How To Clean Up Unused Plugins in WordPress Multisite

by Sarah Gooding May 14^th, 2013 1 Response

Do you ever find yourself staring at a long list of installed plugins, wondering which ones are safe to delete? WordPress multisite networks can bulk up on plugins fairly quickly. Every now and then a good old-fashioned spring cleaning is in order.

Checking through each site on your network to see what plugins are in use is simply not an option. The task is much too tedious for a busy site admin like yourself. That’s where Plugin Activation Status saves the day. It essentially performs a plugin audit so that you can get rid of any extra baggage.

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

by Gwyneth Llewelyn May 9^th, 2013 36 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?

Multisite, Multisite Tutorials, WordPress Tutorials

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.

BuddyPress, Multisite, Plugins & Theme Tutorials

How To Display BuddyPress Profile Data On WordPress Multisite Blogs

by Sarah Gooding April 25^th, 2013 2 Responses

Displaying BuddyPress profile data outside of the main BuddyPress components is a little trickier than you might imagine. However, this is a common request, especially since many of our readers manage multisite networks. So for this quick tip we’re going to examine a few examples of displaying BuddyPress profile data on multisite blogs.

Basic Example of Displaying BP Profile Info on a Multisite Blog

Multisite, Multisite Development, Multisite Tutorials

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

by Joe Foley April 17^th, 2013 58 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?

Multisite, Multisite Tutorials, Tutorials

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

Multisite, Multisite Development, Multisite Plugins, Multisite Tutorials

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.

Multisite, Multisite Development, Multisite Tutorials

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

Multisite, Multisite Tutorials

Automatically Add Users to Sites Across a WordPress Multisite Network

by Sarah Gooding October 11^th, 2012 5 Responses

When navigating a WordPress multisite network, it’s important to note that users of one site are not automatically made users of other sites across the network. Ordinarily, users have to complete the regular registration process with each site they want to join.

Multisite, Multisite Tutorials

How to Change the Allowed File Upload Types in WordPress Multisite

by Sarah Gooding October 8^th, 2012 1 Response

WordPress multisite has some restrictions for what types of files users can upload on the network. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to make changes to the allowed file types without having to add a plugin or change any code.

This particular network admin setting is a few clicks deep. You can find it under:

Dashboard >> Network Admin >> Settings >> Network Settings

Scroll down to Upload Settings and add or remove file types from the “Upload file types” field.