Managing Your WordPress Multisites

If you’d like to add new sites to your network, go to Super Admin >> Create a New Site

Enter the URL for your new blog in the Site Address field and choose a Site Title and Admin Email. Click Add Site to finish the creation. You should then be able to see the new site added to the existing default install:

Click on Visit and you’ll be able to see your new site:

Back in your main site’s admin area you can click on Edit to change the settings for your sub-site:

If you click on Super Admin >> Users you’ll see a list of all your users on the whole network. This is different from the normal Users tab which shows only users on this site:

You can provide plugins for people to use on the whole network by installing them as per normal. The only thing you need to do differently is go to Super Admin >> Options and check the Plugins box right at the very bottom of the page.

Then go to your Plugins tab and click “Network Activate” for any plugins you want to provide for the network:

You can provide themes for people to use on the whole network by installing them as per normal. The only thing you need to do differently is go to Super Admin >> Themes and check Yes for the themes you want to provide for the network:

Go to Super Admin >> Registration Settings and you can choose whether or not people can set up their own sites. People can sign-up by visting /wp-signup.php on your site. One easy to provide this link is by adding it to a menu:

When people click on the link they’ll see a page like the one below. They can enter their name and email address:

After they click Next they’ll be asked to give a URL and title for their site. To finish, they click Signup.

That’s it. They now have a new blog. All that’s left to do is login and start blogging. As far as they are concerned, they’ll have a full WordPress site with all the normal features. As far as you’re concerned, you’ll be able to manage their site from your default installation:

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