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Scott McCollumExtension Information [email protected] | @scottmccollum
Mike VysockaExtension Information Technology
[email protected] | @thewebvy
1997
Through the years ...
2004
2005 2010
2012
● Thousands of pieces of content to move● Update and request new DNS entries● Setup tons of 301 Redirects, RedirectMatch● Actively communicate with users● Provide training for users
What did WordPress give us?
● A real Content Management System● Blogging: Point, Click, Publish● Core Updates● A huge user community ● ...
Could a single Wordpress instance, without any plugins, and just a single theme keep 100+ site owners happy
?
BUT …
and no, we’re not using WordPress MU
YES
184 domains created
strawberries
pender growingsmallfarms
www.ces.ncsu.edu
148 are live today.
mecklenburg
651 usershave published or edited content
19,000 pages/posts currently published
6,500,000 page views since launching July 1, 2012
As of April 2014 ...
October 25, 2013
We went mobile
* .ces.ncsu.edu domainsalamance - alexander - alleghany - als - anr - anson - ashe - avery - beaufort - bertie - bladen - blueberries - brunswick - buncombe - burke - cabarrus - cabbage - caldwell - calsleadership - camden - carteret - caswell - catawba - chatham - cherokee - chowan - clay - cleveland - colecrops - columbus - communitydevelopment - conference - cotton - craven - cucurbits - cumberland - currituck - cutflowers - dare - davidson - davie - duplin - durham - ebci - edgecombe - eggplant - energy - entomology - eod - espanol - evaluation - extensiongardener - fcs - fieldtoschool - floriculture - foodsafety - forsyth - franklin - gardening - gaston - gates - giving - graham - granville - grapes - greene - greenhousecrops - greens - growingsmallfarms - guilford - halifax - harnett - haywood - henderson - hertford - hoke - horticulture - hyde - intranet2 - ipm - iredell - jackson - johnston - jones - lee - lenoir - lettuce - lincoln - localfood - macon - madison - marketingtoolkit - martin - mcdowell - meatgoats - mecklenburg - mitchell - montgomery - moore - nash - nc10percent - ncce100years - ncchoices - nccommunitygardens - ncdisaster - ncstepstohealth - newhanover - northampton - northcentral - northeast - onslow - orange - pamlico - pasquotank - peaches - pender - peppers - perquimans - person - pesticidenews - pitt - plantpathology - poinsettias - polk - postharvest - poultry - poultry4hyouth - randolph - registration - richmond - robeson - rockingham - rootcrops - rowan - rubus - rutherford - sampson - scotland - shellfish - soils - southcentral - southeast - soybeans - spinach - stanly - state - stokes - strawberries - surry - sustainability - swain - sweetpotatoes - therapeutic-hort - tobacco - tomatoes - transylvania - tyrrell - union - vance - vegetables - wake - warren - washington - watauga - wayne - weeds - west - wilkes - wilson - yadkin - yancey
How does it work?
We use all 4th level domainssomeName.ces.ncsu.edusomeOtherName.ces.ncsu.edu... yes, we use 180+ of them.
You could easily do this for your domainmySiteName.myuniv.edumySiteName2.myuniv.edu... ^ and, they don't even have to be fourth level!
Using DNS, every sub-domain is aliased to the same server
http://wolfpack.ces.ncsu.edu
$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”]
echo preg_replace(“/\.ces\.ncsu\.edu$/”, ‘’, $_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”] );// prints “wolfpack”
Keep it simple.Do your best to avoid one-off feature requests, use a common header / footer with only slight variations. Can the code you write be used on 10 or more domains?
lines of code in our theme’s functions.php file handle the edge cases, quirky requests, custom views, and self-imploding ideas our 650+ users have for their 180+ websites
1900
/* and about 15% of those lines are comments! */
Creating a new site is easy.1. We get a DNS entry for the new domaini.e. wolfpack.ces.ncsu.edu
2. We create a Wordpress user named wolfpack, just as you normally would. This creates an entry in wp_users
We use our campus authentication to supersede the native Wordpress login
But you could just as easily use OAuth, LDAP, htaccess, etc.
You could argue, this adds a layer of security.
But really, we're just using it so we can map multiple real users, real people and their logins to a single wordpress user.
3. We create an access table in the Wordpress database that will map organizational userIDs to a particular Wordpress username in the wp_users table.i.e. an email address, eXtensionID, unityID
user_id wp_user_login access_level
[email protected] wolfpack editor
[email protected] sweetpotatoes editor
[email protected] wolfpack admin
Having multiple folks sign in under the wordpress user ‘wolfpack’ makes author
attribution messy.
Use wp_postmeta table
4. Create another custom table with some meta data about each of your sites.
You can choose to leverage Wordpress' wp_usermeta table instead
Use native Wordpress functions (hooks, actions, filters)
● get_post_meta()● get_author_meta()● get_posts($args)● get_usermeta()
Or write your own ...● __get_site_type()● __get_site_name()● __get_author_ldap()
portal
county
county
if($siteType == ‘portal’){
get_full_banner();
}elseif($siteType == ‘county’){
get_color_block();get_small_banner();
}
1 theme, and a few small tweaks
the codethe visual
We put every WordPress author on an island
Use Wordpress' built-in filters and actions behind the scenes
● Centralized Google Analytics● Content Sharing● Content QA● Faster Feature Rollouts● Wider, Faster A/B Split Tests● Easier Access Control● One Stop Publishing
BIG Benefits to being under the same umbrella
Link to these slides:go.ncsu.edu/wordpress
How did we do?joind.in/9879
