Multisite

Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2014

Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren't just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting. I heard about…

How to deactivate WordPress Multisite properly

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2014

HostingWordPress News

WordPress Multisite is a great feature of WordPress. But it's not always the right feature.

Share sidebars in WordPress Multisite with transients

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2013

Development

Corey Collins goes in depth on the WebDevStudios blog to offer a solution to a problem experienced by many Multisite users: for sharing sidebars across a Multisite instance. The solution uses transients to store everything and a small AJAX function…

Potential roadmap for WordPress Multisite

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

If you use WordPress Multisite or have interest in it, you'll want to read Andrew Nacin's potential roadmap for the future of the project. It's very promising, and he touches on many of the pain points for the current use…

Create a WordPress VIP simulated dev environment, quickly

Brian Krogsgard

October 9, 2013

DevelopmentHosting

If you want to create a development environment to mimic the WordPress VIP hosting platform, the VIP team has you covered. VIP Quickstart is a new tool, available on Github, that helps you set up everything easily. According to the…

WordPress Multisite versus “Minisite”

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

I work a decent amount with Multisite. Not a ton, but maybe on about 10% of the websites I build. There's sometimes confusion at work as to what's a good use for Multisite and what is not. I also see…

WordPress theme for presentation slides

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2013

WordPress News

Otto Wood has created an initial version of a WordPress theme intended for use as presentation slides. It's called Slides. Hosting slides on the web makes complete sense, and making slide templates WordPress themes is just as logical. I can…

WordPress.org theme demos leave a lot to be desired

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress.org has made incredible strides the last few years on improving the quality of the themes in the repository. Every theme goes through a stringent approval process, thanks to the WordPress Theme Review Team. But discovery can still be challenging on WordPress.org.

PressBooks open sourced

Brian Krogsgard

March 8, 2013

WordPress News

PressBooks, the plugin for WordPress Multisite to make ebooks in various formats, has officially been open sourced. This is really great news. It lowers the barrier to entry for authors even more.

Andrea Rennick Code Poet interview

Brian Krogsgard

March 7, 2013

WordPress News

Andrea Rennick, a WordPress multisite and support forum legend, has a nice interview on Code Poet today. Check it out to learn about her WordPress story, her job at Copyblogger, communities, and quilting.

Are WordPress.com’s verticals falling short?

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

WordPress News

Earlier today, I tweeted (big news, right?) that the WordPress.com verticals that have been launching left and right seem like little more than SEO plays on the landing pages. Well, James Farmer, founder of Edublogs - a huge WordPress Multisite…