Rob Howard rocked the boat last week in calling for the deprecation of WordPress multisite in the latest MasterWP newsletter. He argued that “the brave and noble add-on is no longer necessary or valuable to developers.” The responses via Twitter were swift and in disagreement. Before WordPress 3.0, multisite was an entirely separate system called…
WordPress core committer John Blackbourn has released a new plugin called Network Media Library that provides a shared media library across all sites on a WordPress multisite network. Blackbourn is an engineer at Human Made and the plugin is one he created for a client by forking Frank Bültge and Dominik Schilling’s Multisite Global Media…
Towards the end of 2013, WordPress lead developer Andrew Nacin outlined a potential roadmap for multisite that would address a number of long-standing questions regarding network setup and organization. When multisite, formerly known as WPMU, was first introduced, building large blogging networks was the primary use case. Over the years, the uses for multisite have…
If you’re managing a multisite network where you’ve created a long list of sites, the “My Sites” menu in the admin bar can get so lengthy that it becomes difficult to navigate. 10up engineer Kailey Lampert designed an elegant solution to this problem. The My Sites Search plugin does exactly what it says on the…
On a WordPress multisite network each blog has its own categories, tags and custom taxonomies. Keeping taxonomies separate is the default setup, but it is possible to have all networked blogs share the same terms. The new Multisite Global Terms plugin allows sites to share global categories, tags and custom taxonomies across a multisite network.…
WordPress core contributors are aiming to address an issue with multisite new user emails in the upcoming 4.0 release. Two weeks ago, Daniel Bachhuber opened a ticket proposing that WordPress instruct users to change their passwords when sending new account emails. When a user is added to a multisite network and has activated his account,…
Managed WordPress hosts are popping up all over the web. The platform is now so widely used that mammoth hosting providers such as GoDaddy and MediaTemple have added specialized hosting packages dedicated to WordPress customers. WordPress hosting providers that cater to a specific niche are the latest trend. CampusPress is a newly branded managed host…
If you’ve ever tried to update a large WordPress multisite network, then you’ve undoubtedly experienced the frustration of watching that spinning indicator hang once it’s found a domain that can’t be reached. This is quite common in the case of domain mapping. A ticket exists for fixing this issue in WordPress, but in the meantime…
German WordPress developer Frank Bültge has spent many long hours creating a plugin that encapsulates more than a dozen enhancements often requested by multisite super admins. His Multisite Enhancements plugin has been hosted on github for some time, which made it rather obscure. WordPress plugins hosted on github are often very difficult to find unless…