One install, 14 blogs, assigned to different users – possible??

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Create_A_Network

What used to be WP MU (multiuser) is now integrated in the ‘normal’ WP in which you can create a “network”.

Thanks Roy. I had already looked at that but it’s hella confusing. It seems like it’s more for creating new unique sites, not just additional blog pages. When I make a chage, such as a theme adjustment, or adding a plugin, I don’t want to be doing it 14 times. Can you speak to this?

And that is a truly enormous amount of work, which means a huge margin for error, just to accomplish a most-basic CMS function.

This really should be as simple as: New Page > Page Type > Blog > Assign users.

It’s adding one line to WP-config and the rest from the WP dashboard. Indeed, you create subsites, but plugins, themes, etc. are all updated, etc. centrally.

OK, so I have to create a menu structure for each and every site, and every time I make a change, I have to make that change 14 times. Correct?

I don’t know what menu structure you mean, but each subsite gets its own ‘dashboard’ which looks the same as yours, but users of course have less right. Like I said, plugins can be updated centrally. When all subsites use the same theme, the same here.

You claimed he asked the same question in a previous thread, but he was asking about a 2.9 install in that one.

the feature for multiple blogs wasn’t available in 2.9.

Now, you said above you wanted to merge multiple separate blogs into one install. the multisite feature does this. You’ll have a network of blogs in one spot with only one site to upgrade, one set of themes & plugins. each blog will still be independant, like wordpress.com.

If you want a common navigation menu between them all, that’s a different question. ??

Ok, so you can’t have a common navigation menu. So you can’t _really_ have WP site with multiple blogs. Sorry, I thought it said 3.0 not 0.3. ??

Ok, so you can’t have a common navigation menu.

That’s not what I said. ?? I said that was a different question and all sites were separate.

Note this questions has been asked a few times, and answered with a few different methods.

Hardcode it in the theme. There’s the simplest way.

Are there themes that do this already?

It just seems that if you want a simple blog, WP is great, but if you want a CMS, fuggedaboutit. Which then just baffles me, because I decided to give WP a go after see comparisons between Joomla, Drupal and WP with WP coming out the winner. Yet both Drupal and Joomla can do this out of the box.

No, the theme out there pull in a menu specific to that blog only.

It’s a five minute edit to whatever theme you want.

Can you describe, though, exactly what kind of common menu you want? I’m trying not to send you off in the wrong direction.

Again, the multisite feature in wordpress is almost identical to running your own personal version of wordpress.com. Your original post said you wanted 14 different blogs.It does that.

I have an existing website with 14 blogs. I want to move that to a CMS so the blog owners can take care of things without my intervention. So I thought of recreating it all within WP. So when people navigate the site, it needs to appear as one site, not many. If I make a change, I don’t want to be making that change 14 times. And within a year we may have 100 blogs, so it really needs to be very automated.

Is that what you needed to know?

Yes, you can make it all appear as one site.

If I make a change, I don’t want to be making that change 14 times. And within a year we may have 100 blogs, so it really needs to be very automated.

It really depends on what you’re changing and where. Theme background color? One file.

Well, if I move the position of pages, or add pages, take them away, what then?

You mean you want the same navigation bar across multiple sites on your install?