Setting upWordpress Multisites for a New School Year*

john sutton | creative blogs

*for Wordpress MU Super Admins

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This is just one method

There are lots of different ways to set blogs up for a new school year. This is just one way. By following this method you will:

• Archive all existing blogs to a page• Set up fresh blogs for each class• Reorganise users to access correct blogs• Edit the links on the homepage

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Things to check first

Is your new blog template designed as you want it?

• Set up a new test blog using your template design:* Sites > Add New (making sure you select your class blog template);

• Check to see it has the right theme, links, widgets, logos and header;

• If anything needs changing, go to the dashboard of the template blog and edit the design.

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Step 1: Set up an archive page

From the dashboard of your homepage go to:Pages > Add New

Call the page “Archived blogs”

or something similar.

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Step 2: Edit the “Archived Blogs” page

Add hyperlinks to all of the current year’s blogs. Then publish the page

Note: The links to these blogs will still be on the homepage so you can do this in advance of year end and replace the links on the homepage when you are ready (see Step x)

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Step 2: Edit the “Archived Blogs” page

Once you have added all the hyperlinks to the current academic year’s blogs you can publish the page.Option: Edit publish date settings to make the archive page appear on 1st September.

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Step 3: Create new class blogs for next year

From the “Network Admin” menu go to:Sites > Add New

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Step 4: Edit the users for each blog

If you need to move users (such as child logins and teaching assistant logins etc), from the “Network Admin” menu go to:

Sites > All sitesFor each blog, click “Edit” then click on the “Users” tab and add users.Note: Children should be set as “Contributors”

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Step 5: Change the links on the homepage

As soon as you are ready for the new blogs to go live, remove the existing links on the homepage and add the new links. From the dashboard on the homepage:

Links > All LinksEither edit the existing links by adding the URL of the new blog, or delete the old links and add new ones.

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