2. How, why and where to use
WordPress multisite
Extending WordPress

3. About Me:
Utsav singh @rathour
WordPress Enthusiast, A wannabe entrepreneur
CEO/Founder Code Pixelz Media (@codepixelzmedia)
Blogs at http://codepixelz.com

4. What is Multisite?
 Multiple Website. What else?
 So what is WordPress multisite?
 Obviously Multiple Websites hosted in WordPress.
So what's the catch?
 All of these sites are under single installation of WP

5. The Origin
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6. Ba dum tsss.....
MultiSite

7. Regular v/s Multisite
Regular WordPress
 Single Site
 Each new site needs new installation
 Multiple Installation of Plugins, Themes
 Single set of Users

8. Regular v/s Multisite
WordPress Multisite
• Multiple (Network of) Sites
• Single installation for 'n' number of websites
• Single installation of Plugins, themes for all.
• Multiple set of Users
• Super Administrator to control the Network

9. How it works?

10. When?
1. You have a number of sites running on WordPress
2. You are looking for an easy way to maintain your network of blogs
3. Want to allow people to run their websites/blog on your Installation
4. Save time from installing same plugins, themes over and over again.

11. Where to?
 Personal
Multiple Blogs, websites
 Academic
Different sites focusing on different faculties, courses or
academia.
 Organizational
Team or division based information site or blogs.
Regular Blogging
Network of blogs
 Hosting Sites
Host different sites of client under one roof, easier to
maintain.

12. Where not to?
Just because you can, doesn't mean you have to
 Diffierent Post Type of same niche.
(Try custom post type)
 Users Need To Install Themes/Plugins
 Single Website or blog

13. Who's using this?
 WordPress (WordPress.com)
 BestBuy
 Powersites.net
 New York Times (nytimes.com/blogs)

14. Did you know?
 New York Times has 60+ blogs covering
a wide range of topics
 Powersites.net has 17000+ small business websites
 WordPress.com hosts 57,600,799 (while creating this
presentation) blogs

15. How do I get started?
Open up wp-config.php and add this line
/* Multisite */
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

16. How do I get started?
 Go to Network Setup Menu on Dashboard
 Choose Sub Directory or Sub Domain
 Detailed installation instructions:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

17. Data Handling
 Creates new set of tables for each Site
 New tables added
_blogs, _registration_log, _signups, _site, _sitemeta
 New tables for every new site/blog

18. Should I be using it?
Are you kidding me?
I spent my 10-15 minutes explaining why you should.
Go ahead
Try it.
Build it.
Make wonders.
Conquer the World.

19. That's it, Me Lord!
Thanks for bearing :)

20. Still got questions?