Chapter 4. Enabling a Multisite Network

The multisite feature allows us to create a network of WordPress sites. This feature is ideal for setting up student blogs and portfolios or creating a network of sites for instructors and teachers. A WordPress network is a group of individual sites on one shared instance of WordPress. With our multisite network, we act as the administrator, creating and controlling the accounts and sites.

In a WordPress network, each user receives his or her own WordPress installation, but no a shared codebase with a limited set of plugins and themes. A WordPress multisite network is different from multiauthor blogs, where multiple users are given access to a single site.

I have personally used WordPress multisite networks as a means of managing student blogs and portfolios. I have found blogs to be an effective way for students to curate and share class resources and links as well as an open space for students to write brief reflections on course content. WordPress...