Second blog

  • I know this was addressed for an earlier version of WordPress, but I’m hopeful that by 4.6 the issue of starting a second blog should have been made considerably easier to follow or achieve.

    Put simply I have just set up a WordPress-powered blog for my wife, using our own website. I want to set up another blog for myself on the same site. Can someone please let me know what the quickest, easiest and most reliable way of achieving that is?

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  • If you installed WordPress Multisite, you can create as many sub-blogs as you want, using one single WP installation.

    Each sub-blog is still independent to one another and behaves just like a default WP installation, but all are administered from the same Dashboard, using one single database.

    This is the quickest and simplest method of installing multiple blogs on the same domain.

    Thread Starter steveninaus

    (@steveninaus)

    Hello ThemeSumo. Thanks for the help so far.
    I have followed all the instructions as well as I can, and now have two sites listed on my Dashboard. However, when I choose to “visit” my ‘Reflections’ blog from the “my-sites” page I get a lot of unformatted text. If I choose “dashboard” the software tries to find files in ../reflections/wp-admin, which doesn’t exist.

    What have I done wrongly?
    Steven

    Thread Starter steveninaus

    (@steveninaus)

    Addendum to last comments on this them of multisite:

    Whether it was wise or not, I created “reflections” as a sub-directory of wordpress and copied all the other subdirectories of wordpress into that directory. That gave me access to most of the workings. However, I now have a “welcome” message which wordpress insists on calling “auto-draft” and if I click on “View post” from the ‘edit post’ screen I get an error message with the address line showing wordpress was trying to open the non-existent “auto-draft” in the reflections directory.

    Next issue in the sage:
    If I select “Add New” from the Dashboard of my second blog, provide a sub-directory as the URL for the site (e.g. …wordpress/decline), include a brief description and admin password, then click “Add Site” then WordPress looks for the “wp-admin” directory under the new site name (i.e. …/wordpress/decline/wp-admin), even though “decline” hasn’t been created.

    Plea to any developers who might be looking: can we please have a very simple UI to set up and activate multiple blogs on the one account?

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