Comments on: Wordpress MU

By: Clay C

Clay C — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 21:38:00 +0000

We’re trying out MU at our office… it is true that it is set up to publish blog1.yourdomain.com, blog2.yourdomain.com, blog3.yourdomain.com — but you can use a DNS CNAME entry to make those subdomains equal http://www.someotherdomain.com

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:22:17 +0000

Yeah, I’ve thought about using it to give specific blogs we have their own hostname. So instructioblog.lib.uh.edu and specialcollectionsblog.lib.uh.edu . My understanding of the Wordpress.org site (which does blog hosting) is that it is based on Wordpress MU, which has been further modified. Right now I believe all the blogs there are on the wordpress.org domain but with their own hostname.

By: Genny Engel

Genny Engel — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:05:31 +0000

What a dork am I! I thought the MU option only existed as a hosted app. I was about to install b2evolution because I was getting kinda tired of recoding all these WP pieces to force it to handle multiuser ;)

BTW, I do recode all the public-facing bits to use a different filename extension and folder names than standard WP. Our site gets such a ton of would-be spammers/crackers trying to post or attack using standard blog file locations.

By: ksclarke

ksclarke — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:10:17 +0000

Blake — WordPress MU does me.domain.edu, you.domain.edu, frank.domain.edu, etc. Once you set one up it is relatively easy to import an existing blog into the newly set up one. I’ve thought about this for combining litablog and acrlblog and then using mod_proxy to keep the litablog.org and acrlblog.org domains (oh, to manage only one wp install).

By: Dorothea

Dorothea — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:39:28 +0000

Blake — yep, very likely. Last I checked, Lyceum didn’t handle subdomains well, but could be hacked slightly to do so.

The hard part is moving individual blogs over, I think. If you give that a whirl, PLEASE post about your process!

By: Blake

Blake — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:58:24 +0000

So if you were running a hosting business, would this be a way to offer blogs to many people at once without having to deal with 50 different installs of wordpress?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:58:53 +0000

I’ll second Lyceum…I’ve played with it a few times, and it’s a solid product. It also helps that I know some of the developers at ibiblio.

By: ksclarke

ksclarke — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:57:21 +0000

I’ve been using WordPress MU and have been very impressed by it as well. I also learned (somewhere along the way) the secret to editing themes in it.

There is a file

/wp-admin/theme-editor.php

that has a little php block at the front of it (in the code). Once you remove that you can reference this file from your wordpress install even though there isn’t a link to it from the blogging software itself. Once you do this you can edit your themes, no problem.

I looked at Lyceum too but decided on WP-MU because all the hosted blogs are kept in separate tables (unlike Lyceum). Since both are fledgling attempts, I felt a little better about getting my data back out if it was distinct. Lyceum at least last time I checked put all the blog data in one table structure.

By: Dorothea

Dorothea — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:47:50 +0000

Have you taken a look at Lyceum? It’s very similar to WPMU, but from a somewhat different angle. You might find it meets your needs better.