Multiple Wordpress installations

[bb99]

Good evening all

I've got to the point where I'm fed up of having so many different Wordpress installations on the same server.

I believe that there are solutions out there that will let me power many different Wordpress sites (each with its own domain name and its own theme). I want the world to think that each is its own self contained site.

Can anyone recommend an easy answer to avoid me searching about and disappearing up my own backside?

Ta.

 

[stevebrowne]

I was about to start this off last night!

WordPress MU is what you want. Same old Word Press, but with a muli layer topping whihc allows you to have subdomain of full domain blogs, each with separate settings.

I have 8 blogs currently, some wordpress, some blogger on different servers, and i was going to try and tie in altogther under 1 wordpressMU installation.

When I get the time, I'll give it a go!

 

[itrends]

I need to dig them out, but there are a few tutorials on doing this with the normal wordpress install rather than WMU.

Personally I find that having a reseller box, putting all my sites on there, and using the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin makes life easy.

I just have a page with all the upgrade links on and click one by one to run the auto upgrade script. Takes 10 mins and all the sites are updated

 

[bb99]

Thanks....

Itrends - didn't know there was an auto-upgrade plugin. You live and learn....

Steve - does MU let you do separate domains rather than subdomains?

 

[stevebrowne]

that's what I've read. Until I have time to give it a go I don;t know for sure, but the stuff I read said that it will do both subdomains and seperate domains.

>> WordPress MU FAQ

>> Does it support regular domains in addition to sub-domains?
>> Sure, to MU a domain is just a domain. You can configure it to respond to any top-level domains or subdomains.

 

[bb99]

Cool, Ta - so it looks like MU is the way to go.

Will have a look at it next week.

 

[grantw]

Have you tried WordPress MU yet BB, just wondered if it was any good for running multiple sites?

Also, has anyone used expression engine?? It's not free but does multiple sites and looks powerful:

Multiple Site Manager | Expansion Information | ExpressionEngine

Cheers, Grant

 

[bb99]

Hi

No, haven't got round to it yet - although I have done a further 6 Wordpress sites since posting above...

Really need to get it sorted though, will maybe try next week.