WordPress Ideas » Topic: One install. Many Blogs

Jen Mylo on "One install. Many Blogs"

Jen Mylo — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:56:12 +0000

WP and MU will be merging in a future version, but in the meantime the way to go about this is with MU.

Duane Storey on "One install. Many Blogs"

Duane Storey — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:47:06 +0000

I wrote about something similar on my blog last night. If you're up for a challenge, try it out:

http://www.duanestorey.com/2009/05/one-wordpress-install-multiple-sites/

I managed to get a few sites to dynamically use one WordPress install. Because the .htaccess tricks each site to think they are the only one (everything is at /wp-content/) it shouldn't break plugins. There are a few problems with it, such as Google XML sitemaps tries to write to the root WP install, which doesn't really work. But I might try and turn it into a simple plugin, taking some ideas from the Virtual Multiblog implementation as well (which is similar, although slightly different).

DjZoNe on "One install. Many Blogs"

DjZoNe — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:34:16 +0000

You can hanalde multiple domains,
with WordPress MU + MU Multi-Site plugin, by the way...

Steven on "One install. Many Blogs"

Steven — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:19:37 +0000

I also like the way Virtual Multiblog works and would love to see it included into the WP core. It's a lightweight solution which will work for many without to much hassle.

http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia/features/virtual-multiblog/

Dgold on "One install. Many Blogs"

Dgold — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:49:07 +0000

It's a great feature. I want to see it in WP.

For similar ideas & how to implement, check out WP-Hive, and Virtual Multi-Blog. These techniques accomplish it with not-very-much code. It is surprising how simply they do it. So I think this magic feature could be added to WP without a lot of extra bulk, and would have great benefits for everyone expanding your web empire beyond 1 single blog, yet continue to use just 1 code base (1 thing to upgrade).

IonicStorm on "One install. Many Blogs"

IonicStorm — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:12:21 +0000

Yes its a great idea. I would be happy to see this in the next release! =)

Donnacha on "One install. Many Blogs"

Donnacha — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:39:38 +0000

I would strongly welcome this.

hundsim on "One install. Many Blogs"

hundsim — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:50:28 +0000

And I wouldn't mind having the blogs sharing some selected plugins. Such of waste of time updating the same five plugins for ten blogs.

huebi on "One install. Many Blogs"

huebi — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:30:31 +0000

I would be satisfied if the wp-admin folder and the wp-include folder can be shared by every blog, i'm now running 4 of them and have 4 wp-admins and 4 wp-includes with exactly the same files....

Michael Fields on "One install. Many Blogs"

Michael Fields — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:26:52 +0000

This feature would rock!
Severely :)