WP collaborative blog: Taxonomies? Custom Content Types? Categories? WPMS?

  • mhulse

    (@mhulse)


    12 years, 2 months ago

    I need a kick in the right direction here.

    After reading this article:

    Don’t Use WordPress MultiSite

    I have opted to setup one “site” and use Custom Post/Content Types, taxonomies (perhaps tags) and categories to separate and organize ~15 individual bloggers.

    Before I commit to anything, I need your advice.

    What would be the best way, in terms of organization, to setup a “collaborative blog” using one install of WP?

    I want all of my blogs to be structured and look/feel the same.

    The data will be shared between blogs and there will most likely be all of the bloggers posts on the homepage.

    Optimally, I would like the ability for each blogger to have a way to organize their posts (for example, categories that don’t appear in another blogger’s posts via the admin).

    With all that said, keeping in mind that I am new to WP, do any of you pros have any advice for me? My main concern is structure… I really want to choose the best route for keeping each blogger happy and organized.

    How would you setup a collaborative blog with WP?

    Many thanks in advance!

    Cheers,
    Micky

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  • Thread Starter mhulse

    (@mhulse)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    Hmmm, I should probably also add:

    I am migrating from ExpressionEngine.

    Currently, each blogger has their own blog “theme” (not look/feel… just it’s more of a catch line or blog subtitle).

    For example, one blogger has a blog called “Close to home with Doug Dooglas”. Another blogger has a blog named “A-team with Suzy Jenkins”.

    Part of me wonders if WPMS would be the best options… It’s just that I want these blogs to share same look/feel/theme/plugins/other.

    I am also wondering if maybe just sorting each blog based on author permalink would suffice. If I did this, I imagine that I could style each author’s permalink view to have a unique header?

    Hmmm, I will have to thin about this further.

    I am open to suggestions. 🙂

    Thread Starter mhulse

    (@mhulse)

    12 years, 2 months ago

    I’m going to try out WPMS.

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