You may want to look at http://mu.wordpress.org – for multi user (=MU) blog install.
With the WP that is dowanloadable from here and is supported in this forum – you must have as many installs as many users.
Wow! that was quick. Thank you very much for your quick and very clear answer.
Now at least I know that I didn’t misunderstand the installation concepts although I really am a newbie.
I guess that whether I should use “WordPress MU” is a matter of convenience, since I don’t anticipate creating blogs for more than a handful of users. The overhead of approximately 4MB per user seems small enough to avoid the complexity of installing and maintaining “WordPress MU”.
Or… is “WordPress MU” easy to install and maintain as WordPress?
Also, is it true that I don’t need a separate database for each blog – even for WordPress SU (single user)?
Thanks,
Lynn
Also, is it true that I don’t need a separate database for each blog – even for WordPress SU (single user)?
This is correct, but you do need a different table_prefix for each blog. Look in the wp-config-sample.php file.
In answer to the other questions, MU is a bit more complex to work with, although I don’t have much experience with it so I can’t say how difficult or easy it is.
And yes, it is *possible* to use at least a partially shared set of SU files for multiple blogs. However, it requires some creativity and hand editing of the wp-config files, or some carefully done symbolic linking, if you are using a unix-type host. Really, it’s not worth the trouble for only a small number of bloggers, but it is possible. And if you have enough bloggers to make it worthwhile to share files between them, then MU is probably preferable anyway.
