One admin login for three blogs

  • tortuga

    (@tortuga)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    I’m putting together a new website but I’m a complete WordPress (PHP and MySQL) noob. I’ve managed to sort out how to do the basics but I’m starting to get confused the more I read. I could use some advice on my site setup.

    What I want to end up with:

    • Three separate-topic blogs and a few other static pages all in one domain with one database.
    • The ability to log in once and edit everything – I will be the sole author of all three blogs.
    • A common theme running across the entire site with some minor differences between the three blogs.

    What I’ve done so far:

    • Installed WP in three domain sub-folders:
    • I have moved the blog1 index.php file to the root of the domain so that it acts as my home page. Everything works so far.

    What I need advice on:

    • Is it possible to create one admin login so that I can edit all three blogs from one place? If so, is the way I’ve set things up so far compatible? Where do I find instructions for doing this?
    • To include the minor theme differences on the three blogs, do I just create extra CSS files that contain these differences and reference them from within each blog, more or less the same way it works with HTML? Or is there another approach that works better with WordPress?

    Many thanks for helping me find my way!

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  • runnycustard

    (@runnycustard)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    did you ever find this out?
    I am interested in doing something similar.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 12 months ago

    For three blogs one admin, use WordPresMU (or when 3.0 comes out, Multi-Site).

    For the themes, make one master (parent) theme and then make child themes with the CSS tweaks for your blogs.

    Diane Bourque

    (@dianebourque)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    I agree with ipstenu – WordPress MU is the only solution here.

    Thread Starter tortuga

    (@tortuga)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Thank you Ipstenu for the insight. I’ll keep an eye out for Multi-Site.

    runnycustard, I didn’t solve the problem. For now I have it set up with a main blog and two sub-blogs on the same domain and I just log into each of the blogs separately. It’s ugly and I don’t recommend it, although it functions. But I really couldn’t make heads or tails out of the WordPressMU codex which is written for an entirely different audience making it nearly impossible for a nube like me to sort out what about using WordPressMU mattered to me and what didn’t apply to my small-potatoes situation. (Way too much information!) It read as total overkill at every turn so I abandoned the idea. I hope Multi-Site turns out to be more along the scale of what I need and can comprehend.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    13 years, 11 months ago

    You can use Multisite in 2.9.2 – http://mu.wordpress.org/

    Or if you’re daring, grab the 3.0 release of WP regular, which has MS built in 😉

    Get the nightly build – http://wordpress.org/download/nightly/

    Create a network – http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

    Thread Starter tortuga

    (@tortuga)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for the information Ipstenu! From your comments I assume that Multisite is now becoming an integrated part of regular WP. If that is the case I’ll wait a little bit until it has become well-established and then upgrade. I’m not very daring where WP is concerned.

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