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Manually creating a Multisite network - WordPress Tutorial
From the course: WordPress for Education: Multisite
Manually creating a Multisite network
- [Voiceover] Now that we have everything prepped to convert our Wordpress install to a multi-site network, from the Admin section of your site, let's go to Tools and click on that new Network Setup option that we just configured in the last movie. After enabling the Network Setup menu, the multi-site install takes three steps. We'll do the first two in this movie. The first is very straightforward, we'll give our network a name. I'll call mine Student Sites, and verify my Admin email address. It's really important that you enter a real email address here that you and only you have access to, since this is going to be the address of the administrator for your entire network. Then, click the Install button. The screen should refresh, and we're presented with the Enabling This Network page. The next step is to add some more code to that wp-config.php file that we edited in the last movie. Instead of trying to type this, select the code in the first box and copy it. Leave this tab open…
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