Multiple Sites for Multiple Clients
For a while now I’ve been looking for a solution to a problem that has been plaguing our department for a long time. That is, we have numerous users (student organizations, faculty, etc) that want to have their own websites, yet they either don’t have the knowledge required to post the information they want, or when the people in charge change the site quickly falls into disarray. In the past we’ve allowed these users their own account on our web server with which they could do pretty much whatever they needed. The solution works, but especially in the case of changing people as soon as someone new takes over they can’t figure out what the last person did and even with the best of intentions the site becomes broken and unusually. In one particularly bad case a student group had tried installing a bulletin board but forgot about it. We still can’t get all the unwanted links out of Google from that one.
Finally I think I’ve found a solution to all these problems. I’m in the process of switching everyone to WordPress MU. This will allow them the control they need to make a site in whatever fashion they desire while at the same time give me more authority to handle obsolete sites with ease. Not a bad deal. We’ll be going full bore into in the Spring and I already can’t wait to see how it all turns out!
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