[wp-edu] How do you manage a site with 100+ sub sites with WordPress?

[Nicholas O'Brien]

Hi Ryan

bates.edu hosts 170 sites within one install of WPMU (this is just the
public-focused site). Each site has a unique menu and unique content, and
is assigned one of 12 themes. Each of these 12 themes shares a header
element that pulls in our global navigation and word mark. We recently
switched our global nav. from a WP menu on the root site to a static HTML
file for performance reasons. We have 230 site editors and keep them
informed via a WordPress Community of Practice (bates.edu/wordpress
<http://www.bates.edu/wordpress/>). While WP does have some quirks, and
lacks stock centralized control features, our overall experience with the
CMS has been very positive.

Best,
Nick


On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Joseph Ugoretz <joseph.ugoretz at mhc.cuny.edu
> wrote:

>  These are class sites and student eportfolios, so we do not ever retire
> or purge sites.
>
>  Students do return to old sites and take them up again even if they have
> been inactive for a long time, even years.
>
>  Part of our policy and what we guarantee to students is that these sites
> will remain available until and unless the students themselves delete them
> (except in the case of serious violations of our community guidelines...has
> not happened yet).
>
>  Joe
> --
> Joseph Ugoretz, PhD
> Associate Dean
> Teaching, Learning and Technology
> Macaulay Honors College, CUNY
> 35 West 67th St.
> New York, New York 10023
> 212-729-2920 <//212-729-2920>
>
> On Mar 13, 2015, at 1:47 AM, Hugh Paterson III <hugh at thejourneyler.org>
> wrote:
>
>  What sort of site retirement policy do you maintain? How do admin know
> when to purge a site from a set of 4,000?
>
>  - Hugh Paterson III
>
>
>
>  On Mar 12, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Joseph Ugoretz <joseph.ugoretz at mhc.cuny.edu>
> wrote:
>
>  WordPress multisite works very well for this. We currently have, on our
> big multisite install, over 4,000 sites, with many different themes. We
> aren't currently using domain mapping but may soon.
>
>  My CUNY colleagues at Baruch College have a similar set up with far more
> sites.
>
> --
> Joseph Ugoretz, PhD
> Associate Dean
> Teaching, Learning and Technology
> Macaulay Honors College, CUNY
> 35 West 67th St.
> New York, New York 10023
> 212-729-2920 <//212-729-2920>
>
> On Mar 12, 2015, at 7:26 PM, Mcmillan, Scott <scott.mcmillan at ubc.ca>
> wrote:
>
>  Hi Ryan,
>
>  On the UBC CMS we have just over 900 domain mapped sites.
> We run one Network within multi site and have one central theme and allow
> users to map their domains using the Domain Mapping Plugin.
>
>  It's worked well for users so far.
>
>  -Scott
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* wp-edu [wp-edu-bounces at lists.automattic.com] on behalf of Ryan
> Kite [rkite at yvcc.edu]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 12, 2015 3:46 PM
> *To:* wp-edu at lists.automattic.com
> *Subject:* [wp-edu] How do you manage a site with 100+ sub sites with
> WordPress?
>
>    We are looking at going with WordPress with at our college, currently
> have about 100+ sub sites under one master, each with unique navigation and
> content.
>
>
>  How do you manage this in WordPress?
>
>
>
>
> *Ryan Kite *Web Designer
> 509.574.4788  | rkite at yvcc.edu
> Yakima Valley Community College
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryankite/
>
>
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-- 
*Nicholas Edward O'Brien*
Senior Digital Analyst
bates.edu <http://www.bates.edu> - 207-786-6251
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