Multiple blogs

Sorry, I should have said, I’ve searched the forums and looked at https://mu.www.ads-software.com/ but am still unclear as regards root vs subdirectory. Thanks

Yes, you can. Using WordPress MU depends upon whether or not you want to have admin privileges from BOTH blogs from one admin area. (WordPress MU is used for Multi-Users – thus the name – so there’s lots more to it, as well.)

If you’re handling both blogs, then having more than one installation is quite simple to do. In the wpconfig file, you just have to give the tabel prefix a different name. Default is “wp_” – change it to something else and do the installation as you normally would.

By the way, the difference between “root” and “directory” is that the “root” would be https://www.yourblogname.com, whereas the directory would be a folder below that: https://www.yourblogname.com/wordpress

Some more reading at Installing_Multiple_Blogs

OK great, thanks for your help – will look into it more thoroughly then.

I have a dissertation due in for college on Friday – I should probably do that first before I follow that link or it’ll never get done! ??

Thanks again

I gave in and followed the link ??

Just another question following on from that then…

@doodlebee, you said:
“In the wpconfig file, you just have to give the tabel prefix a different name. Default is “wp_” – change it to something else and do the installation as you normally would.”

Is there an advantage to using this single database method over multi database method or vice-versa?

Well, like I said, the MU install will allow you to use the *one* administration area for several blog installations.

The method I described will let you have multiple blogs, and each blog has it’s own admin area.

For the record, though (and someone can correct me if I’m wrong) MU is a “hacked: version of WordPress, and isn’t something that we handle on this board…You kind of have to get in with the hackers on it because, as far as I know, it’s not really supported Officially, anyway) by WordPress.

Well, mu is a bit beyond hack these days. They even have support forums over at https://mu.www.ads-software.com/forums/

As for

Is there an advantage to using this single database method over multi database method or vice-versa?

To an extent, it’s a choice of convenience. If all blogs are in the same database, using different prefixes, backing them all up in one sweep is very easy. Contrasted by restoring them individually becomes a bit more time-consuming…

oo..Thanks Handy! Didn’t know that ??

Now, just for the sake of sanity: installing MU for two (2) blogs is a bit of overkill.

I have about 4-5 simple WP installs on the same domain in different subfolders or subdomains and they all work great.

LOL – I agree moshu – I always thought the MU version would be utilized more for people who have a site setup where *many* people would be blogging from one spot. Like if you wanted to run a version of Blogger.com or something from your own server (except, maybe not on such a huge scale!)

For the record, though, I have 5 installs of WordPress on my own server, all separate, and I like it that way – alleviates confusion as to where I’m at!