A few day ago I was asked to explain how to use the Yet Another Multi Site Manager plugin for WordPress Multi Site. Usually abbreviated to YAMM, the Yet Another Multi Site Plugin allows one WordPress Multi Site installation to be used by two or more domain names. It uses one domain name as the primary domain for the installation and maps the other domain names onto that primary installation such that multiple sites can be registered as subdirectories of any of the mapped domains. For example, if you have two domains, domain-one.tld and domain-two.tld, then you could register sites of site-one.domain-one.tld and site-two.domain-two.tld without the bother of setting up multiple addon domains using your server control panel.
Of course, the biggest benefit of using one WordPress installation for multiple domain names is space saving – no need to install multiple WordPress blogs when one installation will let you create millions of subdomain sites of multiple domain names.
A useful little plugin with one big weakness: there are no instructions for it. No body, anywhere, has written any real documentation for the plugin. That is, until today.
There is an official site for the plugin but the instructions are incomplete. They will help you to install it but not to use it; hence the question asked by Amit in a comment to the JournalXtra guide to Activating WordPress 3 Multi site.
So for all the Amits loose on the web, looking for a guide to YAMM, I hope this little YAMM installation and set-up guide helps restore a bit of sanity to your web life. Enjoy!
As I said in an earlier post (this one), WordPress Multi Site is the WordPress Multi User part of WordPress 3.0. It is a hidden part of WordPress 3.0 and has to be activated manually with a a few edits to a WordPress installations wp-config.php file. You must have web server file access to activate it. The instructions are easy to follow and you should be able to get WordPress Multi Site activated inside of 10 minutes work. The method is…
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