Best Option for Multiple Blogs

  • Hello All

    Apologies first of all if this has been covered already – I have looked through the forums but couldn’t find the exact answer to my question.

    I was wondering if somebody could suggest the best installation option for me looking at my requirements:

    – Multiple Blogs to sit on the same domain (preferably through one installation as I think WPMU may be overkill?)
    – All of my blogs will have roughly the same design other than a different header.
    – They would need to sit in separate folders and be edited by different authors. For example, if my site was https://www.example.com, I would need blogs for https://www.example.com/blog/dave/, https://www.example.com/blog/tom/, https://www.example.com/blog/john/ etc etc.
    – Each user blog would just be linked from the same navigation on every blog

    Is this possible? Apologies if it’s a very simple concept!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    WPMU wouldn’t be overkill, IMO (and with 3.0, Multi-Site is built in).

    The header part would be fairly simple. If your theme allows for custom headers (like Twenty-Ten does), then you can just activate the one theme and each site can change their header.

    That said, the problem would be this:

    Each user blog would just be linked from the same navigation on every blog

    I saw someone came up with a way to list all sites on a network, but I forget where… Bah.

    Thread Starter duncanjriley

    (@duncanjriley)

    Thanks Ipstenu!

    What you say makes sense.

    I’m just really unsure of the route to choose.

    The reason I thought MU may be overkill is because it’s more targeted for large-scale sites who would have users sign up for blogs, administering them themselves (i.e. newspapers etc).

    For my project, I want to build a maximum of 10 blogs and provide logins for each of the 10 users to post to their own blog.

    I didn’t know whether to:

    a) Carry out 10 WordPress insallations into 10 subfolders (i.e. /blog/dave/, /blog/tom/, /blog/john/ etc as above
    b) Somehow adapt the Categories option to perform this operation
    c) use an alternative – like MU

    What do you think?

    p.s. as the project looms closer & closer, I’m not sure 3.0 is an option at present

    Thanks

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    The reason I thought MU may be overkill is because it’s more targeted for large-scale sites who would have users sign up for blogs, administering them themselves (i.e. newspapers etc).

    That’s incorrect ??

    WPMU is targeted for people who want to use WordPress to run multiple blogs/sites of WP off one install of the core code.

    That’s it.

    Use Multi-site. Then when you have to upgrade WP, or a plugin, it’s ONCE in one place ??

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