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WordPress Web Application Development - Second Edition

You're reading from   WordPress Web Application Development - Second Edition Build rapid web applications with cutting-edge technologies using WordPress

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782174394
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Preface 1. WordPress as a Web Application Framework FREE CHAPTER 2. Implementing Membership Roles, Permissions, and Features 3. Planning and Customizing the Core Database 4. Building Blocks of Web Applications 5. Developing Pluggable Modules 6. Customizing the Dashboard for Powerful Backends 7. Adjusting Theme for Amazing Frontends 8. Enhancing the Power of Open Source Libraries and Plugins 9. Listening to Third-party Applications 10. Integrating and Finalizing the Portfolio Management Application 11. Supplementary Modules for Web Development A. Configurations, Tools, and Resources Index

Introduction to multisite


WordPress provides a module called multisite where you can create multiple networks of WordPress sites using a single installation. All the sites in the network share the same files. These sites can be installed as sub folders of the main site or sub domains. We need to know how WordPress multisite is used and how it can support web application development.

Let's identify the common usages of WordPress multisite:

  • It lets users create their own blog, website, or product selling website within your site. This is a widely used technique where you let your users purchase a membership to manage their site within your network.

  • It manages multiple products. WordPress theme and plugin developers use this technique to create demo sites for their plugins and themes using a single installation.

  • It manages the branches of a large scale organization. Many large organizations have branches in multiple countries. So, multisite allows them to manage a separate site for each country...

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