Updated February 2025
Large organizations frequently have independent teams responsible for their own section of the company website. Sometimes, the organization may have multiple websites. WordPress Multisite allows you to deploy these independent sites within a single WordPress instance.
WordPress VIP’s multisite management allows you to reduce the complexity of administering multiple sites by providing multisite management capabilities from one common dashboard.
WordPress VIP’s multisite structure is built to reduce the logistical pain of handling multiple individual applications. It enables multiple sites within a single WordPress instance and database, with centralized control of code, accesses, plugins, and themes.
A multisite is ideal for organizations with:
- Multiple sites managed by the same people
- Multiple sites that share themes or plugins
- Split responsibilities for a site by directory structure
- Frequent new site creation
- Audiences in multiple languages
Benefits of multisite management on WordPress VIP
With easy website management, complete access level control, and optimized workflows and resources, WordPress VIP remains the best option for WordPress multisite setups and complex environments.
WordPress plugins and themes can be shared across sites easily. This helps create a streamlined experience for our customers who want to build a multisite configuration that perfectly suits their needs. It reduces development resources and delivers results faster.
The team at WordPress VIP listened to our customers about some of their biggest business challenges for multisite environments. Based on that feedback, we implemented a number of features that simplify multisite management regardless of your specific configuration.
With our network site management and launch tools, combined with features to extract specific network site data from a shared database, you can optimize the productivity of your team.
Let’s take a deeper dive into what makes up the WordPress VIP multisite platform.
Network Sites management and launch
We simplified the process to launch and manage network sites on WordPress multisite applications. From the Network Sites panel in the WordPress VIP Dashboard, you can search sites, filter by launch status, and initiate or resume the launch process.
Each network site within a WordPress multisite has its own launch status, rather than a single launch status for the entire environment. This allows you to manage and keep track of individual network sites with filters that increase insight and visibility.
From the Network Sites panel, customers have the ability to:
- Launch subdirectory network sites
- Resume a launch that was in progress
- Go back to a previous step as needed
- Check the DNS and TLS certificate status within the wizard
- Mark a site as launched
- Update already launched sites
The launch experience is further streamlined with some additional pre-launch checkpoints:
- The DNS step includes preflight checks to ensure that the DNS record for a domain is reachable and pointing to WordPress VIP.
- A TLS certificate step shows certificate-specific preflights checks, along with an option to provision a Let’s Encrypt certificate if needed.
- Automatic integration with key services, including Jetpack, to initiate search content reindexing following domain name changes.
These steps provide you with more flexibility and control on our platform, ensuring WordPress VIP’s multisite structure remains the best place to host a network site environment.
Download individual network site database backups
With greater flexibility and control in mind, we offer additional ways to configure data downloads from the WordPress VIP Dashboard for WordPress multisite applications. These support customer workflows in local development and data analysis.
Besides existing database export controls, WordPress multisite customers can now configure the download to include tables for a specific network site.
This allows data from a single site to be isolated for easier filtering, analysis, testing, and launch processes supporting everything from local development to data analysis.
Download specific tables from database backups
You can now choose specific tables to download—this works for both WordPress single site and multisite on WordPress VIP.
This feature saves time and offers a higher level of control and specificity over data for strategic usage like data analysis, testing, and launch.
Why choose WordPress VIP for your multisite management
WordPress VIP’s multisite management capabilities enable organizations with complex website structures to streamline the deployment, management, and ongoing administration of multiple web properties.
Network Site management tools give your administrators granular control over launching new sections of a single site, as well as launching additional sites. Enhanced database backup capabilities simplify the process of isolating specific data from your WordPress install, which makes it possible to filter, test, and analyze data with a tactical approach.
Learn more about the WordPress VIP platform and how it can support your organization’s multisite management needs.
