Best way to run multiple WP
 

Im in no way a techie when it comes to WP, I know there is WP MU..but what Im trying to do is run several blogs on one domain within several sub domains. What would be the best way to go about that?

Thanks in advance

Use blog organizer.You can run multiple WP blogs any way you want. Single domain with subs, multiple domains even across multiple hosts, schedule posts across all of them, share posts where ever you want on multiple blogs, etc....

In fact you can use almost any blog script you like and there is a template system in BO so you could use BO to build the blogs from as well.

Neither wordpress or wordpressMU will allow you a single admin for multiple sites. If you run 25 wordpress installations, you have to go into the admin in each of the 25. That is really only a problem if you are accepting comments and moderating them. If you are not accepting comments, you probably won't log into the admin areas often.

If you want to do that, you need to use something like Blogs Automator, pull feeds into that, and resyndicate out to your network. TPat and a few others would be able to talk more about that side of it.

Whether to use MU versus plain wordpress is up to you. MU follows Wordpress and their version is not quite as up to date as wordpress. Many addons do not work in MU, however, upgrading is as simple as upgrading one installation rather than 25.

The better question is, why do you want a number of separate blogs? Since categories can be used and a post can go into a category, you could have domain.com/category be one category and domain.com/category2 be another. There are mods that allow a template to be selected based on the category.

Ya know Sparky - you're right. My thought was because of several different categories/niches on one domain that encompasses a vast array of niches, Id create individual blogs for each. I never thought about just setting up the categories with one install.

"Light shines on marble head"

I got sent this the other day, I haven't checked this out yet... but it looks promising

http://striderweb.com/nerdaphernalia...ual-multiblog/

I've used Virtual Multiblog before and it works perfectly. The only problem I found with it is the domains need to be under the same user account in order to do the symlinks, so unless you only want multiple blogs on the same domain, it doesn't work with cPanel/WHM which creates a separate user for each domain.

I know that WP is in question but on the other hand
I thing you can manage multiple domains from one MT installation. They have great tech forum there.
I know cd 34 was talking in one thread how much more stable platform this is than WP. more MT multiple domains info
And Cleo is running one so maybe she knows better.

MT does multiple blogs/domains very nicely, it can publish to any folder on your server aka where a completely different domain is pointing as long as your permissions are setup right.

WP-MU your limited to the domain you installed on and your URLs will either be blogname.domain.com or domain.com/blogname

b2evo can be used to run multiple domain blogs from one domain :-) Works like a charme. I just need to remember one password/login. Of course it takes a little tweak in the code, cost around a hundred bucks for the coder. |potleaf|

My thought is to create a directory with all my most common plugins that dont need custimizations and symlink to them for each blog.