Running a multi-author web directory for articles, posts pages, or other content to your wordPress powered site, means you have different people writing on different topics or offering different perspective on the same topic. WordPress  designers and developers have extended the ability to manage the users and Authors by using specific themes and plugins. For example with ArticleDirectory  you can manage your article site with the power of WordPress and it will let your users submit articles, featured articles and do the Advanced Search and do lot more with this advanced theme but still you need to manage authors and co-authors.

And with Article Manager Module for CMS pro plugin! Article Manager is a CMS pro! premium module designed to enable you to create unique Blogs/Articles/News items.

Today we are compiling some WordPress plugins and explaining some tips and tricks for managing a multi-author web site by using WordPress.

How To Create An Authors Page

If your theme do not come with authors page, you have to create one for that. In this case WordPress will look for an archives.php template or an index.php template and the summary of an authors posts would be display in the same way that monthly and category archives are displaying.

In the following list of tutorials you will find how to Create a Kickass WordPress Authors Page.

How to Create a Kickass WordPress Authors Page

He has written a flexible WordPress page template that will support most themes. You can download the page template and this template lists all authors ordered by author ID. The format of a listing is author name followed by author description and gravatar which is followed by a link to recent post and finally links to social media profiles. The page template supports twitter, facebook, linkedin, digg and flickr.

How To Create An Authors Page

Kevin Muldoon explain step by step how to create and embed it into your theme. If you have multi authors blog, you will get more detail about creating a dedicated authors page for them in order to give them more exposure.

Add More Social Network Handles To Your WordPress Author Profile

The authoer’s page by default only allows you to put just enough information up. For those who utilize their authors.php page, they can add more things like your Twitter and Facebook profile to their author profile and not have to even alter the core of their site. You can even add more than that.

Creating A Simple Author Profile Page In WordPress

You want it styles somewhat similar to your other pages, but you can add the following and style it according to your own template. The code contains the gravatar, 3 different social network handles, and a simple listing of the author’s posts. You can customize it to display excerpts, display excerpts with thumbnails, full posts, and more.

Custom Portfolio Page For Your WordPress Theme

Whether you’re modifying an existing wp theme, or building a new one, this easy to follow tutorial will allow you to add the commonly used Portfolio/Gallery Page to your website. You can also use this same method to create other custom pages & custom categories (category-x.php) to display “WP Custom Post Types” in categories of your choosing.

How to add Author Bios to Single Posts

For the Multi-author sites, WordPress has built-in functionality to display Author Bios to single post, and there are some plugins to help as well. There are three thinks that we need to get to display Author Bios: Detail

How To Display Author Photo In WordPress Post and comments Using Gravatar

Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs and web forums. It is a service by Automattic, and stores “avatar” or profile, images link to an email address on its servers. Once you upload an image on Gravatar server, it will display on any site that supports Gravatar across the Internet. Gravatar is a widely supported service used by many social media sites.

Great Plugins to Manage Multi-Author Blogs Efficiently

Multi-Author Blogs are a popular trend that is spreading rapidly in the blogging industry. It is getting hard to keep up with the fresh content for one man bloggers therefore more and more blogs are now seeking for guest authors, co-authors, and multi-authors.

Tips Tricks To Manage And Handle Multi-Author Blogs

Luckily there are lots of WordPress plugins and resources out there to help owners and administrators to manage co-authors. If you are planning to turn your blog into a multi-author blog, here’s 35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs you might want to check out.

Must have Plugins if You have Multiple Authors in WordPress

Managing a Multi-Author Site

There are many tools available to assist you in managing a multi-author site, as well as making your site more interactive by adding some features, By using these tools on your site you can make more rewarding and satisfying experience not only for you and your readers, but for your authors, as well.

Tools that help authors communicate

By Communicating on a multi-author site, co-authors can share information about their articles and thoughts with each others. Use the following tools to help you manage the flow of communication between everyone involved:

WP Status Notifier

WP Status Notifier will send a notification to given email address(es) of posts pending review by contributors. It can also optionally notify the contributors when their post is accepted or rejected. WP Status Notifier is useful for moderation in blogs with multiple contributors.

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Simple Private Message System

PMS is a very simple php private messaging system, which can be used for communication. It can be integrated into your existing application.
Using PMS to enhance your application, it enables users on your site to send private messages to each other, which will greatly increase the sociability of your site.

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Editorial Calendar

The editorial calendar gives you an overview of your blog and when each post will be published. You can drag and drop to move posts, edit posts right in the calendar, and manage your entire blog.

Try the calendar before you install it. Check out the demo installation at Zack’s WordPress Sandbox.

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Email Users

A plugin for wordpress which allows you to send an email to the registered blog users. Users can send personal emails to each other. Power users can email groups of users and even notify group of users of posts.

All the instructions for installation, the support forums, a FAQ, etc. can be found on the plugin home page.

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WordPress Email Newsletter Plugin

The email newsletter plugin is an advanced bulk emailer designed especially for WordPress 3. It is very easy to use and feature rich. Heaps of features which allow you to quickly send professional newsletters to your existing wordpress user database.

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Subscribe To Author Posts Feed

This plugin adds links after the posts for subscribing to the post author’s posts feed via RSS. So if there are several authors in the blog, but a visitor wishes to subscribe just an author posts feed, this plugin gives that possibility to do it.

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Notification messages

jNotice is the plugin for you, if you like to use some nifty popup’s on your websites or applications. This plugin is very customizable because you can select a div that you want to use as popup. In this div you can place whatever content you want.

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WPD subscription add-on

This WPD subscription add-on is for you If you wish to run a premium membership on your blog. You can run unlimited types of subscriptions (silver, gold, sponsors,donators, beta tester,….) and display specific content to them.

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ku2d – Keep up to date

KU2D allows you to offer a simple way to inform your clients (subscribers) about updates of one of your releases. You can use it for events, parties, new product, … too.

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Dashboard Notepad

This dashboard widget provides a simple notepad. The widget settings allow you to choose which roles can edit the notes, and which roles can merely read them. Version 1.30 also adds support for custom roles and integrates with theMembers plugin for role settings.

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Tools to promote author profiles

This is very difficult task to promote your blog, One way to operate a successful multi-author blog involves taking every opportunity to promote your authors and their information as much as possible.
This list give you tools to promote authors bios, links, social network feeds, and more:

WordPress Profile Manager

The WordPress Profile Manager allows you to create custom fields for your users. You can create text fields, text area’s and drop down menu’s with the drag and drop interface within 5 seconds.

Features

• Create custom fields, text area’s and drop down menu’s.
• Beautiful user interface
• On the fly validation with jQuery
• Written in OOP
• Very easy to use
• Drag & Drop interface
• AJAX Based
• Use the native WordPress the_author_meta function to retrieve the custom author profile fields

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List Authors

A widget to display a list of authors in your WordPress blog. Includes widget options to configure the features mentioned below. Completely updated to use the new widget API and is multi-widget enabled. Fully XHTML compliant.

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Profile Pic

This plugin allows authors to add a picture to their profile and helps automate the process of displaying author profiles.

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Author Spotlight (Widget)

To display a custom photograph with the Author’s Profile please install the User Photo. In absence of this plugin the ‘Author Spotlight” widget will fall-back to displaying the Gravatar associated with the user. If your posts have multiple authors you may use the Co-Authors Plus, the widget will display all the author profiles one below another for such posts.

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Author Based Twitter Widget

This plugin will allow all authors to have their own tweets shown on in the widget area of their posts, by adding it to their profiles. That way any multi-author blog can let their bloggers promote their own twitter account and not a joint account.

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User Messenger

User Messenger provides a simple method of integrating a member system into a new or existing site with the ability for users to send messages to one another. The script features a CMS / admin panel to manage users & site settings as well as all of the scripts needed to let users register with and login to your site.

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Tools to manage multi-author blog posts

By using these plugins, you can manage your group of authors, can track users’ activity, list their posts, and stay up-to-date and notified when your authors publish new content:

Authors Widget – WordPress Premium Plugin

This widget show your site authors with details description and avatar. Widget can be used multiple of times even in one sidebar area.

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Co-Authors Plus

This plugin is an almost complete rewrite of the Co-Authors plugin originally developed at Shepherd Interactive.

Allows multiple authors to be assigned to a Post, Pages, or Custom Post Types via the search-as-you-type inputs. Co-authored posts appear on a co-author’s posts page and feed. New template tags allow listing of co-authors. Editors and Administrators may assign co-authors to a post. Additionally, co-authors may edit the posts they are associated with, and co-authors who are contributors may only edit posts if they have not been published (as is usual).

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Author Complete Post List

Provides an easy way to display the complete list of the an author’s posts, including the posts where he’s also co-author. It solves two problems with the author page:

1. It displays all the posts from the author despite any pre-definition of the maximum number of posts to be displayed.
2. It counts the posts where the user is co-author, even if he’s not the original poster.

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Advanced Blog Authors Widget

This plugin provides an advanced widget that allows you to display your blog authors in any widgetized sidebar. It includes the abilities to display author gravatars, author URLS , post counts, and bios.

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Custom Author Byline

Lots of folks using WordPress sites with multiple authors may run into this problem. You want to attribute correct credit to the writer/author of the article, but not give out access to your WordPress install.

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WP Pending Post Notifier

WP Pending Post Notifier will send a notification to given email address of posts pending review by contributors. It can also optionally notify the contributors when their post is accepted or rejected. WP Status Notifier is useful for moderation in blogs with multiple contributors.

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Audit Trail

Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.

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User Profile Widget for WordPress – About Me

About Me is a plugin for WordPress that creates a new widget to display your user profile and latest tweets. Let your visitors and users know who is behind your site or give a quick explanation about what your site is and what it can do for your users.

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Themes With Authors Profile

Primefolio – WordPress Theme

This is a minimalistic yet feature rich wordpress theme. The theme packs in features like custom post types, taxonomies, custom templates, filterable portfolio, built in contact page, shortcodes, theme options etc. More features of the theme are listed below.
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The Novelist: Responsive WP Theme for Writers

This theme is built for the serious writers looking to showcase their talents. ‘The Novelist’ is a premier RESPONSIVE portfolio theme for authors and/or copy writers. Content is king people.

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Reviewer – WP Theme for Entertainment Reviews

Reviewer is a WordPress theme built for one purpose: writing reviews. Whether it’s reviews for movies or TV shows, Reviewer can handle it.

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Synoptic Premium WordPress Template

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WordPress Membership Lite

Anti-Splog

The ultimate plugin and service to stop and kill splogs in WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress.

Wiki Lite

Advanced Theme Switcher

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If you planning to run Multi site through WordPress, there are some steps that need to be taken in order to get everything set up correctly. It is important that you follow these steps throughly, otherwise your additional sites simply won’t work.

When it comes to create or Convert WordPress into multiple WordPress sites, Look at this tutorial “How to enable Multi Site feature in WordPress 3.0?“, which tell you how to set up everything. Here is an other tutorial which tell you what you need to do to activate the multi-site ability and get through the set up and domain mapping process “How to do domain mapping in wordpress multiste network“. There is one Plugin on WordPress directory Plugin Commander, by using this Plugin you can manage all WordPress Multi Site Network Plugins at one place.

Creating New Network Sites:

After converting your site into Multi Sites Network, Follow these steps to add new sites to your network.

1. Go to Super Admin  by Click on “Network Admin” at the Top right of your WordPress Admin area.

2. You are now in the Networking admin Dashboard, and Click on Create a New Site.

3. Fill out all required field for your new blog, e.g. the Site Address field, a Site Title, and Admin Email. Click Add Site to finish the creation. Now you can see the new site added under Network Sites link.  You can visit new site by Clicking “Visit” link on  your new site.

4. You can edit to change the setting for your new site by Clicking on “Edit” link. Aloso you can see User for this site and are able to edit them.

Plugins on Your Multi Sites Network:

I already have explain “How to Manage Plugins in WordPress Multi Site Network” , but there is one more excellent Free WordPress Plugin Service “ManageWP“, You can manage multiple WordPress sites by using this free service and for Self hosted WordPress this would be available soon , there’s a detail article on that Plugin on WPMU “Manage Multiple WordPress Sites from One Centralized Dashboard“, You can read all features of this service by visiting the above link.

Themes on Your Multi Site Network:

Install theme normally as you do on Single WordPress site. Its up to Super Admin to give permission for the usage of particular theme. Under Network Admin click on Themes and check Network Enable or Disable link for the themes you want to be available to the network site:

Best BuddyPress Themes for Social Networking

DynamiX – Premium WordPress Theme
ReviewIt – Review & Community WordPress Theme
LetterPress – WordPress Theme with CMS Features
LetterPress – WordPress Theme with CMS Features
Wordshaft WordPress Theme
Digitalis – Business and Portfolio WordPress Theme

Control User Registration Across the Network:

Go to Network Admin >> Click on “Site” link and Click Edit under the site for which you want to allow people can set up their own sites. Enter value 1 under “Users Can Register” field:

People can sign-up now by visiting /wp-signup.php on your site. There is an easy to provide this link is by adding it to a menu:

That’s all. The site creation link will be available to people and they can add their email and can choose their own sub-domain.They are now ready to run a new blog by login and start blogging with all the normal WordPress features. However, you can allow or disallow plugins and themes for each subsite through the SuperAdmin.

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After setting up Multisite You can  get the following warning at the top of every admin page:

Warning! WordPress encrypts user cookies, but you must add the following lines to wp-config.php for it to be more secure.
Before the line /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ please add this code:
define( 'AUTH_KEY', 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' );
define( 'SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' );
define( 'LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' );
define( 'NONCE_KEY', 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' );

Where xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx means unique key which will generated automatically for you.

Also if you  upgraded from WordPress WPMU to 3.1  and you can  get the same error  “Warning! WordPress encrypts user cookies, but you must add the following lines…” warning telling you to add the lines to my wp-config.php file.

Solution:

There are 8 lines total that need to be included in the wp-config file on multisite consisting of both SALT and KEY codes.

There’s a KEY 4 line block AND a SALT 4 line block.

Having only ever seen the KEY version before in working with non-multisite WP, I did not notice a difference.

But after looking in detail I found that there are 8 lines not four. So Follow these steps.

Cause: WordPress is not saving the salt keys.

Fix:

Method 1:

1. Open wp-config.php file
2. Find the lines for AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY, and NONCE_KEY and delete them.
3. Save your wp-config.php file.
4. Log back into the WordPress Dashboard and  you should be given 8 new lines of keys.
5. Copy the lines and paste them in your wp-config.php file.
6. Save the file.
7. Clear your cache and refresh.

You can generate these key from the following link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

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WordPress has the <!–more->feature which make the post “Condensable” for the main post view page, but sometime that feature doe not fulfill the requirement.

I’d like the user to have the option to expand the post that interests him, while keeping him in the context of all the other post headlines. This is a very popular jQuery enhancement. Let’s take a look at how we’d do that. Set up a clean custom-jquery.js file in your theme and let’s get started.

First, hide the post content:

jQuery(“.post .entry-content”).hide();?

Next, it would be very inefficient to have an editor add a control element to each post. So, we could add it to the theme’s post.php page, but then, the control would appear even if the user had JavaScript disabled. We want this
to degrade gracefully, it’s an enhancement after all.
If someone comes across this content in a mobile browser without JavaScript support or a text-only or text-to-speech browser, we’ll want them to just view the content as normal without any non-functional elements distracting them. We’ll use jQuery to add our control element. If JavaScript is disabled, it simply won’t appear.

jQuery(“.post”).after(“<div class=’openIt’ style=’border-top: 1px solid #666; color: #036; text-align:right; cursor:pointer;’>Expand</div>”);

We now just need a nice way to show and hide the post’s content:
jQuery(“.openIt”).click(function() {
jQuery(this).prev(“.post”).find(“.entry”).slideToggle(“slow”);
});

Last, let’s make sure the instructions in the .openIt div update:

jQuery(“.openIt”).toggle(function(){
jQuery(this).html(“Close”)},
function(){
jQuery(this).html(“Expand”)
});
…
That’s it! This is very  useful jQuery enhancement for WordPress.

References and More Resources:

Show/Hide any div box with jQuery in WordPress
More Showing, More Hiding
Assorted built-in jQuery show/hide effects
Simple Jquery Show/Hide Div
How to Expand / Collapse Latest Posts or Archives
How to expand collapse (toggle) div layer using jQuery
How to Expand/Collapse TreeCtrl nodes by using Enter Key?
Expanding Text plugin for WordPress
Collapse-O-Matic WordPress Plugin

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WordPress was a single-site platform but WordPress 3.0 already have the functionality to run MultiSites, before that it require  to use WordPress MU, which enables multiuser (multi-tenant) installations with multiple sites all under one roof.

MultiSite functionality is not enabled by default in WordPress 3.0, You need to check out the new MultiSite settings in the WP Admin under Tools > Network. To enable MultiSite, you need to add the following line of code in  wp-config.php file:

define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

A new link “Create a Network” will appear in the WP Admin under the Tools menu, After uploading your updated config.php file to the server, where you will define a few options and create a network.

Clicking on the Network link in the Tools menu loads the network setup/installation page. It should look like this:

After adding required information in “Create a Network”, install and update your wp-config.php file and .htaccess. Before updating never forget to backup your both file.
Now you will see a New feature in admin panel as “Super Admin” in Dashboard.

Welcome, Super Admin!

You are now “Super Admin,” and have ultimate control over every site in your network. Here you can mange Create New Site, Create New User along with other options. The good news is that all of your network settings are available through the Super Admin menu panel located at the top of the left sidebar.

Enable Multisite in WordPress 3.0 With One Click!

Easily upgrade your WordPress 3.0 blog into Multi-Site with the click of a single button.
This plugin takes care of most of the dirty work of installing Multi-Site on WordPress 3.0. However, there may be some server-side changes you may need to do before upgrading to Multi-Site. Please refer to Plugin Documentation or the WordPress Codex before using this plugin.

Download | Detail

WordPress 3 MultiSite Setup:

More Resource:
Common WordPress Multisite Problems and Solutions
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How to enable Multi-Site option in WordPress 3.0
How to Enable WordPress 3.0 Multi-Site

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BuddyPress is a collection of WordPress MU plugins designed for social networking, it helps to extended profiles, private messaging, friends lists, groups, a messaging system and an activity stream similar to the status update facilities on sites such as Twitter and Facebook. BuddyPress can not be use in single-server version of WordPress.

Nowadays lots of developers experimenting and writing about BuddyPress. Today I am compiling a latest list of excellent Pluings (included in BuddyPress pack), hacks and Tutorials.

Hacks and Tutorials:

1. How to Customize YourBuddyPress URL

These are simple instructions on how to customize the slugs for BuddyPress, that will boost SEO and improve your site usability.

2. Adding Sign in With Twitter to a Buddypress Site

This is well explained tutorial on configuring BuddyPress to allow users to sign in using their Twitter usernames and passwords with the help of the Twit Connect plugin.

3. Enabling Twitter Avatars Within BuddyPress

By using the Twit Connect plugin help you to add a new function which enables Twitter avatars on regular WordPress blogs.

4. BuddyPresHack: Remove New Member Registration From Activity Stream

5. BuddyPress Hack: Disable Activity Stream Comments/Favorites For Certain Types

6. What Are Parent and Child Theme?

7. Simple BuddyPress Guide

BuddyPress plugins:

There are nine plugins in the base BuddyPress suite. Each one can be used to add a social feature to your Social Networking site. By default, all BuddyPress components are enabled. You can selectively disable any of the components by using the BuddyPress Component Setup page.

Extended Profiles:

This allows you to create extra profile fields, which can be filled in by the members.

Private Messaging:

This allows members to contact each other directly. There are private messaging plugins for WordPress and also for BuddyPress. Rather than confusing your users with multiple places to send/receive PMs, I recommend testing each plugin and using the one that you feel best suits your site.

Friends:

This allows members to maintain friend lists, as they would on sites such as Facebook or MySpace.

Groups:

This allows members to create groups where they can post images, links, and blog posts. For example, Wicca practitioners could create a group to share spells, and Slayers from Los Angeles could have a group where they would share tips and news.

The Wire:

This plugin works like walls on other social networking sites. You can add a wire to a page or component, and users will be able to post messages to that page.

Activity Streams:

This plugin tracks member activity across the site. A member’s activity stream will show new posts they have made, changes to their profile, and changes to their friends list. Members will also be able to keep up to date with their friends’ activities via their stream.

Blog Tracking:

This feature aggregates all of the blogs, blog posts, and comments created by a specific member, making it easier for people to keep up with the blogging activities of their friends.

Forums:

This component allows groups to create and manage their own forums, using the existing bbPress plugin.

Status Updates

Allow users to post status updates.

For Download visit The BuddyPress Community | Visit plugin site

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5. Free Download Plugins and Themes From WordPress Multi Site User (WPMU)

WordPress is one of the best and very popular blogging platforms which is not only free but also released as a open source project.
On the other hand, WPMU (wordpress mu or multi-user) is another version of wordpress which uses the core wp with some modifications and convert any single user wordpress blog into a multi user blogging platform.

It is most famously used for WordPress.com where it serves tens of millions of hits on millions of blogs each day. Many bloggers interested in using WordPress MU already have a WordPress blog. Unfortunately, I think it is not possible to turn WordPress installs into WordPress MU installs directly uploading new files and upgrading. There is only one way to convert WordPress blog to WordPress MU is to export (Hope you know how to export, for quick reference “choose Tools ? Export in the WordPress Admin”) WordPress Blog and then import it into a new and different WordPress MU installation.

If you really want to convert your WordPress blog into WordPress MU, Then you must follow these steps:

1. Disable comments on your WordPress installed Blog. So no data arrives during migration process.

2. In admin panel, Under Tools, Select Export and save Your xml file which contains all your WordPress blog data

3. Create new folder, directory and install fresh WordPress MU with New database or install it on a different blog. Keep in mind all installation should be on same server so that file could move quickly.

4. Adjust PHP setting according to your file size and sure it allow file upload, or in case If your file is too large, break it into smaller pieces. Now start to import you saved file as go to Tools in admin panel and Click Import, select option WordPress. Don’t forget to select the Check box to import attachments as well.

5. Confirm that your data and Photos has been migrated properly, All the images will be stored in folders under wp-content/blogs.dir/. In this directory the numbers represent the blog ID so the first blog installed will be the main blog and its ID’s number will be 1.

6. Confirm your Permalink structure as your requirement, for detail info check out Using Permalinks. This setting is very importent in WordPress MU.
To change Permalink Structure, in Admin Panel Under Setting Select Permalinks , never forget to change the permission of .htaccess file to 777.

7. Now most important part, before downloading your “wp-content” folder, backup up your WordPress blog’s files and database so in case of any emergency you can roll back. Download wp-content folder.

8. Delete all files from your WordPress blog and Move or copy all WordPress MU files and folder from Temporary location to your domain space.

9. Upload your theme to wp-content/themes folder and plugins to wp-content/plugins.

10. Correct your Current URLs for WordPress MU under MySQL and you can do that via MySQL command line over SSH or via phpMyAdmin as follow:

a. Do Execute query: UPDATE wp_site SET domain=’muqadar.com’ WHERE id=1;

(where muqadar.com= you own domain name)

b. Do Execute query: UPDATE wp_blogs SET domain=’muqadar.com’ WHERE
blog_id=1;

c. Do Execute query: UPDATE wp_1_options SET option_value=’http://muqadar.com’
WHERE option_name in(‘siteurl’,’home’);


11. Check your w-config.php and update the defined constant DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE if this is not set according to for your current domain.

12. Login to admin panel using same User Name and Password as you were used for WordPress blog.

13. Regenerate your Permalinks for WordPress MU. Go to Permalinks under Settings and change your structure as you did in Step# 6. Before pressing the Update button, never forget to change the permission of .htaccess file to 777.

14. To make themes available in “Appearance”, First you have to enable installed, Under Site Admin select “Themes“ and enable the theme which you want to apply on your WordPress MU.

15. Now enabled themes would be available under “Appearance”, Activate the theme for your blog as you would normally do to activate themes in WordPress.

16. You have to activate all required plugins, Go to “Installed” under “Plugins” and activate your plugins.
Only the Admin has the right to access Plugins menu. Plugins Menu can be activated for a single blog and users under Options in Site Admin.

17. To reflect your Preference you have to update all options throughout WordPress MU.

Now your WordPress blog is transfered to WordPress MU, When you get login you will see resemblance as you see in WordPress Admin but it has key differences.
One of the major difference you can see the “Site Admin” on top of the left side navigation pane.

The Site Admin panel has 6 main  additional Admin Panels  and few more panels according to your installed plugins as follow:

1. Admin panel

You can search by users or by blogs as well as create a new blog or a new user.

2. Blogs panel

It contains a list of all blogs in WordPress MU, also you can create a new blog. This panel shows useful information about existing blogs, such as Blog ID, Assigned users and when blog was updated.
When you take you cursor on the blog, you will see following options:
Edit | Backend | Deactivate | Archive | Spam | Delete | Visit

3. Users panel

This Users panel is not same as Users of “Authors & Users” under Users. This Users Panel is used for modifying and assigning users in the entire WordPress MU system to specific blogs.
Keep in mind that spaces between user name are not allowed here.

4. Themes panel

This panel is used for making WordPress themes available to individual blogs and to your main Blog. Themes that are not enabled in this panel are not available, even to administrators under Appearance.

5. Options panel

The most important site configuration panel in all of WordPress MU. For tweaking and configuration follow the following table.

6. Upgrade panel

You can upgrade all the blogs on your site through this page. It works by calling the upgrade script of each blog automatically. Hit the link below to upgrade.

More Resources About WordPress MU:

1. Free WPMU, WordPress MU and BuddyPress Plugins and Themes

2. WordPress MU and BuddyPress plugins, themes, support, tips and how to..

3. All about WordPress Multi-user WordPress MU Plugin

4. WordPress And WordPress MU Will Merge: Good Or Bad?

5. WordPress in Your Language

6. Converting a WP.org Site To WPMU

7. Importing a single WP blog to a WPMu Installation

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