WordPress Multisite Agency

Multisite WordPress Development

Impact Media specialises in creating bespoke WordPress Multisite solutions.

We have developed multisite networks for numerous clients with complex requirements, even where other web development agencies couldn’t help. We can help you start from scratch, or migrate your existing suite of websites into a Multisite environment.

WordPress Multisite Development In Experienced Hands

We're the go-to specialist agency for Multisite projects.

We specialise in developing with WordPress Multisite and have a lot of experience in using it to create bespoke solutions for brands across a variety of industries.

Providing businesses that have complex requirements and structures with a more integrated and simplified way to manage their website portfolio.

We've used Multisite effectively for numerous business use cases:

We also provide WordPress Multisite Support, Maintenance and Hosting.

A Handful Of Clients We Support

Impact made the transition easy

In migrating our 25 company websites to WordPress, Impact made the transition easy. Their technical know how and approach helped the group move from a restricted CMS to an easy to use website that allows each country to maintain their own unique version.

Michael Schofield

Marketing Manager

Bringing professionalism and dedication

Impact has been a joy to work with from the start of our challenging and expansive multisite brief! It's lovely to work with a family and team which are all dedicated and knowledgeable, whilst bringing professionalism and dedication to all of our projects to date.

Sarah Le Gresley

Marketing Director

Trusted By Brands Across The Globe

The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Law, The New York Times, Reuters and Cheapflights all make use of the WordPress Multisite feature to address their unique challenges.

From expanding globally and adding local sites for new territories, to creating ad-hoc microsites for industries or authors. Whether adding a new sub-brand to your group, or a new product or service which requires its own website.

Multisite allows for faster creation of branded sub-sites which are ready to go with the plugins and functionality that you use across your other web properties. Alternatively, sub-sites can have their own unique branding and functionality whilst still sharing core features and of course, hosting infrastructure.

What’s more, user roles allow you to give complete or restricted control to whoever will be managing these additional sites without compromising the security of the rest of your network.

Head over to our case study page for some WordPress Multisite Development examples created by Impact.

Take Control Of Your Website Network

Whether you have 2 sites or 2,000, WordPress Multisite allows you to manage them all from one central hub.

WordPress Multisite allows you to create a network of linked websites from a single WordPress installation. Each website can be managed from a single WordPress dashboard, whilst the individual websites still retain their own dashboards.

It can take a lot of the repetitive and sometimes costly work associated with having multiple websites, and considerably reduce management time by only requiring changes to one site to affect all of them. It can also facilitate improved security through centralised user management, and give businesses greater visibility and control over their group’s digital activity.

Even better, you get to retain important features on each individual site, such as branding, sitemaps, and unique content.

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Multisite Implementation Options

Depending on your requirements and business structure, there are two main ways in which we can implement Multisite.

This will depend on whether your websites share a theme, or require individual themes.

For most of the businesses we work with, the multiple-theme option is more suitable. Giving them the flexibility to have visually distinct websites with differing functionality within their multisite network.

You can find out more about the two common methods of multisite implementation below, but if you have any questions or queries, we’ll gladly talk you through the options available.

Standard Multisites

A standard WordPress Multisite implementation uses a single parent theme which is added to the parent or hub site. This hub site is then cloned for each child or sub site in the network. These sites will all look alike and use the same plugins and functionality.

This means that updates across the network, whether WordPress Core, plugin updates, or code pushes, can be done just once for the entire network. Rather than having to be done on each individual site.

The sites in this network may have unique domain names or share a domain. In the latter case, the sites that live under the primary parent site will live on subdomains.

Multiple Theme Multisites

What if you don’t want your websites to look alike? What if you are a group with multiple sub-brands, each with its own unique branding, character and team?

Thankfully Multisite for WordPress doesn’t have to be restrictive when it comes to design and functionality.

Utilising multiple themes solves this; a parent theme and child themes for other sites within the multisite installation.

Every website can have its own theme, unique branding, plugins and functionality, while still living in a multisite environment with all the benefits that it brings.

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WordPress Multisite Development FAQ’s

What is WordPress Multisite?

WordPress Multisite is a special feature within WordPress that allows you to create a network of linked websites from a single WordPress installation.

What Are The Benefits of WordPress Multisite?

Some businesses and organisations need more than a single website. But when they do, organisation and management can quickly become convoluted and time consuming.

All websites within a multisite network can be managed from a central dashboard. This allows allows for simplified control across websites, and the ability to make updates across all sites at once, rather than one by one.

The super admin can manage and oversee who in the organisation has control, access, and editing rights to each site.

Can Individual Websites Still Have Their Own Design?

Each website still retains its own dashboard and can either share the theme and plugins of other sites in the network or have its own unique theme and design.

What Business Tyoes Can Benefit From WordPress Multisite?

WordPress Multisite is perfect for organisations that have multiple websites under their umbrella.

This could be a group with multiple brands, or a global business that requires individual websites for the multiple locations they operate in.

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