WPMU and WPMU DEV began with a concentration on a type of WordPress site called “WordPress Multi-User” (hence WPMU). WordPress Multi-User allowed you to build and run a network of sites from one WordPress installation.

WordPress Multi-User is now called WordPress Multisite. And we here at WPMU.org have moved on too. No longer do we focus solely on Multisite installations (though we still do that). We now focus on all types of WordPress sites – from the single installation on a shared hosting account to the million-site network spread over several different dedicated servers.

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