I’m trying to maintain a single blog but only show posts from a particular category for a certain host name :/
tomacco0,
It’s a bit challenge. Well, it is possible. As I understood it should be just one database and 3 blogs with different categories. I personally have such solution:
1. Install 3 wordpress blogs on each hostname and use the same wp-config.php for all 3 blogs. It will allow you to use 1 database for 3 blogs.
2. You’ll need some custom code changes to get only the category you want from the database for different hostname.
May be it would be easier just to install and maintain 3 different blogs.
Install WordPress.
Go multisite – Create A Network
Install Domain Mapping plugin to point domain names to server and to respective subblogs.
Automatically get recent posts from all sub-blogs in main site.