Hidden Power of WordPress Multisite Feature

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Being aware of the role of content in generating targeted visitors to a website and promote their online presence, people increasingly use blogs and website to distribute quality contents under a variety of niches. In a course of time, people realize that the number of content sites has increased exponentially. Hence, administrating these sites involves a lot of time-consuming processes, which includes content creation, user registration, changing themes, adding plugins, etc. The Multisite feature of the Wordpress is an excellent solution for people who maintain multiple blogs, websites or content management systems.
What you can do using Multisite Feature?
With a single wordpress installation, you can add many numbers of blogs or sites to form a multisite network. Using this tightly coupled network you can be a network admin to run all these sites. Initially, you can choose unique themes for different blogs under the multisite feature in a single control panel of your wordpress. Specialized or common plugins can be added to each blog with a little effort. You can define the users and their roles separately for each website in a single window. You can have different set of users assigned for different sites and still you can be a master user or admin for all these sites. Common database can be shared between all the websites preserving consistency of data. Backup and upgrading of individual wordpress sites are done in a single click.
How to use this Multisite Feature?
You can either configure your existing wordpress to include multisite feature or create a new wordpress with a multisite feature. Multiple sites can be represented using sub-domains like niche1.mysite.com, niche2.mysite.com or as sub-directories like mysite.com/niche1, mysite.com/niche2 etc. Given the role of SEO, sub domain technique work better since search treats all these sub-domains as individual sites and any backlinks coming from these sites will be considered as inboud links unlike in sub-directory technique where links coming from those sites will be considered as internal links.
To create a multisite network click Network link in your Wordpress dashboard. Enter the network admin details such as title, email, etc. Add ‘blogs.dir’ directory under your main wordpress folder ‘wpcontent’. In case of upgrading an existing wordpress site you need to edit wp-config.php and add code related to multisite configuration at the end of the file.
(define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true)
Get into network settings from your dashboard and add multiple sites. That’s it, now you are ready with a single control unit for all your wordpress sites.