Multiple Facets of one blog

  • I’m trying to create a set of different blogs that cater to different audiences but some posts will be of interest to more than one audience.

    So suppose I own and host example1.com and example2.com on the same server. I want to create blogs blog1.example1.com, blog2.example1.com, blog3.example2.com, each blog having a seperate skin and theme. But I want to write a post and have it appear on either a single blog of multiple blogs and have it be the same post and not a duplicate. Any comments that are made on blog1 are also visible on blog3, any edits made to the post will be reflected on both blogs.

    Is there any way this can be done elegantly within wordpress? I know it’s technically feasible, all the blogs would share a common database and each blog would pull up a customized “view” of the database. But what would be the best way to support this?

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  • Pfffrrll, seems pretty difficult. How are you going to let domain2 connect to the domain1 mysql?
    If they are on the same domain you could use ‘category blogs’. Like ==> Blog 1 has category blog1 and the children of this category are only shown in blog1 …

    I think this would be very difficult in WordPress. You would be talking serious code changes that could make it difficult to upgrade in future.

    Categories are the best way. Keep it simple.

    Maybe MovableType that features built in multi-blogging supports this, it is a possibility I have not checked. Or code a bespoke solution from scratch.

    Perhaps a trick with a feed that fills blog2? I wouldn’t know how to set it up, but that could be something to look into.

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