[wp-edu] Automate Site Creation Process

[Laurie Miles]

Thank you for responding Neel. I appreciate it.

*Laurie B. Miles*
Instructional Technology Specialist
TLT Resources <http://tlt.unca.edu> | Digital Scholarship Team Ramsey
Library <http://library.unca.edu/digital_scholarship> | ​​UNC Asheville
<http://www.unca.edu>
lmiles at unca.edu |828-251-6630

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Neel Shah <shah.neel at nyu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Laurie,
>
> This is Neel Shah from NYU. We do something similar to what you asked for
> and allow users to create sites based on their university affiliation. You
> can find an overview of it in the Jennifer sent.
>
> Feel free to reach out to me at shah.neel at nyu.edu if you have any
> questions.
>
> Best,
> Neel
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 14, 2017, at 11:24 AM, Laurie Miles <lmiles at unca.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Ronnie.
>
> Thank you for responding. I actually chatted with one of your WPMU DEV's
> support folks this morning. Her name is Katya Tsihotska. She is going to
> pursue this issue for me.
>
> I don't think filtering our Active Directory for only certain users would
> work well, as all our faculty, staff, and students have the same email
> domain, and some users within all those roles would be eligible for one of
> our WordPress sites.
>
> I hope this makes sense.
>
> Thank you.
> Laurie
>
>
>
> *Laurie B. Miles*
> Instructional Technology Specialist
> TLT Resources <http://tlt.unca.edu> | Digital Scholarship Team Ramsey
> Library <http://library.unca.edu/digital_scholarship> | ​​UNC Asheville
> <http://www.unca.edu>
> lmiles at unca.edu |828-251-6630 <(828)%20251-6630>
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Ronnie Burt <burtrw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Laurie,
>>
>> I manage the education and hosting services at WPMU DEV (and our sister
>> service, CampusPress). I agree, the Pro Sites plugin may not be designed
>> for this need. I'd be happy to chat about that. I know that for many of our
>> customers, we are able to leverage attributes in something like Active
>> Directory or Shibboleth to limit site creation to certain groups, like just
>> faculty/staff. Perhaps that might be useful for you?
>>
>> Ronnie
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:15 AM Laurie Miles <lmiles at unca.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> We are running a WordPress multisite and would like to automate the
>>> creation of sites. Our goal is to limit who can create a site while still
>>> allowing the user to connect to the wp-signup.php form for automated site
>>> registration. We've configured our system so that users who have a
>>> university email address will be able to log into the system, and once
>>> logged in, create sites. However, our campus policy limits who on the
>>> campus can get a WordPress site in our network.
>>>
>>> Has anyone set up this type of system, and do you have any suggestions
>>> for how we can make it work? I am trying the WPMU DEV Pro Sites plugin, but
>>> it's not really intended for this purpose and I'm worried it may cause
>>> unwanted anomalies.
>>>
>>> I appreciate any advice you can offer. FYI - I'm new at coding and our
>>> budget is tight!
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Laurie
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