One Installation Shall Rule Them All!
Name: Stuart Hertzog
Company: StuArt Communications
Session focus: How to set up WordPress as a Multisite and the advantages this configuration offers.
Secondary focus: This live session also seeks to answer the question as to whether setup and blog management can done using only an iPad and an Internet connection.
Running more than one WordPress installation? Tired of updating them one at a time? WordPress now has multisite capability, which means that many bogs can be hosted under under one installation. Users are shared across the multi-blogs—your own wordpress.com.
Against all advice, this will be a live demonstration of how to set up WordPress 3.3 in multisite mode, using subdirectories (not subdomains), with nothing else than an iPad and an Internet connection.
The session will flow as follows:
- Downloading the latest version of WordPress
- Uploading to the home directory on a Web hosting service
- The famous Five-Minute WordPress Installation
- Making it multisite by:
- adding the multisite directive
- editing the .htacess file
- Setting up your main (root) blog
- Adding other blogs to the multisite
- Importing data from existing blogs
- See it working on a multi-blog site
- Questions about installation
We will then move into an open discussion of:
- Uses of multisite setups
- Managing users
- Other issues
Session link: Setting up a WordPress Multisite
Blog link: stuzog.com
Target Audience: Intermediate
Target Audience: Experienced Bloggers, technically-inclined