapping a domain to a specific site
• Hiding the original domain name

Backing Up Your Multisite Installation

• Understanding the importance of backing up your web site
• Exploring backup plug-ins
• Installing and configuring BackupBuddy
• Migrating a standalone site into your network
• Migrating an entire network
• Scheduling backups with BackupBuddy
• Remotely storing your backups

Conclusion

• Final thoughts

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