Best way to handle multiple sub-domain blogs

  • My network of blogs is growing, but right now it’s still probably 75% one main blog with a bunch of related products acting as their own blogs on sub-domains.

    I was wondering really the best way to handle that type of system, mostly as far as adding/installing new blogs (products) as well as the dreaded updates from WordPress and the plugins.

    Right now I manually go to each blog, but with 30+ products and growing, that is becoming quite cumbersome.

    I’ve seen a few old tips on running certain software, but I am wondering what the latest technique is to streamline that number of blogs running on sub-domains..

    Thank you!

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  • Are you running them all off multisite?

    That’s what this section of the forum is for.

    Thread Starter vanillaice

    (@vanillaice)

    No, I activated multisite but had an error with my sitemap plugin. Aside the error, does multisite work basically what I need?

    once you import all your existing sites into one install – yes.

    And there’s sitemap plugins that work with multisite.

    Thread Starter vanillaice

    (@vanillaice)

    Oh sweet, I will have to install it to check it out. I am tired of updating every blog.

    Is there a way to merge my current blogs into the multisite blog?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Just the old import/export routine.

    or the post on sillybean.net if you wanted to move over tables themselves. but try the built in export / import first.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I don’t care how much you paid me, if I don’t have to import users, I’m NEVER doing the tables again ??

    Thread Starter vanillaice

    (@vanillaice)

    Yea, this is an import of posts, no users. Will it change my permalink setup?… although not like it matters, for some reason my SERPS on the subdomains is brutal, but that’s a different topic for a different day

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Probably not. Usually you can keep them, the only trick is in moving them to the ‘same’ location (like if you have a second site installed in yourdomain.com/wordpress2 and you want to make a subsite with the SAME name, there’s some brief downtime for the switch).

    You can set permalinks individually on each site.

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