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How To Clone WordPress Websites In Multisite Network?

You can easily clone existing WordPress websites to completely new ones in just a few seconds with all content, theme option and plugin configurations etc.

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WPMS Admin Reports: New Reporting Tool For WordPress Multisite Administrators

WPMS Admin Reports is the brand new WordPress plugin made for multisite networks. It provides you a reporting tool accessible by multisite administrators. It gives you three reports and a dashboard that gives you a quick snapshot view of the health of your WordPress Multisite installation. All of the tables are client-side sortable using jQuery and tablesorter. It includes graphical indicators (smiley faces) to help easily identify problem sites, users and plugins.

Install and activate WPMS Admin Reports. After activation you may access the reports from network admin dashboard.

wpms-admin-reports screenshot 1Dashboardwpms-admin-reports screenshot 2Site Reportwpms-admin-reports screenshot 3User Report

wpms-admin-reports screenshot 4Plugin Report

wpms-admin-reports screenshot 5Help Tab

Dashboard – provides charts displaying multiple factors from the other three reports in a graphical way using radar and pie charts.

Site Report – Detailed information about each site in your installation like Errors, ID, Status (Up/Down), Last Post, Last Update, When Created, Current Template, Number of Users and lists the Primary Administrator.

User Report – Gives you detailed information about each user in your installation.

Plugin Report – Lists all installed plugins and provides information about each one. Includes information such as Name, Upgradeability, Status, Activation Site-wide, Total Number of Blogs that use it and a list of those blogs.

How To Turn On Maintenance Mode In WordPress Multisite Networks ?

It is easy to enable maintenance mode in single site installations but on multisite network there are multiple websites and various users so single site plugins not always work on multisite networks especially if you want to force network wide maintenance mode so that no-one can login in between maintenance period.

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Popular Social Media Sharing Buttons By ‘Add To Any’ For WordPress

Share Buttons by AddToAny is a popular social media sharing kit with more than 2 million digital downloads. It is a free plugin which you can download from WordPress plugin repository, make a few easy configuration settings and easly display sharing icons for popular social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, StumbleUpon and there are many many more.

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Boost Your BuddyPress Registration Options With More Useful Features

You can moderate new BuddyPress members, fight spams, set BuddyPress groups and sites and allows new members to join them from the registration page by using BuddyPress Registration Options plugin.

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How To Reorder, Hide Or Add New WordPress Dashboard Menu Items ?

WordPress default admin area menu is perfect for bloggers but sometimes it may not meet your preferences. For example: When you are running a BuddyPress community site and you want BuddyPress admin controls to appear on top rather than Posts, Media and Pages menu. This tutorial explain you how you can easily reorder, remove or add new custom admin menus in WordPress.

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Cache Gravatar Into Your Host For Speeding Up Your WordPress Site

Cache is basically a component used for storing data transparently for fast processing of requests. Data stored in cache can be the computed values or duplicates of original values stored somewhere else. If data is stored in the cache then requests are served simply by reading the cache which is comparatively faster. This tutorial explains you how you can enable cache for Gravatars of your WordPress site.

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Easily Display Customizable List Of All Subsites Inside Your Theme Templates Or Using A Widget In Your WordPress Multisite Network

YD WPMU Bloglist Widget plugin activates a new sidebar widget that lets you display the list of all subsites of your main parent site using a single or multi-column layout format.

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How To Display An Ordered List Of Subsites With Post Count In WordPress Multisite Network ?

YD WPMU Bloglist Widget provides you a sidebar widget and a template function for displaying list of subsites with posts count in main WordPress site of a multisite network.

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Display A Fancy PopUp Globally, Per Site Or On Specific URLs In WordPress

WordPress PopuUp is a fee fancy PopUp plugin which is compaticle with both WP Single and WP Multi Site installations. It is one of the most effective way of advertising your mailing list, special offer or for displaying Ads via javascript ‘pop over’ in your WordPress based website.

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How To Limit Blogs Per User In WordPress Multisite Network Installations ?

When you open blogs creation for your website members then what common problem arrives is that they can create as many blogs they want and by default WordPress doesn’t provides you any feature to limit blogs per user. Well to resolve thus problem network admins use a popular WordPress plugin called Limit Blogs Per User, with this plugin you can easily limit blogs per users in your WordPress Multisite Network.

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How To Display Most Recent Posts Across Your WordPress Multisite Network ?

You can easily display most recent blog posts across your WordPress Multisite Installation including recent posts from all subsites and main site of your WordPress Multisite Network.

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NS Cloner Pro: Powerful Site Cloning Plugin For Creating Fully Configured Sites In WordPress Multisite Networks

Few days ago we discussed about NS Cloner plugin that allows WordPress multisite netwrk admins to clone existing WordPress sites to completely new ones with same old settings in just a few seconds.

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How To Set Defaults For All New Blogs Created In WordPress Multisite Network ?

In WordPress Multisite Network WordPres automatically uses preset defaults in all newly created subsites. This sometimes creates problem when you want to use your own default settings for each and every blog created in your multisite network.

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WordPress Multisite Robots.txt Manager For Easy Network Wide Management Of All Robots.txt Files

Here is a tiutorial for quick and easy feature that allows you to manage your WordPress Multisite Network files in an advanced and easy way without opening any cPanel or FTP interface but first thing you should know Multisite Robots.txt Manager is a free plugin only for WordPress Multisite Networks which is needed to be network activated which means you cannot use it by activating it in individual subsites of your WordPress Network Install.

Installation & Usage: Install and network activate Multisite Robots.txt Manager. Upon activation visit your Network Admin Dashboard -> Settings -> MS Robot.txt and start playing with robot.txt files all over your multisite network.  The plugin provides you following useful features:

  • You can instantly add Sitemaps URL’s to all your robots.txt files.
  • Allows you to manage all sites from Network Administration Area.
  • You can quickly publish preset robots.txt files to your Network or a subsite.
  • Allows you to manage a single Website through the Website Settings Admins.
  • You can run mass update the all sites across your Multisite the Network in just a click.
  • You can easily create custom and unique robots.txt files for each subsite present on your network.

Following screenshot shows this plugin’s option page showing a quick view of various hidden sections like presets & examples, plugin usage:

More plugin’s screenshots are available here.

You should know that d

  • efault “Network Wide” robots.txt file is not live robots.txt file. Deactivating this plugin doesn’t change or remove the preset option instead it stops displaying the plugins robot.txt files. But deleting this plugin removes all settings from your database for all your sites.

For making Robots.txt file live for a Website, either click “Publish to Network” button or select website using dropdown then click “Change Sites” buttons. Now adjust the displayed robots.txt file and click the “Update this Website” button.

Both methods simply publishes robots.txt file to Website(s) and make it live. Clicking the [ view robots.txt ] link next to the Websites dropdown shows the changes within your web-browser. Visit Plugin’s Website for documentaion and user guide here.

Easily Display Your Blog Author Avatars List Anywhere In Your WordPress Site

Bloggers running a multi-author WordPress blog can display avatar list of their site authors using a widget or shortcode. Here are two WordPress plugins that allows you to do so very easily.

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Increase Readability By Turning Web Pages Calm And Clean. Now Use It In WordPress, Android, Google Chrome, Tablets And More

Easily convert any webpage to a clean minimalist view, you can read it or you can add it to your reading list for reading it some other time. Readability.Com is a free online service that lets you read any article on Internet in a clean clatter free format. You can use it in Google Chrome, Smartphone, Android, Tablet etc. If you are a WordPress user then you can add its button in your website.

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Top 12 Free Plugins For Better Management Of WordPress Multisite Networks

If you are running a WordPress Multisite network then you might be looking for the plugins that hides some default WordPress features for your client sites. Here are some popular and useful list of plugins that allows you to manage your network in a better way.

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Most Popular Statistics And Visitor Map Plugins For Your WordPress Site

Jetpack by WordPress.Com is most popular and widely used plugin offers you stats and various other features. In this article we are sharing list of other popular statistics and visitor maps plugins available in WordPress Plugin Repository.

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Log The IP Address Of Newly Registered Users In WordPress Multisite

Sometime people create multiple fake accounts in your WordPress site like they do in Facebook. You can fight back by logging their IP addresses and this can be done easily by using Register IP plugin in your site.

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