Multiple blogs with 1 set of shared resources

  • cckid

    (@cckid)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    Hi all,
    I’ve been searching for the answer to my question for a day or so and haven’t found anything that seems to do exactly what I want so I decided to post this question.
    Firstly, I consider myself a techie and I have been working with WP for over a year. Right now I have approximately 12 blogs that are on different domains that live in the same server and when it comes time to update them, it is a pain to do so as I have to update each WP install, update each set of plugins, etc.
    My question: Is it possible to have 1 WP installation that controls all these different blogs while at the same time giving the blogs the ability to maintain their identities? I have looked at WP MU, but it seems as though that only works if all the blogs are on the same domain (blog1.abc.com, blog2.abc.com, blog3.abc.com) and not on different domains (blog.abc.com, blog.xyz.com, blog.123.com).
    I have drawn up a sketch of what I mean in case I am not able to do it through words. Find the diagram here.
    Thanks for your help! I look forward to seeing your responses.

    cckid

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  • stevesmith1983

    (@stevesmith1983)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Thoughts that come to my mind are to either

    • use MU and use mod_rewrite to rediret the domain names (I don’t know if they all have to be on one domain)
    • use softlinks (ln -s) to link to the actual plugins directory, for example, which could be stored somewhere outside of all the sites

    Is it your own server?

    Edit: I’ve just had a look at my test installation of MU and it looks like you can have different domains, it’s just that when you first create each blog it asks for a subdirectory, but when you then go back and edit it you can change the domain.

    @mercime

    (@mercime)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/
    by none other than Donncha O Caoimh. Awesome!

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