WordPress and Multisite
Multisite in a nutshell
The ability to have multiple individual sites within one installation and one database, referred to as a network.
How it began
WordPress MU
How it began
WordPress.com
back then
Here's where we came in
HomeschoolJournal
Here's what else it does
Merge Happens
3.0 & core contributions
But enough about us
Who else uses the magic of multisite?
News & Magazines
like multisite
LeMonde - Les Blogs
NY Times
b5media
big business
likes it
Fantech
Best Buy
Universities
really like it
Ryerson
CUNY
UMW
even WordPress
eats their own dogfood
WordPress.com - one networkBuddyPress.org - one networkWordPress.org - one install, multiple networks (Inception!) make.wordpress.org (ui, themes, accessibility) learn.wordpress.org (still working on it)
- http://www.esm.rochester.edu/- Harvard, UBC, U Calgary personal - ipstenu - liberal association- http://cheapflights.co.uk/- http://www.sdcounties.org/ subdomain for each county- intranets
Recap time - multisite works for
big small personal client devtheme demospersonalmultilingual
businessesmedia universities & collegeshyperlocalsocial networksassociations
and maybe your next network of sites
Questions?
come to tomorrow's workshop