how to create a website in under a minute..
or hundreds of websites in an hour. I use it as a mockup tool with clients to teach them to use WordPress.. and then customize their site layout and content. I’ve noticed that the city paper and post and courier here in Charleston also uses WPMU… try this from Photo Matt
Update 4/8/2020 – Sometimes I go back and clean up old posts based on the amount of traffic they receive. Since the original link is now dead because I no longer use the Windham Agency domain, I figured I’d explain what I was doing. I used to use a WordPress signup form to create client websites on the fly and map them to sub-domains until they were ready to be mapped to the client domain. This would allow a client to have a website up and running in just a couple minutes and give them the sandbox would could help teach them how to use WordPress. This worked out for a year or so, but what I found is that clients would inevitably want more and more features which would require custom plugins or code. This became unsustainable for a Multi-Site installation because some clients would drag down others. Now, after fifteen plus years of doing it, I’ve still found that it’s helpful to get a demo sub-domain site up and running day. I generally use a core set of plugins for most of the sites I build and maintain which keeps everything simple. The only time I’ve used WordPress Multi-Site in production is for a publisher who may need multiple domains, sub-domains, designs, access, and/or authors. At the time, I’m sure I was excited to discover how easy it was to spin up websites in under a minute.