I’m really pleased to be a speaker at WordCamp Toronto 2014. If you use WordPress and have not been to a WordCamp, you should plan to attend one. WordCamps are great events at which to learn a lot about WordPress and meet people interested in and knowledgeable in WordPress.  We’ll be having one in Ottawa in the spring.

My talk this year will be about using WordPress multisite to create multilingual sites:

Multisite for Multilingual

This talk is about creating a multilingual WordPress site using WordPress multisite. The talk will cover: the basics of setting up multisite, some plugins to make it easier to create a multilingual site, pros & cons of using multisite for multilingual sites, and some tips and tricks to help with your sites.

Hope to see you there!

This post is a quick summary of how to enable multisite on your WordPress install.  You should be starting from a fresh WordPress install, anything else can cause issues.

For a complete description of multisite and setting up multisite see the great reference created by Mika Epstein & Andrea Rennick:

http://halfelf.org/ebooks/wordpress-multisite-110/

1) Enable Multisite in WordPress

In your wp-config.php file, right before the line /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ add:

define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’,true);

Save!

2) Click on the “Tools” menu item in the dashboard.

You should now see a new item “Network Setup”.

Click on “Network Setup”, and complete the Create a Network of WordPress Sites page.  If you are not sure about the options, see the ebook above.

3) You will get a page that looks something like this after clicking install.  Follow the 3 steps on the page to complete the setup. NOTE!!! Your settings will be different from the ones shown below.

Login to your site and you now have a network of sites or “multisite”.

There are many config settings that should be checked before using your site, see the ebook for details if you are not familiar with configuring a network of sites.