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.
A practical guide to launching a self-service Website-as-a-Service platform on WordPress, where customers sign up, pay, and get an auto-provisioned tenant with no manual admin.
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.
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.
Answer client questions about data handling with a clear data-isolation architecture: dedicated database per client, isolated media, per-client backups with retention, and clean export if they leave.
WordPress Multisite shares one database and one plugin set across every client. Here is how agencies get true per-client isolation, dedicated databases, and separate wp-content, on one standard WordPress install with GrabWP Tenancy Pro.
Standardize how your team spins up new WordPress client sites. A step-by-step provisioning checklist using GrabWP Tenancy so every project starts the same way, in minutes.
Running one WordPress install per client quietly multiplies your hosting bills, update cycles, and admin overhead. Here is how agencies consolidate a whole client portfolio onto one install with GrabWP Tenancy Pro, and what the cost structure actually looks like.
Stop logging into every client site to run updates and backups. See how a WordPress agency operates a whole fleet of tenants, pushing plugin and theme changes and portfolio-wide scheduled backups from one dashboard with GrabWP Tenancy Pro.
Spin up campaign and product-launch microsites in minutes by cloning a template tenant, then map a domain or path route. No new hosting account per launch.
Manage a multi-brand marketing portfolio from a single WordPress installation. Dedicated database per client, isolated wp-content, and one dashboard, with no data bleed between brands.
Logging into fifteen client WordPress sites one by one to run updates is a weekly tax on your time. Here is a freelancer maintenance workflow that pushes plugin, theme, and setting changes across every client site from a single admin.
A plugin update takes a client site down and they are messaging you now. Here is a freelancer recovery workflow that rolls one client site back to a working backup in minutes, without risking any of your other clients.
You built the client site inside your own setup. Now they want it on their hosting. Here is a clean freelancer handoff workflow that exports one client and restores it anywhere, with no lock-in.
Stop rebuilding WordPress from scratch for every client. Set up one polished starter site, then clone it in seconds for each new project with GrabWP Tenancy.
Step-by-step guide to creating a multi-tenant WordPress setup using the GrabWP Tenancy plugin. Get multiple isolated sites running from a single installation in minutes.