multiple blogs

  • dozer

    (@dozer)


    21 years, 5 months ago

    I’ve been reading about multiple blogs on the wiki, which is something I want to do. I currently have one blog and want to add a new one. I will have two different blog folders with two different installations of WP, changing the $table_prefix prefix of the wp-confix file in the new folder to something other than ‘wp_’. What I’m wondering, since I already have the wp files set up in the current directory, blog, do just copy over everything from blog to blog1? Do I need to navigate to the install file in the new directory, blog1 to complete the new install? or do I just copy the files over and change the wp-config? Hopefully someone who knows the exact sequence of what I need to do can lay it down in dummy proof verbage. thanks in advance.

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  • Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    21 years, 5 months ago

    Treat this new blog as if you don’t have the old one.
    Upload the files, complete wp-config.php as you have said then run install.
    There is no need to copy files over, though you could do that later if you wanted for css, layout etc.

    Thread Starter dozer

    (@dozer)

    21 years, 5 months ago

    gotcha! thanks for the quick response. will try it in the morning…….
    dozer

    Thread Starter dozer

    (@dozer)

    21 years, 5 months ago

    yes, worked like a charm.

    holocron

    (@holocron)

    21 years ago

    Did you use the same database or a new one?

    If a new one did you still need to change prefixes?

    Ming

    (@ming)

    21 years ago

    If you use a new database you won’t need to change the prefix.

    WP calls the tables by database name -> table prefix. So as long as the databases are different it won’t reference the same table.

    Personally, I still change the prefixs. It makes no difference to WP and when you backup your database it’ll have a more descriptive name.

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