BALTON CP: Corporate Websites | Integrating Efficiency with Simplicity Share: AlignMinds Technologies Score Awaiting client review n/a Date Published 3 June 2019 Reading Time 2-Minute Read Design and develop a network of multiple websites that can be managed by each department of the company independently. About the Project Our client Balton CP Ltd is a British company with an international presence in Agribusiness, Technology, Energy and project management. Balton CP Ltd drives its regional business development and growth through its subsidiaries established in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Zambia, Ghana and Nigeria. The Challenge Due to the peculiar nature of their business, Balton CP ltd recognized the need for developing and maintaining a separate website for each of their subsidiaries. The challenge was to design and develop a network of multiple websites that can be managed by each department independently. However, Balton CP then decided to have a central point of web management for their subsidiary websites and have a common theme for all of them, thereby allowing their subsidiaries to manage their own web content if needed. The Solution Since there was a need for multiple WordPress websites that are in the same industries having the same focus/purpose/goals and the same design principles, WordPress Multisite was the suggested solution. The web admin for Balton CP website is set as the network administrator login. Each of the eight subsidiaries is also set up as multisite on the same instance of WordPress, with user logins to each site with editor only privileges. So users at each subsidiary could log into just their website to make any needed changes, without affecting the other sites. The SUPER ADMIN has all rights and can work on all nine sites from the network dashboard. The technologies we used to develop the solution included WordPress (Multisite), PHP, MySQL jQuery 1.10.2 and JavaScript. Results The solution developed by our team helped Balton CP to have a single network of websites managed by the respective web administrators. The main components and theme of each website are now under the control of the super admin of the main website.