WP-MU 101: How to Install and Avoid Common Mistakes Installing Multiple Blogs Languages: English • Português do Brasil • ไทย • 中文(繁體) • (Add your language) Multiple Blogs Through Multiple Installs If you want multiple blogs using WordPress, you must actually install each separately (that is, as a separate WordPress installation). Please note in WordPress 3.0 there is now a native ability to create multiple blogs, referred to as a network of sites. Multiple Databases You'll need a separate MySQL database for each blog you plan to install. The wp-config.php file will vary for each installation. define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress'); // The name of the database define('DB_USER', 'username'); // Your MySQL username define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password'); // ...and password DB_NAME will be the name of the individual database created for that blog. Upload each wp-config.php file to its specific root/installation directory, and run the installation. Single Database As with the multiple databases solution described above, the wp-config.php file will vary for each installation.
Wordpress Multiple Users Blogs Installation Automation This hub is an answer to exinco's request: How do I setup wordpress so that vistior can create blog via my site? First of all, I have to say, exinco has done a great job to setup a wordpress blog, and the blog posts are very technical savvy. Now he want to benefit visitors by providing blogging service (free or not?). Installing Multiple Blogs: Wordpress MU What we need to do, first of all, is to check out wordpress documentations regarding "Installing Multiple Blogs", you may find everything you need. WordPress MU is an official branch of WordPress that is designed for managing and hosting thousands of blogs instead of just one. Like single-user WordPress, WordPress MU is available for free under the GPL open source license. Example MU installations include: WordPress.com (400k blogs and several million page views per day as of Fall 06) Harvard University (free blogs for Harvard faculty and students) An altinative project: Lyceum
Setting up a Wordpress MU blogging platform for a university community | Librarians Matter I set up a WordPress MU installation for all staff and students at our university campus. It should have taken the team working on it about 3 months to finish the customization but it took about 18 months…and isn’t quite yet finished… We have had three classes use it over the last three semesters and have over 150 blogs – experimental and active – on it at the moment. Here are some decisions we made. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. It is not always sensible to host you blog on Murdoch Blogs. 8. With WordPress MU, there are two levels of plugins. Here are the plugins that we ended up using: Installation wide – in MU-plugins directory Administrators can switch on for individual blogs – plugins directory Add RSS – allows you to manually add an RSS feed (eg. a Twitter feed) that can be autodetected by Firefox or other web browsersFireStats – comprehensive statistics package that includes a widget for popular posts. The following extra plugins in the plugins directory were requested by a user.
Installing WPMU Languages: বাংলা • English • Français • 日本語 • Português do Brasil • Português • Русский • ไทย • 中文(简体) • Español • (Add your language) As of WordPress 3.0, you have the ability to create a network of sites by using the multisite feature. This article contains instructions for creating a multisite network. A multisite network can be very similar to your own personal version of WordPress.com. End users of your network can create their own sites on demand, just like end users of WordPress.com can create blogs on demand. A multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation. NOTE: If you are currently running WordPress MU, you do not need to complete these steps. Step 0: Before You Begin Compared with a typical single WordPress installation a network installation has additional considerations. This guide describes how to install manually WordPress Multisite in your current WordPress installation. Step 1: Prepare Your WordPress Step 2: Allow Multisite 1. 2.
Intro to New Media Studies, Spring 2008 FAQ for Universities Interested in WPMu at bavatuesdays This morning I had a fun conversation with David Grogan, Ilene Chen, Stephen McDonald, and Hannah Reeves from the academic technology group at Tufts University. They had some questions about running a large scale WPMu installation at Tufts University, and below are some of their questions followed by my working answers. Figured I’d republish it here from Google Docs in the event anyone finds it useful, and special thanks to Hannah Reeves for organizing the session, it was a lot of fun, and it’s apparent Tufts has an excellent group that has much to bring to the experimentation with WPMu in education. Set up and Performance How long have you been running WPMu and what version are you currently running? We have been running WPMu for almost three years now. What plug-ins are you using? Oh wow, this is a big one, we have alomost 100 regular plugins installed, and then another 20 or 30mu-plugins. Can your users create their own themes from scratch? Is your instance designed to be self-service?
Ten ways to use UMW Blogs – UMW Blogs Traditional Blogging Figured we would get this one out of the way first. UMW Blogs can be used as a good, old-fashioned blog. Personal Blog You can easily share your opinions, generate discourse, and interact with others using the best blogging software out there. Examples: Travel Blog In the same vein as the personal blog, but with an international perspective. Em in Asia is a blog started by Fullbright grant-winning UMW student Emily Potosky who has been regularly blogging about her adventures teaching in South Korea for mroe than two years. Review Blog If your interests lie in music, art, literature, or film, you might decide that what you really want is a space to share your reviews and observations. Courses There is more than one way to skin a course with UMW Blogs. A Group Blog This blog is for the professor who wants to have the class blogging together as a group on one blog. Prof. An Aggregated Course Blog E-Portfolios Websites Research Sites Professional Sites Student Organizations News
9 Best Wordpress Tricks and Tutorials for Designers WordPress is one of the most popular blog platforms these days and it has grown so powerful that you can use it also use as Content Management System (CMS). For this article we’ve spent time searching for WordPress Tricks and Tutorials for Designers to make a professional WordPress theme.There are hundreds of tricks over there on wordpress blogs but we only collected the most interesting tricks.If we forgot one please comment it and Retweet this post. 1.Create A jQuery Powered Author Box For WordPress How to make a jQuery powered sliding author box for WordPress. Using an author box in your blog can be a great way to tell your users a little about yourself and of course link to your personal/business website, you can fill out your author information from your WP Admin panel (Users > Authors & Users.) 2.Create Custom Option Panels with WordPress 2.9 WordPress is a powerful engine in itself, but sometimes themes need options that fall outside the core dashboard. 5.WordPress Menu Tricks