Title: switching blog type Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # switching blog type * [scottsp64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsp64/) * (@scottsp64) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-blog-type/) * My brothers and I are developing a website together at [http://www.fattriplets.com](http://www.fattriplets.com). When we first started we created three separate blogs, one for each of us. We have decided that it would be more useful to have one main blog that we each can post into. I don’t know what you call that (a community blog?). Anyway, I need to know how to create a multi-user blog that automatically includes the logged in user name in the post. Some specific questions are: * Do I have to reinstall WordPress to support that kind of blog? If not or if so, how do I do it? What is the easiest way to export our old individual blogs and import them into our one unified blog? * Thanks ahead of time. * Scott Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/) * (@cypher) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-blog-type/#post-178465) * WordPress inherently is designed to be a single person blogging software. There are a few people working on getting a multi-blog thing going. * Please search for “multi blog” on this forum for some directions. * Regards * [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/) * (@kafkaesqui) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-blog-type/#post-178466) * I think what Cypher meant was single “blog.” WordPress supports numerous users/ authors, but just one blog per installation. Since you can have multiple authors, that’s not much of an issue. For posts, the correct author is displayed automatically. And you wouldn’t necessarily have to install yet another copy of WordPress; you could just pick one of the installations you already have. * Merging three blogs into one is where you’re going to hit problems. For posts, if you download the table to a sql dump (that is, export from the database to a text file), you could edit the post IDs in the INSERT lines, changing them all to NULL; importing them this way would cause MySQL to automatically assign a new, incremented ID (thereby avoiding duplicates). But then you’ll have no connection to categories, or meta data (custom fields), or authors. And let’s not forget comments! * What you want can be done, but it involves a lot of preparation and manual editing before you perform a merge of this sort. Even if there’s not a lot of posts in the various blogs, etc. * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-blog-type/#post-178505) * It might be better just to start a new “merged” blog, with links to the previous three from the sidebar. That way you are down to just one for all of you to use, but still have the previous posts available. * Thread Starter [scottsp64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsp64/) * (@scottsp64) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-blog-type/#post-178963) * Thanks to everyone who replied. Now I feel really stoopid because I didn’t actually install WordPress, (my brother did) and I didn’t realize he had installed WP 3 times, once for each of us. Now that I realize that, I am aware of how stoopid my question must have looked. “How do I get my hammer to whack stuff??” I have now installed WordPress into the root directory of my development site [http://www.fattriplets.com/devsite](http://www.fattriplets.com/devsite) and I have some different questions, which I will post as new topics (After doing the appropriate research first). * Scott Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘switching blog type’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [scottsp64](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsp64/) * Last activity: [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/switching-blog-type/#post-178963) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics