I have approximately 20 simple Wordpress sites, but each, on a different host company.
That's because I wanted the sites to be completely separated (with different ip and all).
My question is:
Is there a paid service (maybe on the cloud?) that give me the ability to manage multiple Wordpress sites that each of them on a different hosts?
If you wanted separate IP, that's probably for marketing and SEO purposes. In that case you should check out https://www.seosamba.com/ for the free and premium WP plugins. You can optimize any number of WordPress websites from a single interface.
https://managewp.com/ have a look I think it one of the few that can manage sites on separate servers.
Another one that I've been using is InfiniteWP (http://infinitewp.com/). They even offer a free version if you don't need all the features.
As far as I'm aware, they only offer a self-hosted solution though.
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I work for a government organization and we are trying to move to Drupal. My job right now is to figure out the best way to limit access to content based on a user and their roles.
The big issue I have not yet figured out is this:
If we want to have many different sites for many different departments each with their own users. Can we limit access to content and taxonomy terms (and really anything at all that one department should or should not see) all on the same site? In my research it seems like this is possible but it involves the creation of many, many different content types and roles and basically making one massive Drupal site.
Is this the best way to go? Is it better to have one site with many nodes or many sites? If many sites is the way to go will they all still have the same domain? (ie: www.government.com/parks , www.government.com/police, etc...)
If anyone has some insight or resources about this issue I would be very appreciative. I am willing to buy books or other resources (within reason) if they are worthwhile resources.
You can go with having different subdomains for different departments. Domain Access module would be helpful in that case. In this case, the code base would be same for all subdomains (as there would be only one drupal installation) but the users are considered different. This is because each domain is given a unique domain id and that differentiates.
Video on Domain Access Module
Go through the project page of the module and you can get more details. Hope this helps you.
I'm being tasked at my company to work out a plan to handle 50 new clients that we're about to bring in. Each client is directly related and under an "umbrella" company that owns them all. All 50 sites will be pretty similar, each is for a different company so the themes may vary across them all.
We're planning to give them 10 themes to pick from for all 50 sites. So some of them will be very similar, some won't be at all.
Is Wordpress the best path? I'm very familiar with Wordpress. I've worked with Expression Engine before but am not as savvy as I am with Wordpress and I understand Expression Engine also has a multi site functionality.
So my question, is Wordpress Multi Site the best path for this? What would you do in my situation?
Also, if we wanted to create a user that has access to 10 of the 50 sites, is that possible? We'll need to narrow permissions.
Also, each site will need its own domain name. Is that possible?
Thanks guys!
Yes, Multisite can handle this easily.
To run Mapped Domains, using the MU Domain Mapping plugin cited by #Calle, you need to set up the network as sub-domains (opposed to a directories set up). And the mapped domains must be set as Parked Domains pointing to the directory of the WordPress Multisite installation.
Multisite user management can be a little tricky.
If some site of the network has really special requirements for its user's management, maybe you'll have a hard time.
All users of the network are given Subscriber status in all sites (this can be masked). You can easily assign one user as Administrator of 10 sites, give Super Admin access to others, use a network role management, etc.
You can have a couple of parent themes with the corporate identity and create child themes to accomodate specific needs.
Useful info:
Multisite 101, introduction to MS by one of its wizards, don't forget the tip jar if it's useful to you ;)
This ebook strives to pull it all together, explain you what skills you need to get started, and move you to the next step: running your own Network. Think of it as a basic tutorial in running your own Multisite.
Multisite Rationale, real case study for implementation of a MS Network, if you can find a document like this for Expression Engine, then you can make your choice pretty fast.
Wordpress Multisite can either be path based (www.domain.com/site1, www.domain.com/site2), or domain-based (www.site1.domain.com, www.site2.domain.com). I believe each of these sites have separate users; I'm not sure about your question about setting up a user that only has access to a certain number of the sites, but you can set up a "master user" that has access to all the sites on the network. If you use a domain based network for MS, you can then go into each of your domains you have bought for your 50 sites and forward them using DNS/.htaccess to the individual Wordpress Multisites.
I hope that makes sense :)
I have an awkward question, it is possible to use one admin panel for multisite drupal instalation?
For example:
I have one drupal installation, and 5 sites running on it, so I want to create or modify nodes, blocks, etc. in one place. all sites are similar in structure
I never done multisites before, so if you have any ideas, I will love to hear it
Thanks in advance!
No, it is impossible.
Multisites are completelly different sites, using different databases, but sharing the source code. Then you can't share content or configuration.
If you want to create sites for diferent domains, but sharing users, contents and configurations, you should use the Domain Access approach instead of multisites.
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Is it possible to share blogroll links between different Wordpress Multi Network sites? I would like to link all sites to eachother (about 15) in a Network widget/menu on the right. All are pretty much in same niche.
I would not mind being able to manage some content as a Users database and Blogroll links centrally, I have been unable to find out how to do this.
It seems unique tables were generated per site, which makes me doubt if this is possible.
How can I get pretty statistics per subdomain? I don't want to create 15 sites in Analytics or Piwik, if this is no necessary.
Any tips for running Wordpress in an Networked environment are welcome.
There are a number of (unfortunately) premium plugins that will do as you ask:
Sitewide blogroll links
is purely a blogroll that can be centrally published. For something a bit more specific to the network, look into:
WP Social Blogroll
That one takes a little bit of doing to configure it, but it does work in Network mode.
For stats, you don't have a lot of good choices. I would tend to stick with Google Analytics, run a single master UA code and just use filters to shard off each of the network sites for reporting purposes. Depending on how your network is configured, there is (again, unfortunately) another premium plugin that specifically supports WordPress Network mode. If you are running it in sub-domains, that plugin should automatically track by sub-domain.
I've been adding quite a few blogs to sites and I'm wondering if it's better to add blogging software on the site or use an external blogging service. The major reason I can think of adding a blog to site is if you want to customize it later on (other than look) such as more integration with the site. If I put it on the site, I'll probably use WordPress as I'm familiar with it.
Is there any major advantage to one method or the other?
I would go with putting the blog on your website itself. This will help with a number of things:
Transparency: Your users will feel as if they are on the same website, because they in fact are. Your blog will become simply an extension to your website. On the other hand, a blogging service will most likely appear as though you are going to a completely different website.
Integration: You are able to integrate everything on your website with your blog. This includes any existing user bases, or future ones. Also, the look of your blog can match your website perfectly, much more so than with a blogging service.
Customization: You get 100% control over every single feature of your blog. If you want some new crazy feature, you can program it. Blogging services are typically much more closed than this.
The downsides will be that you have to maintain it, and any features that you want you have to put in yourself.
One of the advantages of having blog on your site is that all the content will belong to your site, which is good for search engine since it will increase your site visibility through SERP. But you will have the price to pay: installation and maintenance.
It's not cut and dried:
(Assuming this is for clients) do you have an ongoing relationship with the client and time scheduled for upgrades? Most blog software needs at least some upgrading or security patching from time to time.
Are you relying on some sort of social media network effects from these blogs? If so, you may get better mileage from a hosted product as they often promote related sites within their networks (e.g. Wordpress has the "Possibly related posts" feature).
As Brian said, integration could be an issue if you have other areas of your site that rely on logins. In that case, probably better to host it yourself.