Comments on: Multiple WordPress Blogs

By: matsubokkuri

matsubokkuri — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:07:14 +0000

I wrote how to manage multiple blogs with small changes like this article.
http://matsu.tymy.net/enblog/2.....ne-server/

My approach is intended for building multiple blogs each path of URL.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:40:17 +0000

If created a script that does this pretty much and makes life much easier for the administrator. It includes and admin interface and an installer. Let me know what you think.

Glenn

By: andre

andre — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:27:49 +0000

great info. I definitely have to reread this a few times to get it in my head lol (newbie here) but for the most part got exactly what you were saying. Thanks for sharing!

By: kristarella

kristarella — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:55:43 +0000

Thanks Charity. That’s basically why I did this. I don’t want to be updating 5 WP file sets plus plugins!

By: Charity

Charity — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:57:50 +0000

Wow, you are thorough! ;) I think I’m gonna have to read this at least twice more to fully comprehend lol!

I’m much like you – I have a hard time understanding all the configurations, what they do, and how everything works together in terms of multiple installations/databases, etc. This looks like a discovery that could be very useful though! I’m already running 5 separate installations of WP and upgrading has become a dreaded task. Nice work!

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By: Bob Johnsen

Bob Johnsen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:06:00 +0000

Kristarella,

Everything is working fine – thanks for the help.

My host provides CPANEL for my site, as do many other hosts.
It’s a simplle matter of adding a subdomain from that control panel.

I wanted to use just one database to be shared by each blog.

So, the mod I’ve made to wp-config.php allows me to use a single install of WordPress, a single database and still allow reading and writing unique posts for the main domain and each of its subdomains.

The code can be downloaded by cliking on my name. If it opens up any can of worms such as security issues, is beyond my knowledge, so use at your own risk.

Thanks again.

Bob

By: kristarella

kristarella — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:47:18 +0000

You’re welcome Bob.

I’m not sure how it works on other web hosts. NearlyFreeSpeech.Net is set up such that you create a membership, under that membership you can create accounts (essentially funds that pay for your usage). Then, you create “sites”, for which the address is automatically sitename.nfshost.com. To each site you can assign “aliases”, which are generally your domain names.

The reason for all that preamble is that applying subdomains might be different for every web host.
What I did is I made a site called “blogs” then I gave it aliases haiku.kristarella.com and schizography.kristarella.com. All aliases for one site use the same root folder. So really it was a matter of clicking the “add alias” button and typing the name.
It’ll be different for other web hosts, but I think decent ones should allow you to apply several address to one site.

By: Bob Johnsen

Bob Johnsen — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:11:06 +0000

Thanks, Kristarella – that clears thing up.

How did you get your subdomains to “point” to the WP domain?

After I figure that out, I’m going to modify wp-config to point to different tables (based on the prefix) instead of different databases – hopefully!

Thanks again.

Bob