One install, 14 blogs, assigned to different users – possible??

  • WDJD

    (@wdjd)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    I have a 3.0 install. New to WP. I am seeing if I can move an existing site that has 14 blogs over to WP. What I want is pretty darn basic. I want to move all 14 blogs over to one singular install so that everything is managed together, and then be able to add 14 users to WP and assign them to their corresponding blogs. From all my searching it seems that WP can’t do this. Which just baffles me.

    I saw this thread here, YES I searched before posting:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-blogs-19?replies=4
    …where moderator “Samuel” just shut him down and locked the thread. Well excuse me Samuel, but his question was not answered, and your actions were just plain rude. Why did you not just answer him? You claimed he asked the same question in a previous thread, but he was asking about a 2.9 install in that one. Why so rude, why so rude? If you had actually bothered to answer him, I would not be having to create yet another thread on the forums. You just prevented the people like me that follow good netiquette in searching before asking from having to add yet more clutter to the boards. Now I have the identical question…

    Now hopefully someone with a little more patience and politeness can help me with this question before you tell me that this has been asked before and to search the forums before posting 😐

    Thanks.

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  • Roy

    (@gangleri)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

    What used to be WP MU (multiuser) is now integrated in the ‘normal’ WP in which you can create a “network”.

    Thread Starter WDJD

    (@wdjd)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks Roy. I had already looked at that but it’s hella confusing. It seems like it’s more for creating new unique sites, not just additional blog pages. When I make a chage, such as a theme adjustment, or adding a plugin, I don’t want to be doing it 14 times. Can you speak to this?

    And that is a truly enormous amount of work, which means a huge margin for error, just to accomplish a most-basic CMS function.

    This really should be as simple as: New Page > Page Type > Blog > Assign users.

    Roy

    (@gangleri)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    It’s adding one line to WP-config and the rest from the WP dashboard. Indeed, you create subsites, but plugins, themes, etc. are all updated, etc. centrally.

    Thread Starter WDJD

    (@wdjd)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    OK, so I have to create a menu structure for each and every site, and every time I make a change, I have to make that change 14 times. Correct?

    Roy

    (@gangleri)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    I don’t know what menu structure you mean, but each subsite gets its own ‘dashboard’ which looks the same as yours, but users of course have less right. Like I said, plugins can be updated centrally. When all subsites use the same theme, the same here.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    You claimed he asked the same question in a previous thread, but he was asking about a 2.9 install in that one.

    the feature for multiple blogs wasn’t available in 2.9.

    Now, you said above you wanted to merge multiple separate blogs into one install. the multisite feature does this. You’ll have a network of blogs in one spot with only one site to upgrade, one set of themes & plugins. each blog will still be independant, like wordpress.com.

    If you want a common navigation menu between them all, that’s a different question. 😉

    Thread Starter WDJD

    (@wdjd)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Ok, so you can’t have a common navigation menu. So you can’t _really_ have WP site with multiple blogs. Sorry, I thought it said 3.0 not 0.3. 😐

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Ok, so you can’t have a common navigation menu.

    That’s not what I said. 🙂 I said that was a different question and all sites were separate.

    Note this questions has been asked a few times, and answered with a few different methods.

    Hardcode it in the theme. There’s the simplest way.

    Thread Starter WDJD

    (@wdjd)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Are there themes that do this already?

    It just seems that if you want a simple blog, WP is great, but if you want a CMS, fuggedaboutit. Which then just baffles me, because I decided to give WP a go after see comparisons between Joomla, Drupal and WP with WP coming out the winner. Yet both Drupal and Joomla can do this out of the box.

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    No, the theme out there pull in a menu specific to that blog only.

    It’s a five minute edit to whatever theme you want.

    Can you describe, though, exactly what kind of common menu you want? I’m trying not to send you off in the wrong direction.

    Again, the multisite feature in wordpress is almost identical to running your own personal version of wordpress.com. Your original post said you wanted 14 different blogs.It does that.

    Thread Starter WDJD

    (@wdjd)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    I have an existing website with 14 blogs. I want to move that to a CMS so the blog owners can take care of things without my intervention. So I thought of recreating it all within WP. So when people navigate the site, it needs to appear as one site, not many. If I make a change, I don’t want to be making that change 14 times. And within a year we may have 100 blogs, so it really needs to be very automated.

    Thread Starter WDJD

    (@wdjd)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Is that what you needed to know?

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Yes, you can make it all appear as one site.

    If I make a change, I don’t want to be making that change 14 times. And within a year we may have 100 blogs, so it really needs to be very automated.

    It really depends on what you’re changing and where. Theme background color? One file.

    Thread Starter WDJD

    (@wdjd)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Well, if I move the position of pages, or add pages, take them away, what then?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 7 months ago

    You mean you want the same navigation bar across multiple sites on your install?

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