Too Late to install WordPressMU ??

  • egiblock

    (@egiblock)


    16 years, 11 months ago

    i’ve installed the newest wordpress on our server, and the response has been great. the only problem now is that everyone in the world wants their own “site”..

    the idea now more than ever is to integrate the active directory into not just one site, but all the sites, which is pointing me to the WordPressMU.

    my question is since the wordpress installation that i have now has just been for demo and testing (but could be used in a live environment, should i just put the MU version in place, and then link back to the existing one? or just remove all the WP installations and start from the bottom up (Start with MU and then install each blog/site).

    thanks for the guidance.

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  • stvwlf

    (@stvwlf)

    16 years, 11 months ago

    Hi
    First, WPMU has its own forum at http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/ with some very knowledgeable people on it.

    I co-admin one WPMU site, which has about 75 blogs/sites now, so have gotten a little experience with the product.

    The answer to your question is really up to you. If you are wanting an easy way to rapidly create new sites for people who are not real techies, the maint on a WPMU site is quite a bit less than on the equivalent # of standalone WP sites. Its not a perfect product but if what it offers matches well with what you are looking for, its a very good product indeed.

    It is the same core WP that you are used to, with an overlay of a management layer. Each site has its own set of WP tables, all in one database. There is definitely some learning curve but I didn’t find it very steep. It is the exact same WP you already know, just structured slightly differently.

    I recommend going with a subdomain installation. I started with a “folders” installation and later had to rebuild the whole installation as subdomains, to work with the domain mapping plugin, which allows sites to overlay their domain on top of the assigned subdomain. That folders vs subdomains can’t be changed once WPMU is installed.

    If you are on shared hosting you first want to determine whether your host allows virtual subdomains – that is, where you don’t need to create each new subdomain one by one – any subdomain on the domain, known or unknown, all point to the same root WPMU folder. Not all shared hosting hosts allow that.

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