Multiple WordPress blogs

Although I haven’t been able to figure out exactly how to implement this on my own site, I’ve found something that seems to do what you’re needing. Take a look at this tutorial and the results in this demo blog. Hope that helps. If you’re able to get this working I’d appreciate some tips. 🙂

There isn’t a built it way to do this, however, you can accomplish this with a little change to a blog template.

Here is what to do:

• Create two pages for each individual blogs.
• Create two categories with the same name as the pages
• Copy the blog template and name it ‘multi-blog.php’
• Open the template PHP file and change the title at the top to the new template. should look like
  

  /*
  Template Name: multi-blog
  */

  (this will make it show in the page templates)

• Lastly we need to change the way it searches for posts. This is done further down in your new multi-blog.php file. Add the following two lines

  $query_string = “&category_name=”.$post->post_title;
  query_posts($query_string);

  before this line

  <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

  It should look like this:

  $query_string = “&category_name=”.$post->post_title;
  query_posts($query_string);

  <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

• Lastly, assign this new template to the your blog pages by editing the page.
• Create posts under each category and they should show up blog.

What this does is display any post where the category of the post and page name are identical. In theory, if you had two blogger who wanted to share a post you could select both categories and the post is shared in-between them. I find this nice simple solution to cross referencing products by manufacture, usage, etc… pages.

Let me know if it worked for you! dereka@infinite3.com