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WordPress includes a well-defined workflow for running a blog with multiple contributors in various roles. It works great; But what if you are using WordPress to run a 1,000 page hierarchical site? Well… the workflows available are a bit limited … Continue reading WordPress Workflows Expanded →

BuddyPress is a social networking package built on WordPress. A plugin, it enables features such as user groups, discussion forums and private messaging. In this presentation, we’ll discuss BuddyPress installation and configuration, as well as how BuddyPress can be extended … Continue reading Social Networking with BuddyPress →

NorthPoint has had many years of experience with implementing WordPress sites for many of the world’s leading organizations. Most recently, NorthPoint implemented a WordPress multisite for nine blogs for a leading, global media company. Among the nine blogs, three blogs … Continue reading Save Your Code: One Codebase, 9 Blogs with WordPress Multisite Using Sub-domains and Subdirectories →

In brief, I would like to speak about three different aspects: 1) how we develop for Multisite to save development-time 2) how we (attempt) to reduce page load times for all of our WordPress development and 3) how we use … Continue reading Developing for a (relatively) high-traffic WordPress Multisite install using GitHub →