July 2012 Handout: WordPress Multisite Deep Dive

Things change rapidly in the WordPress world. The content in this post is more than a year old and may no longer represent best practices.

WordPress.org Forums: Multisite You will find Mika Epstein (@Ipstenu) here quite often, and she is really helpful about the scary stuff like .htaccess rules for Multisite, which are really weird.
Ask the experts: Ron Rennick (@WPMUguru) and Andrea Rennick (@andrea_r). They have a website called WordPress Must-Use Tutorials and another for their WP Ebooks and very affordable premium plugins for Multisite (see below). They are seriously awesome people.

Sallie’s collection of Multi-site/WPMU plugins on Delicious
24 Massively Useful Plugins for WordPress Multisite (WPMU.org)
20 Essential Plugins for WordPress Multisite (WPMU.org)
WordPress MU Domain Mapping
Networkwide Menu
ThreeWP Broadcast (Post to multiple sites simultaneously)
Multisite User Management (Add users to multiple sites simultaneously)
Sitewide Comment Control (What it sounds like)
Network Plugin Auditor (Tells you which plugins are used on which sites)
Moderate New Blogs (To prevent splogs on your network)
More Privacy Options (Hide a site from non-members)
Featured Posts (Feature posts from sub-sites on your main site)
WordPress MU Sitewide Tag Pages (Show a tag cloud of posts from your sub-sites on the main site, the way WordPress.com does)
Blog Copier (Create new sub-sites by copying old ones)
Multisite Global Search (search all sites on the network at once)
WordPress Multi-Blog Queries (by Dagan Henderson, on GitHub)

WordPress Multisite 101 by Andrea Rennick & Mika Epstein
WordPress Multisite 110 by Mika Epstein
WP Ebooks The whole collection by Ron & Andrea Rennick, including Network Home Pages and SharDB Installation Guide. Many include plugins.

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