WordPress Tutorials and Blog Posts

In your files, browse to wp-config.php and open that file.

Scroll right to the bottom until you find this line: /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

Just ABOVE that line, enter this line: define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

Save that file and login to your WordPress admin panel. Hopefully you'll be able to click on "Tools" and see a "Network" tab has been activated:

If you click on Tools then Network you'll see a screen like the one above. You can name your multisite network, set and admin e-mail address and then click "Install"..

You'll see a screen like the one below. It's going to ask you to complete three more steps to set up your network:

In your main /wp-content/ directory, simply create a new folder called /blogs.dir/. This is where all the files uploaded by your network users will be stored.

WordPress is going to ask you to go back to the same place in your wp-config.php as before and cut-and-paste the code it gives you.

Finally, you'll need to create a file called .htaccess. This should be sitting right alongside the /blogs.dir/ folder you created earlier. Open the file and paste the code it gave you earlier:

Hopefully now you've gone through this process, you'll be able to login to your WordPress admin area and see two new links in your admin panel: Super Admin and My Sites.

Woohoo! You've successfully set up WordPress multisites. Now, click here to read Part 2 of this tutorial: Managing WordPress Multisites.