Boone Gorges demonstrates the new built-in multisite functionality of WordPress 3.0 to the WordPress NYC Meetup audience.
Slides for this presentation are available here.
Video provided by Punkcast.
May 31, 2010
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June 1, 2010 at 1:04 am |
Thanks for the video!
You mentioned it works nicely with multiple domains, but what about if those domains are on multiple SERVERS?
Thanks!
June 1, 2010 at 3:33 am |
So fired up for this. Just in time for a site rehaul too!
I don’t know how you didn’t lose it when the questions kept coming and then you got the “can you please explain to me what a subdomain is?” Then you explain it and then you are asked “Well, please explain it to me using your “boone” example.”
June 1, 2010 at 7:07 am |
Boone, Thank you, Very useful information!
June 1, 2010 at 7:32 am |
Just thought it might be pertinent to mention the setup I’ve been using here for a while now. Tutorial is at http://theoephraim.com/tutorial-setting-up-wordpress-single-install-many-blogs/
It’s not using a single database (although it could be made to do so with some plugins), but it runs multiple blogs from a single wordpress installation. It’s working very well for me.
Like he says, one set of files, lots of separate blogs with different users, different plugins, etc. Makes updating much easier. Recently I’ve also started running some sites off the WP3beta and this makes it very easy to choose which ones, just a different symlink. Hope this is useful for someone.
June 1, 2010 at 4:39 pm |
Great presentation, a lot of features to go over and see how to successfully managed a blog network. My only question is if you can have a sign up form on the front page for users to create their own blog site & accounts, kind of like wordpress.com?