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<p class=""><a href="http://bates.edu">bates.edu</a> 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 (<a href="http://www.bates.edu/wordpress/">bates.edu/wordpress</a>). While WP does have some quirks, and lacks stock centralized control features, our overall experience with the CMS has been very positive.</p>
<p class="">Best,<br>Nick</p><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Joseph Ugoretz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joseph.ugoretz@mhc.cuny.edu" target="_blank">joseph.ugoretz@mhc.cuny.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>These are class sites and student eportfolios, so we do not ever retire or purge sites. </div>
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<div>Students do return to old sites and take them up again even if they have been inactive for a long time, even years. </div>
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<div>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). </div>
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On Mar 13, 2015, at 1:47 AM, Hugh Paterson III <<a href="mailto:hugh@thejourneyler.org" target="_blank">hugh@thejourneyler.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>What sort of site retirement policy do you maintain? How do admin know when to purge a site from a set of 4,000?
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<div>On Mar 12, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Joseph Ugoretz <<a href="mailto:joseph.ugoretz@mhc.cuny.edu" target="_blank">joseph.ugoretz@mhc.cuny.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>My CUNY colleagues at Baruch College have a similar set up with far more sites. <br>
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<span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Associate Dean<br>
Teaching, Learning and Technology<br>
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<a style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline">35 West 67th St.</a><br>
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On Mar 12, 2015, at 7:26 PM, Mcmillan, Scott <<a href="mailto:scott.mcmillan@ubc.ca" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">scott.mcmillan@ubc.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10pt">Hi Ryan,
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<div>On the UBC CMS we have just over 900 domain mapped sites.</div>
<div>We run one Network within multi site and <span style="font-size:10pt">have one central theme and allow users to map their domains using the Domain Mapping Plugin. </span></div>
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<div>It's worked well for users so far. </div>
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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.</div>
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509.574.4788 |<span> </span><a href="mailto:rkite@yvcc.edu" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">rkite@yvcc.edu</a><br>
Yakima Valley Community College<br>
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