Looking to dev a site! Who know WP MU?

[wussadotcom]

Hi, i am looking to develop a site soon with corner.info as I didn't get the target offer so I was planning to include a blog hosting service with the site with extension corner.info

Quite an exciting prospect with subdomains like

Webmaster.corner.info
Food.corner.info
Book.corner.info
Kids.corner.info

And personal blogs like

Obama.corner.info
Palin.corner.info
Cain.corner.info :bah:

I am looking at the possibility of using WP MU(Wordpress free script)
looks pretty cool but has anyone here have any experince with it as I know it involves a bit more programming knowledge. Tq :gl:

 

[DDC_Cyn]

I used WordPress MU some years back and it was a nightmare. I imagine they've worked some of the bugs out of it since then - but it was very difficult to customize anything as all of the blogs were hooked together.

There were also very few plugins that worked with it -- I'm sure it's improved but I definitely wasn't a fan.

 

[barefoottech]

Just use regular WP
With fantastico installs ,Installing a seperate WP on each subdomains is fairly straightforward and QUICK.

 

[chadsmith]

I'm using WPMU right now on my site and have about 50 blogs running on various domains and subdomains. Since you're just going to use one domain it should work just fine. It's come a long way over the last year. Themes and plugins that work for regular WP work just fine. The only problem you might run into is if your host allows wildcard subdomains. PM me if you have any specific questions.

 

[weblord]

you might want to try WP-Universe
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-universe/

Author: Huseyin Uslu

WP-Universe creates a blog universe based on categories of a Wordpress blog.

Blog universe is a Wordpress blog which serves more than one domain/subdomain. WP-Universe does not require any coding/template editing but automaticly handles the universe-creation. To explain the concept universe;

Let's assume we have a blog - http://www.myblog.com - which is our main blog. Let's say we have categories gaming, coding and life. After enabling WP-Universe you can match categories to universe subdomains or domains;

Category Gaming -> http://gaming.myblog.com Category Coding -> http://coding.myblog.com Category Life -> http://life.myblog.com

With a simple configuration your universe will be;

* http://www.myblog.com - Main Blog / Universe / Serves all content from all categories
* http://gaming.myblog.com - Gaming Universe; will just serve content from GAMING category and it's subcategories.
* http://coding.myblog.com - Coding Universe; will just serve content from CODING category and it's subcategories.
* http://life.myblog.com - Life Universe; will just serve content from LIFE category and it's subcategories.

Demos & Sites Using

WP-Universe runs on my main blog, check;

* http://www.huseyinuslu.net - Main Universe
* http://war.huseyinuslu.net - Warhammer Online Portal
* http://wow.huseyinuslu.net - World of Warcraft Portal
* http://devel.huseyinuslu.net - Coding Portal

 

[yilduz]

MU is a horrible pain. It took forever for me to figure out how to get it installed and working properly. Then I had to do the wildcard thing, then things still weren't working properly. The wordpress MU forums are incredibly useless as everyone there just tells you to use the search function to find threads two years old and completely irrelevant.

I say: find an alternative.

 

[happyhappy]

lol wpmu can be hard to setup.. if you don't have access to the server you will find issues doing the anything.domain.com or you will have to revert to domain.com/anything if you need help hit me up and I will see what I can do

 

[wussadotcom]

Thanks everyone. Really appreciated it. Everyone gets a greeny.About the wild card thingy I don't have any prob. What I really want to know if the each blog on each subdomain can share the same theme and plugin. Cheerio

 

[weblord]

yes, as seen on the demos on the urls i posted.

What I really want to know if the each blog on each subdomain can share the same theme and plugin. Cheerio

 

[wussadotcom]

Well I will try out WPMU 1st then see about Weblord's opinion. Thanks everyone.

 

[Fugato]

If you need any help, I'm willing to :D

I've used WP for 1 1/2 years