Effectively manage and Scale WordPress Multisite and

Importance of Insights

Neel Shah@neelshah91

New York University

Harshit Sanghvi@harshit_ps

ContentsWP at NYU

Plugin/Theme Update Process

Mirroring Production to Dev/QA

Dynamic Site Creation Process

Importance of Insights

https://wp.nyu.edu

Web Publishing - Stats5227 Sites

17880 Users

65 Plugins

52 Themes

Site Type:

52% Teaching & Learning

39% Personal

9% Administrative

https://wp.nyu.edu

Web Publishing - StackAWS EC2 Instance

Amazon Aurora DB

Redis Cache

PHP 7

NGINX Server

Shibboleth Single Sign On

Selecting Hosting ProviderYour Current Team

Level of Support

Level of Access

Flexibility

Support for Single Sign On

Production and Dev Resource Sharing

Cost

Plugin/ Theme Update Process

BenefitsAvoid unwanted code in Production

Shorter release cycles

ToolsCAC tools for wp-cli

(https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/wp-cli-cac)

Behat for unit tests

Jenkins CI

Plugin/ Theme Update Process

Mirroring Production to Dev/ QA

Mirroring Production to Dev/ QABenefits

Fully mirrored Dev/QA environment

Backup db for large multisite

Migrate from one hosting provider to another

ToolsMirror_db (https://github.com/neelakansha85/mirror_db)

Jenkins CI

New Site Creation Process - wp-signup.php

SELECT TYPE

Dynamic Site Creation Process

CHOOSE WHAT YOU NEED

Essential Settings

MAKE IT PRETTY

Themes

SELECT PLUGINS

Features

YAY!

Finish

BenefitsEnhancing current wp-signup page

ToolsSite Setup Wizard

(https://wordpress.org/plugins/site-setup-wizard)

Dynamic Site Creation Process

Importance of Insights into Multisite

Some unanswered questionsHow many sites are being created and when?

What is the most popular theme or a plugin among all the sites?

Are all my plugins compatible with latest WordPress version?

Are any of my 10000s sites getting spammed?

Is some user misbehaving within my multisite environment which affect overall network performance?

How are my users connected to each other through different sites?

WP Network StatsDeveloped for New York University

Can answer all of the above questions and many more

Features - Background processing for generating new statistics for the network. It allows you to

safely generate stats without compromising the performance of your large multisite network.

Ability to fine tune batch processing settings.

Protected network admin settings.

Notification when the stats are available.

Analytics dashboard using D3 charts to gain insights into some of the generated data.

Generates set of CSV files corresponding to different types of stats.

You can selectively generate the stats you need - Sites Stats, Plugins Stats, Themes Stats or Users Stats.

Multidimensional DetectiveFind sites with >200 users, >20 active plugins, >1000 posts, >5000

comments or >1000 attachments

Multidimensional DetectiveFind sites with >200 users, >20 active plugins, >1000 posts, >5000

comments or >1000 attachments

Some Insights from NYU’s WordPress service

Sites Created By Date vs. Time of Day

Site Privacy, Active Theme, DB Version

Sites Registered Over Time

Users Registered between two dates

Users Interconnection

Use casesSend targeted communication emails. e.g.,

To all the admins of sites which has more than 1000 attachments about potential violation of terms of use.

To site admin who is allowing comments from public about potential spam issues.

To all the users who use a specific plugin/theme about upcoming changes to that plugin/theme.

Decide migration strategies when replacing/retiring a plugin/theme based on its usage.

What to do when a plugin/theme is found incompatible with latest WordPress release

Archive/delete sites or content created by alumni.

Thank You

Harshit Sanghvi@harshit_ps

Neel Shah@neelshah91

Questions?