WordPress Multisite with Nginx – How to set it all up and enjoy the blazing fast consequences

by Gwyneth Llewelyn May 9^th, 2013 30 Responses

Recently, due to the many attacks launched on the internet, especially the botnet DDoS attacking WordPress hosts, I was forced to move some of my sites to a shared server — a virtual machine — with little memory and just a slice of one CPU core.

This required rethinking the whole strategy of hosting them: instead of having huge server with almost unlimited memory, disk space, many CPU cores, and infinite resources, I had to somehow extract the same amount of performance out of this tiny virtual server. How?

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How To Redirect Nonexistent Blogs in WordPress Multisite

by Sarah Gooding May 6^th, 2013 2 Responses

On a very active WordPress multisite network, blogs can come and go. Perhaps a user hasn’t renewed his membership or simply decided to delete his blog. Other sites may still be linking to that nonexistent blog. The default behavior of WordPress is to direct you to a 404 error page when you try to visit a nonexistent blog. Unless you’ve taken great care to make your 404 error page useful and engaging, the visitor has probably reached a dead end.

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How to Build a Web Hosting or Design Business with WordPress Multisite

by Joe Foley April 17^th, 2013 57 Responses

Maybe you’ve had a talent for technology or design nearly all your life. Or maybe you just stumbled onto WordPress one day when looking to set up your own site. And then that one day led to another, and soon you were finding your way around the WordPress backend pretty well.

And then time and time again you started running into people who “wanted a website” but didn’t really have the first clue about how to build one. At some point it probably dawned you – Hey, I could make some money doing this.

Web Host vs. Designer: Which is right for you?

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Importing & Exporting WordPress Sites To and From a Multisite Install

by Joe Foley April 3^rd, 2013 13 Responses

One of the most common questions about using WordPress Multisite is, “Can I import an already existing site into Multisite?”

Similarly, another common question is, “Can I peel off a site on a Multisite install and turn it into a single installation?”

The answer to both of these questions is yes, and we’re going to go through how to do that in this post. Essentially it’s as easy as using the Import/Export functions found under the Tools menu in your WordPress admin area.

What Gets Imported

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WordPress Multisite Guide for Beginners: Unlock the Power of Networks

by Joe Foley March 18^th, 2013 20 Responses

Even the average user can see that WordPress is a powerful and flexible platform. But there’s more to WordPress than meets the eye.

Just below the surface, and somewhat hidden away, there is an even more powerful mode that WordPress possesses – a mode called Multisite.

Enabling this mode allows you to turn a single WordPress installation into a network of sites. Thousands of sites, if you like. Hundreds of thousands. Even millions.

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How To Make a Site Private In WordPress Multisite

by Sarah Gooding January 4^th, 2013 2 Responses

When it comes to the subject of privacy, more options are usually better. Bloggers and members of your site are more likely to trust and recommend your community if they know that they have the option to protect their content.

WordPress Multisite Privacy Settings
By default, WordPress Multisite has two site visibility settings under the Settings >> Privacy menu, both related to search engines:

Allow search engines to index this site
Ask search engines not to index this site

If you want more privacy options, it’s as easy as installing a plugin.

WordPress Multisite Plugin: More Privacy Options

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Cleaning Up WordPress Menu Admin with Screen Options

by Craig Grella December 9^th, 2012 Leave a comment

If your site uses a few custom post types and those custom post types are viewable in the WordPress menu area, your admin panel can get messy quickly; making it hard to find categories or tags you actually want to include in your menus.

Of course you could alter your custom post type code to remove them from the menu item screen, but the easier solution is to use the SCREEN OPTIONS tab inside the menu admin area.

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Using Authorize.net with MarketPress

by Craig Grella November 24^th, 2012 2 Responses

Anyone running an e-commerce site knows the challenge of finding a good merchant gateway; one that provides an efficient checkout process, a quick transfer of funds, and the ability to plug it easily into your website without the need for lengthy code or expensive developers.

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How to Build Multilingual Sites With WordPress

by November 21^st, 2012 6 Responses

One of the biggest challenges facing us as web designers is making our websites fully multilingual. Gone are the days when a localised version of a site would be enough. The web has become a global marketplace where people now hunt for products not available in their domestic market or are looking for cheaper vendors abroad.

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Clone Sites Within A WordPress Multisite Network

by Sarah Gooding November 8^th, 2012 11 Responses

If you manage a WordPress multisite network where you, as the admin, set up each site individually, there’s a new plugin that should save you quite a bit of time. NS Cloner – Site Copier gives multisite admins the ability to easily clone individual sites in your network within a matter of seconds.