Presentation from the WordPress Melbourne meetup on May 11, 2011. This presentation was based on an earlier post http://bit.ly/hMsFKg --- Peter Wilson will be showing us how to use WordPress Multisite to host your client websites. This reduces maintenance time because upgrading all of your client sites becomes almost as easy as upgrading it for one. WordPress multisite was a popular topic at our March meetup, so come along and learn all about WordPress Multisite.

1. Hosting Client Websites
on a WordPress Multisite Network

4. Wildcard domain DNS - Linode

5. Wildcard domain DNS - (mt)

6. Wildcard Domain - Apache
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.2>
DocumentRoot /www/example.com
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com
</VirtualHost>

8. define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

16. Settings
• Allow new registrations: No (default)
• Site admins can add new users: no
• Media upload buttons: All types
• Upload space: unlimited
• Upload file types: images, audio, video, pdf (defualt)
• Max file size: 20,480kb (20Mb)
• Plugins menu: disabled

26. flickr.com/donkeyhotey

27. bigredtin.com/framework

28. flickr.com/skrubu

29. Soupgiant.com
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