We’re now waiting for the release of WordPress 3.0. As you may know, the WordPress team is merging WordPress MU and WordPress into one code base. This will eliminate WordPress MU. This means that some of the features we’ve created in WPMultiSite may no longer be needed. How ever since the focus of WordPress MU and WPMultiSite are very different we should be able to focus on the more important aspect of our product.
WPMultiSite was create for people (usually consultants) that are creating many sites (usually for customers) the are each using a different domain name. The main goals are:
- Rapid Deployment
- Reduce Maintenance
- Increase Reliability
- Reduce Costs
You can find out more about how we achieve these goals on our site.
If you’re tired of deleting the sample about page, post and comment setup as part of the WordPress installation then you might be interested in this simple install option.
To start with a clean install just create a file called ‘install.php’ in the wp-content directory and put the following code in it.
<?php
function wp_install_defaults()
{
global $wpdb;
// Default category
$cat_name = $wpdb->escape(__(‘Uncategorized’));
$cat_slug = sanitize_title(_c(‘Uncategorized|Default category slug’));
$wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb-&gt;terms (name, slug, term_group) VALUES (‘$cat_name’, ‘$cat_slug’, ’0′)”);
$wpdb->query(“INSERT INTO $wpdb-&gt;term_taxonomy (term_id, taxonomy, description, parent, count) VALUES (’1′, ‘category’, ”, ’0′, ’1′)”);
}
?>
For those of us using WPMultiSite this means that once add this file then all the future sites built using this wp-content folder will get this feature.
I’m thinking of adding this as an option for WPMultiSite. What do you think?
Another release of WPMultiSite Lite is available. Just use the same URL as you used before to download the new version. This is mostly a bug fix release. Let me know if you have any addition issues.
I just released a new version of WPMultiSite Lite. This is a bug fix release that allows it to be installed on more host configurations.
Also this release allows for longer domain names (the limit has been extended to 256 characters).
If you’ll like be included in the WPMultiSite Lite Beta just fill out this form. The download URL will be sent to you directly. There is no request code beta required for this beta.
http://wpmultisite.com/about/wpms-lite-beta-test-request/
I’m working on a new lite version of WPMultiSite. This version is much easier to use if you are the only person managing sites. No database will be required. It really is very simple to use. I will probably move some of the code I’m working on there over to the full version to make things easier to use there as well. Let me know if you want to be contacted when this version goes into beta.
Here are some things to consider before installing WPMultiSite.
Permalinks
All site using a single installation of WordPress must use the permalinks. Make sure when you create a new site you set the permalink setting.
Site Maps
If you use the ‘Google XML Sitemaps’ plugin, you can manually set the location of the sitemap file in the plugin configuration.
favicon.ico
All sites will use the same favicon for now.
robots.txt
All sites will use the same robots.txt file for now.
We’ve got a new beta release ready (0.5.1). Many of the issues in the previous release have been resolved. We’ve also updated the install doc to reflect a few of the changes. If you need help upgrading let me know.
Remember if you want to use a unique content directory you need to create it first and include the plugin and theme directories.
We’re trying to get the next version (0.5) ready by tomorrow before we’re off to Vegas for WordCamp. So if you’re still waiting on the list or waiting to be added to the list please be patient. We’ll get everyone added to the that has sent us a request by today.
Thanks all
Thing are going well with the beta test and the early results are in. It looks like we put in a bit to much power to start with. Rather than remove the advanced features we’ve just going to hide the advanced options and renamed the section.
Here’s the new version:
Here’s the new version expanded:
The advanced multiple multisite options have not been really documented that well yet so can just let this area unexposed for now. Multiple mulistes is a hard concept to get across and you won’t need that until you have some many site on one install that you start to worry about it or you start getting then hang of all this multisite stuff and start to realize that now you can really start grouping similar sites together to make them even easier to manage. We’ll document and test this feature in the second round.
Thanks so much for participating.
