One topic that comes up time and time again in the comments on our Multisite posts is SEO. People often want to know how running a Multisite network will affect SEO, both for the main site and for other sites or blogs in the network. There isn’t a simple answer to the question “How will Multisite affect my SEO?” The way in …
How to Customize the WordPress Multisite Activation Email with a Plugin
One of Multisite’s useful features is the way it lets you change the experience users get when they first register a site on your network. You can edit their welcome email and change the default content that’s created for their site. You do this by configuring your network settings in Settings > Network Settings. But there are two emails that are …
Introducing WPMU DEV Multisite Hosting – Join the Beta Program!
Did you know that over the past 10 years we’ve become the largest hosting provider for WordPress in education? It’s been an extraordinary ride and today I’m thrilled to announce we’re expanding this to the rest of the web. Introducing WPMU DEV Hosting, the ultimate enterprise-level WordPress Multisite solution. CampusPress… But For Everyone! The very genesis of our parent company, …
Moving a WordPress Site Into a Multisite Network – The Tricky But Thorough Way
In a recent post, I demonstrated the easy way to move a WordPress site into a Multisite network, using plugins. For many sites, this method works perfectly fine. But what if your site’s settings are a bit more complex? If you move your site using plugins, you’ll be able to move two things: your content (posts, pages, custom post types, …
How to Move a Single WordPress Site into a Multisite Network
One of the most frequent questions I’ve been asked by students completing the WordPress Multisite course in The Academy is this: how do you move an existing WordPress site into a Multisite network? This post is designed to answer that question and take you through the steps you need to follow to move a site into a network. I’ll look …
Multisite, Hummingbird and Cloudflare: Make Your WordPress Network Blisteringly Fast
You may have caught the recent announcement that our Hummingbird performance plugin has been integrated with CloudFlare. But given that CloudFlare works on a domain level, what does this mean if you’re running a Multisite network? The good news is that with one CloudFlare account you can cover multiple domains. Unlike many services, you don’t need a separate account for each …
Q&A: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About WordPress Multisite Answered
If you’re a keen follower of this blog, you’ll have noticed my series of posts on WordPress Multisite a few weeks ago. And if you’re learning about Multisite, you may have signed up to my Academy course on the subject. The comments, questions and discussions that the courses and posts have generated have been awesome, to say the least. Dozens of …
WordPress Development for Intermediate Users: Making Your Themes Customizer-Ready
It used to be that if you wanted to give users of your themes a way to customize aspects of their site or the theme, you’d create a theme options page. But now the best way (and the expected method for themes submitted to the theme directory) is to make use of the Customizer. This is the second post in …
New Academy Courses: Announcing the BEST Multisite Course on the Web
You know how we’re the Multisite experts here at WPMU DEV? Well, we want to upload everything we know about Multisite directly into your brain, Matrix-style. Enrollments are now open for three new courses in The Academy: WordPress Multisite Masterclass, WordPress Development for Intermediate Users, and (by popular demand) our CEO James Farmer’s hugely successful Dream Small, Market Big & …
WordPress Multisite Masterclass: Managing your Network
If you’re used to managing a standalone WordPress site, you’ll find that there are a few differences when it comes to managing a network. And you’ll also need to manage any sites you personally own on your network, too – the base site, for example. Welcome to the final tutorial in our six-part WordPress Multisite Masterclass. In this series so far, you’ve learned how to …