1. Domain Mapping with WordPress 3.0 Presented by Andrea RennickWordCamp Montreal August 29 th2010

2. Who am I?

@andrea_r on twitter

andrea_r on the WordPress support forum

http://wpmututorials.com

http://ronandandrea.com

3. Overview

How to enable the network

Multiple sites

DNS magic

The point: Running multiple WordPress blogs/sites from one installon one server. 4. 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 5. 6. 7. 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

8. 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 9. 10. 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 11. Super Admin settings

Find your IP address

Can use a CNAME instead

Domain options

• Remote login

• Permanent redirect

• User domain page

• Redirect admin

12. 13. Map the Domain to the Site

Visit your second site

Tools Domain Mapping

Fill in the options & save

sillyandrea.mommieblogs.com sillyandrea.com 14. 15. 16. Tell the Server

Park the domain in Cpanel

• What if it's an add-on domain?

17. 18. Tell the Server II

Geek part: add it to the vhost entry

..... DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mommieblogs ServerName mommieblogs.comServerAlias*.mommieblogs.com sillyandrea.com ..... 19. DNS time

A record

IP address

wait

20. 21. 22. 23. Live Examples

http://ronandandrea.com

http://wpmututorials.com

http://freebpthemes.com

and our sillyandrea.com test.

That's it! 24. Multiple Networks

atypicalife.net on same install as previous examples

Has member sites

• /mam/

• /recipes/

• /san/

• /sarah/

25. Thanks!

Follow me on twitter @andrea_r

More tutorials at:

• http://wpmututorials.com