4. Why would I want that?
• Updating all of your sites? One click!
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5. Why would I want that?
• Updating all of your sites? One click!
• Sharing plugins and themes across sites;
quick updates!
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6. Why would I want that?
• Updating all of your sites? One click!
• Sharing plugins and themes across sites;
quick updates!
• Hosting your clients
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7. Why would I want that?
• Updating all of your sites? One click!
• Sharing plugins and themes across sites;
quick updates!
• Hosting your clients
• Demo a site to a client: develop on your
multisite, then deploy to their server
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8. Why would I want that?
• Updating all of your sites? One click!
• Sharing plugins and themes across sites;
quick updates!
• Hosting your clients
• Demo a site to a client: develop on your
multisite, then deploy to their server
• Multilingual sites
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28. Must-use plugins (mu-plugins)
• They are always on and can’t be deactivated
unless the files are removed from /mu-plugins/
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29. Must-use plugins (mu-plugins)
• They are always on and can’t be deactivated
unless the files are removed from /mu-plugins/
• loaded and run before normal plugins
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30. Must-use plugins (mu-plugins)
• They are always on and can’t be deactivated
unless the files are removed from /mu-plugins/
• loaded and run before normal plugins
• one example: Domain Mapping plugin
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36. You can have:
• example.com
• anotherexample.ca
• yetanotherexample.org
• example.com/subsite too!
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37. How do I map my domains?
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38. How do I map my domains?
• Add the domain to your Parked Domains in
cPanel
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39. How do I map my domains?
• Add the domain to your Parked Domains in
cPanel
• WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin
• Install and network activate
• move sunrise.php to /wp-content/
• add define( 'SUNRISE', 'on' ); to wp-
config.php
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40. How do I map my domains?
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41. How do I map my domains?
• go to Super Admin -> Settings -> Domain Mapping and add your server’s IP
address
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42. How do I map my domains?
• go to Super Admin -> Settings -> Domain Mapping and add your server’s IP
address
• Create the site
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43. How do I map my domains?
• go to Super Admin -> Settings -> Domain Mapping and add your server’s IP
address
• Create the site
• Find the site’s ID
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44. How do I map my domains?
• go to Super Admin -> Settings -> Domain Mapping and add your server’s IP
address
• Create the site
• Find the site’s ID
• Add your domains in Settings -> Domains
• make sure to check “Primary”:
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45. How do I map my domains?
• go to Super Admin -> Settings -> Domain Mapping and add your server’s IP
address
• Create the site
• Find the site’s ID
• Add your domains in Settings -> Domains
• make sure to check “Primary”:
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48. Networks+ plugin
• Allows a Multisite network within another
multisite network
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49. Networks+ plugin
• Allows a Multisite network within another
multisite network
• nested subdomains: city.state.domain.com
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50. Networks+ plugin
• Allows a Multisite network within another
multisite network
• nested subdomains: city.state.domain.com
• top-level domains with their own child
sites:
• anotherexample.ca/subsite
• yetanotherexample.com/subsite
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