It;s not MU. MU was a separate program. Even though the functionality is now nbuilt in, it;s multisite.
(I’m gettign picky becasue it;shard to distinguish peopel who *are* actually running older verison of MU verses people who are running multisite)
this part:
I just read that setting up your blog for the use of MU can be difficult if it has already been running for more than a month.
The only difficulty is this: it won;t let you pick subfolders. That’s it. If you want subdomains, then there’s absolutely NOTHING stropping you.
(after you make sure your webhost actually supports subdomains. Cuz them not supporting it will stop you.)
you can enable it at any time, but really – why not just turn it on now? You can make whatever test blogs you like. Nobody’s going to see it from the main site unless you link to them.
That’s true, I can just enable it now anyway. That also gives the advantage that I can test it through while the site is not launched as yet.
One other thing I read though, was the following:
While permalinks will continue to work, the main blog (i.e. the first one created) will have an extra entry of blog, making your URLs appear like domain.com/blog/YYYY/MM/POSTNAME
I currently have it set so that individual posts are named domain.com/1234-post-title.html
So would that mean that if I enable multisite now I would get urls like domain.com/blog/1234-post-title.html?
Cant I remain to use permalinks like domain.com/1234-post-title.html (so without /blog) even though I run multisite (with subdomains)?
Stop and read that more carefully. 😉 That information is ONLY FOR SUBFOLDERS. And it only affects the MAIN site.
you want subdomains.
It will not stuff /blog/ on your main site.
Hi Andrea. Sorry for the late response, but I would still like to ask you about your answer (if possible).
You say that it only affects the main site. The thing is that I do want one main site (in English) under http://www.mydomain.com and then some different languages under subdomains such as nl.mydomain.com and de.mydomain.com.
So in the case that I would actually use the main site together with some subdomains, would I have the main site under http://www.mydomain.com/blog/123-post.html or would it also be possible to have the main site under http://www.mydomain.com/123-post.html?
Again, you will NOT have /blog/ in your URL if you pick subDOMAINS.
You will get http://www.mydomain.com/123-post.html?
You keep completely missing the part where I said if you pick subdomains you will not get /blog/ in your permalinks.
Ah, I’m sorry. Well, thank you so much!
I hope that in a years time my video blog rocks the world, and that will then partly be because of you! 🙂
