One installation for multiple blogs (several loops?)

crimsonemperor
(@crimsonemperor)

18 years, 1 month ago

I’ve been progressively scanning through the forums for a topic on this but, surprisingly, haven’t come across one. Usually you guys have already answered the problem 😉

I need one WordPress installation to post to multiple blogs. Example layout:

Home
–category 1
–cagtegory 2
–etc.
Journal
–category 1
–cagtegory 2
–etc.
Work
–category 1
–cagtegory 2
–etc.

So it’s got multiple tiers, pretty much the same as having different blogs on the same website.

I’ve heard that this can be done by creating new loops for each blog (I’m not particularly certain what a loop is). Then I’d have to use subcategories for each tier (Home, Journal, Work, whatever else) and hide the other lists of categories on the sidebar. This sounds a complicated but if it’s the only way, I’m game.

I’m not exactly what one could call a power WordPress user but I have had experience tweaking the PHP to get some different results.

Many thanks for your help! It really is appreciated.

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Chris_K
(@handysolo)

18 years, 1 month ago

Don’t have an answer, but can help with your question about “The Loop”: http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop That’s probably where you want to start.

moshu
(@moshu)

18 years, 1 month ago

WP doesn’t have the ability for “multiple” blogs.
If that’s what you need – see http://mu.wordpress.org. (mu= multi user). And we do NOT support that software in this forum.

As you have put it I don’t understand either your question about The_Loop.

On the other hand – if it is about one blogger – you can set up one single WP install with multiple categories and sub(child) categories. And you don’t even have to know what the Loop is 🙂

Thread Starter crimsonemperor
(@crimsonemperor)

18 years, 1 month ago

Ooo, many thanks! I haven’t heard of MUWP until now! I’ll check it out (probably install it tonight) and see if it sorts things out for me.

Thanks for the quick responses!

danprocter
(@danprocter)

18 years, 1 month ago

Hi, Im a day old when it comes to bloggs so please bear with me 🙂

i think my challenge is similar to that of above – dont know if i need to set up categories better or muwp?

basically customer runs seminars and splits the attendees of these seminars up into groups.

he wants all attendees to go to a page where there is one general blog that everyone can view – you know this is what im thinking today in general blog –

on the same page (maybe a banner or link in the side banner)there are links to other blogs on other subjects related to the groups he has created from all attendees

eg marketing group
sales group
admininstration group

he wants to have security on these other blogs so that only those within the group can read the blog or post comments

am i dreaming

or is this more a forum than a blog?

Thanks so much for you help – be gentle 🙂

ps im not sure if this will confuse the issue as i have set it up poorly – but the blog address is http://blog.northshoreinternet.com.au/

Dan

Thread Starter crimsonemperor
(@crimsonemperor)

18 years, 1 month ago

Well, when I’m done fooling around with MUWP and hopefully get it to work then I hope I can give you some help.

jbhelfrich
(@jbhelfrich)

18 years, 1 month ago

I actually have a similar problem. I’m just setting up WordPress after trying some solutions that were really more complex then I needed, so I’m still pretty new to the software.

I have three domains: a professional site, a political ranting site, and a personal site. I would like the first two to echo automaticaly to the third–posts at least, and if comments would copy as well I’d be overjoyed–and be able to post to the third site as well. I’m planning on doing a seperate install of wordpress for each, but haven’t decided yet if it should be one database or three. I suspect I can do this with triggers if the WordPress code wouldn’t be hopelessly confused, but I’m not sure if the trigger functionality in MySQL is advanced enough yet. Anyone have any ideas?

podchef
(@podchef)

17 years, 3 months ago

jbhelfrich, this is exactly what I am trying to do. Did you have any joy in setting this up?

I actually want to feed two blogs and a forum to a third blog–a central point–where all my clients and contacts can go to get the information from the other three entities.

Does anyone have any brilliant ideas how to do this with WP?