Longren - WordPress multisite administration: a concise guide to set up, manage, and customize your blog network using WordPress multisite

Tyler L. Longren grew up in Central Iowa and continues to reside and make a living there. He's worked for various employers, from newspapers and commercial kitchens to startups and well-established Internet companies.

Tyler has been involved in technology since he was very young and remembers watching his father write software from as early as 2 years old. Tyler was fortunate to attend a primary school where he was able to explore his interests more freely than might have been possible elsewhere.

Since 1999, Tyler has been especially interested in web development. He's worked on all types of websites, websites for friends, local companies, and high-traffic niche websites. He's been using WordPress since 2005, back when WordPress required PHP4 and would not work with PHP5. He's also been an avid blogger since 2002 and started with some custom PHP and an old HP Vectra XW machine running Slackware Linux out of his home, with a dedicated phone line for the modem.

I would like to thank my family for their support, especially my wife Kayla and our daughter, Sydney, who insists on staying out catching lightning bugs until 10 p.m. every night.

David Kryzaniak is a programming ninja at Blue Door Consulting in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He holds a BS in Information Science from UW Green Bay; while he's primarily a PHP developer, he tends to do a lot of frontend (CSS, jQuery, responsive web design) work too. He enjoys playing with electronics, hacking into things he shouldn't, and doing a little (ok a lot of) WordPress development. His super-awesome-way-cool-can't-miss-it blog is http://dave.kz.

Mario Peshev is a WordPress engineer and open source consultant. He is the lead tech guy at DevriX, a small consulting agency focusing on WordPress development and architecture, consulting and migrating businesses to open source platforms.

Mario has been working in the IT field for the past 13 years. He is certified in Java programming and Secure Web engineering and experienced in Java, PHP, Python, and JavaScript development. He is also a part-time trainer with 7 years of training experience and has taught dozens of technical classes in technical schools and universities and organizations and companies such as Saudi Aramco, The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), VMware, Software AG, and Melexis Microelectronic Systems. His passion for open source is contagious.

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Preface

Surely you're familiar with WordPress.com, the ultra popular blogging network. Most people don't realize that the software behind WordPress is available for anyone to use, allowing anyone to create a blog network similar to WordPress.com.

WordPress multisite is at the core of WordPress.com and comes as part of the standard self-hosted WordPress download from WordPress.org. We can use WordPress multisite for a number of purposes, from setting up a public blog network by consolidating all of your single site WordPress installations into a multisite network.

WordPress multisite administration will take you through everything you need to know about WordPress multisite. You'll need to have a little experience with single site WordPress installations, but that's it. We cover topics like activating multisite from a single site installation, setting up a custom author-listing directory, and protecting your multisite network.

What this book covers

, Getting Started with WordPress Multisite , will cover activating WordPress multisite from a single-site installation, and other basic tasks.

, Customization , will guide you in installing and configuring themes and plugins. We'll also go over how to create a custom author-listing directory.

, User Management and Permissions , will help you understand what the Super Administrator is and everything it can do. We'll also touch on individual site management and go over other user roles and permissions.

, Protecting Your Multisite Network , will focus on the best practices for keeping your multisite installation secure; from plugins to password protection with the .htaccess files.

, Migrating Multiple WordPress Blogs to a Multisite Network