1. Domain Mapping with WordPress 3.0 Presented by Andrea RennickWordCamp Chicago June 5 th2010

2. Who am I?

@andrea_r on twitter

andrea_r on the WordPressMU support forum

http://wpmututorials.com

Cape-wearing Super Admin on other sites & networks

3. Sponsored by My mom http://atypicalife.net/mam/ Thanks Mom. 4. Overview

How to enable the network

Multiple sites

DNS magic

The point: Running multiple WordPress blogs/sites from one installon one server. 5. Enable the Network

Menu hidden

Add line to config to show it:

• define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

• Visit Tools -> Network

• Follow steps

http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network 6. 7. 8. Network Gotchas

Wildcard subdomain support from webhost

Subfolder option disabled if your blog is more than a month old

• Can workaround

• Inserts /blog/ in the permalink of main site

• Can also be disabled

9. Create our second site

Visit Super Admin -> Sites

Add a Site.

Yes, it really is that easy.

• Make sure it works first.

Sample site: Mommieblogs.com see: sillyandrea.mommieblogs.com 10. 11. The Magic Plugin

WordPress MU Domain Mapping

• http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/

Can install via backend, but you will have to move files

Mu-plugins or network activate?

sunrise.php to /wp-content/ define( 'SUNRISE', 'on' ); in wp-config 12. Super Admin settings

Find your IP address

Can use a CNAME instead

Domain options

• Remote login

• Permanent redirect

• User domain page

• Redirect admin

13. 14. Map the Domain to the Site

Visit your second site

Tools Domain Mapping

Fill in the options & save

sillyandrea.mommieblogs.com sillyandrea.com 15. 16. 17. Tell the Server

Park the domain in Cpanel

• What if it's an add-on domain?

18. 19. Tell the Server II

Geek part: add it to the vhost entry

..... DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mommieblogs ServerName mommieblogs.comServerAlias*.mommieblogs.com sillyandrea.com ..... 20. Mapping in Volume

VPS or dedicated

Access to Apache configs or really good support team

21. Named wildcard host NamedVirtualHost 96.30.51.123 ..... DocumentRoot /your/wp/install ServerName mommieblogs.com .... 22. DNS time

A record

IP address

wait

23. 24. 25. Live Examples

http://ronandandrea.com

http://wpmututorials.com

http://freebpthemes.com

That's it! 26. Multiple Networks

atypicalife.net on same install as previous examples

Has member sites

• /mam/

• /recipes/

• /san/

• /sarah/

27. Our Plugin

Domain Mapping

Multiple Networks

Awesome documentation included

Very affordable

http://wpmututorials.com/simple-multi-site-plugin-e-book/ 28. Thanks!

Follow me on twitter @andrea_r

More tutorials at:

• http://wpmututorials.com