WordPress and Multisite

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