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Multi-site plugin

Answer – Here you go, this is our much improved, much more functional and fully supported mulit-site plugin – enjoy!

Does the multi-site plugin still exist? I cannot find it :slight_frown:

If it is not supported any longer, are there any other well defined paths to creating multiple sites for a WordPress MU install?

I see the Domain mapping plugin that may meet our needs.

Thanks,

Jim

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:42:14
  • jimfreeby
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    In particular, I am referring to a plugin that will allow the creation of multiple sites (like sites in the wp_sites table). If I understand things properly, each site can have it’s own domain and blogs of each site, can define sub domains for that base domain.

    Our end goal is to host 1000s of blogs with many different domains and subdomains.

    Additionally, we will support many different customers (each a different company), where each customer will have many users and many blogs.

    Company A may have 100 blogs and 100 users and Company B may have 50 blogs and 50 users. Generally, there will be a one to one relationship between a blog and a user. We don’t want to mix content between Company A and Company B. For example, is someone if viewing a blog for Company A and they search in the blog for entries with the category “California”, then we do not want posts for company B to be returned. We may (not 100% sure) want to find all posts for Company A blogs, where the Category is “California”

    Thanks,

    Jim

  • Aaron
    • Ex Staff

    It’s been possible for a long time. There are a few multi-site plugins, one here on the free side (which I think the link sarah gave is a newer forked version of that) and one sold by wpmututorials.com.

    The thing to know though is that while you can set it up without too much trouble, it will take a lot of custom dev work to work how you want. Most WPMU plugins are not site aware, and will not division content per site.

    For example if you use supporter you can set a different price for each site, but if you use the widget to display supporters it will list those from other sites. Also the stats will be for all sites. Or using our post indexer and associated plugins should work as I think it’s one that is site aware.

    We run a multisite setup for blogs.mu but that is highly customized and hacked. Rather than deal with the hassle we do separate installs for edublogs campus.

  • Mason
    • DEV MAN’s Sidekick

    Let me just add that I have personally used the wpmututorials service and support for their plugins (though not the multi-site plugin specifically) and they do a fantastic job (as does wpmu dev) of providing support and information above and beyond the call of duty. $40 for 3 months or $100/year. Money well spent if you’re looking for help walking through this stuff.

    Not at all knocking the guys here. I’m (obviously) a happy customer of both!