For this type of multi-blog site, should I use WP or WPMU?

  • I hope this is the right place to ask. After reading a bit about the differences between WordPress and WordPress MU, I’m still not sure which is best to use for my website. My website will have the main blog home page, but it will also have many other pages in subdirectories which will be blogs as well. The number of these subdirectory blogs might run into the thousands! My website will cover many topics, each topic with its own blog in a subdirectory, and each of these blogs updated by myself every few weeks.

    The only capability a visitor would have in all of these blogs is to leave comments.

    I will have to use a single database for the whole thing (I’m hosted by GoDaddy, and they allow only 10 databases per account).

    I’m thinking of doing Multiple Blogs Through Multiple Installs via Single Database, as described here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_Multiple_Blogs

    Or would WordPress MU be the way to go fur such a website with multiple blogs in subdirectories?

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  • Hello Amisario, Hope you dont mind but Im going to piggy back on your question. I have the same situation. Have a blog that has a couple other tabs on header that I want as blogs also. Will follow this to see if we get answers. If I find it I will post it here for ya.

    Thread Starter amisario

    (@amisario)

    Hmmm… Surely someone knows something about this! Maybe my question is too vague. I guess I have to dig into the documentation some more.

    I’m just wondering what is the simplest setup for running many different blogs under one domain name and with one database, with all content added by me — visitors could not make blogs, just add comments.

    My hunch is to go for Multiple Blogs Through Multiple Installs via Single Database, but thought I’d confirm with the experts before spending a year at it and finding out there was a much better way.

    Thread Starter amisario

    (@amisario)

    Hello stvemib. Looks like no answers! I read a bit more in the help pages and documents, then went ahead and started building my sight using WordPress under a single data base. So far I’ve installed two of them following the instructions at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_Multiple_Blogs

    Amazingly, the two blogs work! They use the same database, so I don’t have to make a new database with each blog. I put each of the two blogs in it’s own subdirectory, end they work great! I don’t bother with setting up a subdomain with my host provider, though that is certainly possible. Without setting up a subdomain, one can use the simple URL of https://www.examplewebsite.com/blog. That would automatically take you to the home page of the blog.

    Good luck!

    Hi pals,
    I am a Newbie in WordPress. I need multiple blogs in a Single
    installation of wordpress. I look “multiblog” mechanism , but it’s
    not Working Properly , I don’t Get the idea How it can Setup in
    localhost system properly first. At last I found WordPress MU ,
    I install same , it’s Work well …. But I don’t know how to setup
    new Blogs in there. Do any one give a Work around for same first in my
    localhost. Then I need To do same online…. So Please Give a Solution
    As Early As Possible…

    with Regards
    Anes P.A

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