how to identify a site running MS?

  • I’m trying to develop the best strategy with a new project and I’m unsure if I should use wordpress or wordpressMS. There is a site that delivers content in a similar way to what I’m looking for and I suspect it’s on one of the two platforms.

    Is there an easy way to tell? Is there a footprint that will show that it’s MS instead of regular wordpress?

    Thanks in advance.

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  • What kind of site are you trying to build?
    Do you even know if the site is built on WordPress?
    Can you tell me the site?

    Usually I check for the mu-plugins folder, but these days it’s not a given.

    Thread Starter lpspider

    (@lpspider)

    Thank you for the reply.

    The site will be a political activism/journalism website. The content will be primarily user-generated through the blogs (and forum). Right now I’m unsure if I should run one blog with multiple users, several blogs (based on sub-topics) with approved users[MS], or allow users to have their own blog [MS](and manually approve index-page content).

    Ideally in my set-up, all users would have their own blogging platform, but content that 1) gets the most views, votes, likes, etc or 2) gets manually promoted reaches the front page.

    I’m sure it’s built on wordpress (unless their trying to make it appear so). The login page goes to wp-admin. The site is alternet.org.

    Thanks for your help.

    The login page goes to wp-admin.

    Then it’s wordpress. And as near as I can tell, it’s a single install.

    Some people call blog posts “blogs” which is incorrect. Multisite makes separate sites with separate admin areas.

    Unless you really need the users separated in the backend, you can do it all in a single site. Promoting content to the front page based on views or other criteria can still be done in a single site. In fact, it’s easier in a single site.

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