Custom Domains for a WordPress SaaS: How Tenant Domain Mapping Works
How each customer of your WordPress SaaS gets their own domain, subdomain, or path. A practical guide to tenant domain mapping, routing, and symlink sync with GrabWP.
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How each customer of your WordPress SaaS gets their own domain, subdomain, or path. A practical guide to tenant domain mapping, routing, and symlink sync with GrabWP.
A technical decision guide to WordPress tenant database isolation. Compare shared MySQL prefixes, dedicated MySQL per tenant, and SQLite per tenant, and learn when each is the right call.
Learn how a template catalog plus clone-on-signup provisioning hands every new customer a finished starter WordPress site the moment they sign up, with no manual admin work.
Design per-tenant backup and restore for a fleet of client sites: granular restores, scheduling with per-tenant overrides, S3 offload, and WP-CLI automation.
How recurring billing works in a self-service WordPress WaaS, and how to pick the right payment provider between Polar.sh, WooCommerce, and regional adapters.
A practical workflow for giving each client site genuine isolation (separate data, code, and failure domain) from one WordPress install, without Multisite's shared database.
WordPress Multisite is the wrong tool for most client work. Here are the exact situations where Multisite hurts you, and the isolation-first alternative that fixes each one.
WordPress Multisite shares one plugin and theme layer across every subsite, so conflicts spread network-wide. Learn how per-tenant wp-content gives each client a genuinely separate plugin and theme stack.
When a service client leaves, hand them their WordPress site cleanly. Export the tenant's database and files, move to standalone hosting, and import with the free GrabWP Restore plugin. A no-lock-in offboarding guide for service providers.
Give every service client their own isolated WordPress login, plugin stack, and hardened settings without them ever seeing another client's data, all managed from one provider dashboard with GrabWP Tenancy Pro.
Stop rebuilding every client website from scratch. Build one standard service-site template tenant, clone it per client, map their domain, and deliver a consistent handoff every time with GrabWP Tenancy Pro.
Compare WordPress Multisite and multi-tenancy approaches. Learn the architectural differences, performance implications, and when to use each solution.