Enterprise-Wide Multisite Platform Migration and Segmentation for Content Management and Scalability

The client operates a comprehensive online knowledge platform with diverse content categories, currently powered by a legacy system. The existing site architecture leads to content clustering issues, making management inefficient and limiting market expansion. The client seeks to migrate from an outdated Content Management System to a modern, multisite architecture to facilitate organized content segmentation, cost-effective maintenance, and streamlined management across multiple subsites.

A large-scale digital content publisher managing multiple knowledge hubs and specialized content sites within a multisite framework to enhance organization, scalability, and manageability.

• Successfully migrate all existing content, files, images, and configurations from legacy system to the new multisite platform.
• Establish a scalable, maintainable multisite infrastructure allowing independent yet unified management of multiple content subsites.
• Implement unified site management features including shared themes, plugins, user access controls, banners, and settings.
• Enhance content management capabilities with improved editing tools, such as upgrading to a more advanced rich text editor.
• Optimize storage solutions for scalability and security, ensuring minimal downtime and high availability.
• Reduce long-term maintenance costs through centralized updates and management workflows.
• Ensure consistency in branding and user experience across all subsites.

• Comprehensive audit and cleanup of legacy code and content prior to migration.
• Deployment of a multisite architecture with replicated subsites sharing core files but maintaining individual databases.
• Custom content migration scripts for batch data transfer, including content types, images, plugins, and configurations.
• Tools for importing/exporting data using CSV files and command-line scripts.
• Implementation of shared themes and plugins to enable consistent branding and streamlined updates.
• Configurability of social media variables and banners for each subsite.
• Upgraded rich text editing with a scalable, customizable editor (e.g., CKEditor 5).
• UI elements customization and cleaning scripts to remove artifacts/errors post-migration.
• Centralized management dashboard for administrator control over all subsites.

• External social media platforms for configurable sharing components.
• Content delivery networks or cloud storage solutions for efficient media serving.
• Authentication and user access management systems for centralized user control.

• High scalability to accommodate future growth with minimal performance degradation.
• Security measures to protect sensitive content and user data, aligned with best practices.
• Minimal downtime during migration via phased or batch data transfer.
• Performance optimization for fast load times across all subsites.
• Maintainability through modular architecture and centralized management.

Implementation of the multisite platform will enable the client to manage multiple content categories more efficiently, reduce long-term maintenance costs with centralized updates, and enhance user experience through unified branding and improved content management tools. The migration is expected to improve site manageability, scalability, and security, supporting expansion into new markets and increasing content delivery effectiveness.