Syndicating content with WordPress

Have you ever had a situation where you needed the same content on multiple websites, with just one place to edit it? Maybe in a network of WordPress sites?

In this talk I will outline how we built a content syndication system for a network of WordPress sites, meaning that content required on all sites could be edited once and deployed out to one or all of the thousands of sites in the network.

I will talk about the technologies we used to accomplish the task, the development challenges that were involved and how we overcame them.

These systems are great for businesses which have lots of divisions, regions or franchises which need the same default content on each site.

Read more of the blog post: https://highrise.digital/blog/syndicating-wordpress-content-using-content-deployment

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1. Syndicating Content with WordPress Mark Wilkinson Co-founder & developer at Highrise Digital https://highrise.digital @wpmark
2. What is content syndication?
3. “ The act of syndicating a news feature by publishing it in multiple newspapers, simultaneously https://www.wordnik.com/words/syndication
4. “ The act of syndicating a post by publishing it in multiple websites, simultaneously https://www.wordnik.com/words/syndication
5. Syndication = Content deployment
6. tomd.co.uk
7. Project requirements • Low cost websites to advisory firms • Different levels of functionality • Different design options • Content compliance approved (regulatory requirements) • Content deployed to multiple sites • Lock-down content • Quick to build a new site
8. WordPress multisite
9. The content deployment (syndication) process
10. Content Master (primary site) Websites (receiving content) Publishing workflow
11. 2 plugins Deployed content Content deployment
12. Add settings to the receiving site
13. Add a site to deploy to
15. REST API endpoints
18. Processing a deployment - add/update • Authenticate the request & the data • Check if the post already exists - get its post ID for updating • Insert/update the post • Loop through taxonomy data and add/update • Loop through metadata as add/update • Store data about the posts source - post ID, source URL etc. • Store the deployment entry - post type in content master
21. Media https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-offload-media/
22. Other notable functionality • Site image packs • Campaign monitor integration • Social media integration • Publishing workflow
23. 1000+ sites 40,000+ deployed posts
24. Mark Wilkinson Co-owner of Highrise Digital WordPress developer @wpmark @highrisedigital https://highrise.digital
25. Questions ? Although not necessarily answers! @wpmark