MultiSite – Multiple Blogs in Dev Environment

That’s corct yes. As to whether is it *best*, only you can decide that.

Best for what? Dev work? Sure, it can be. Lots of devs are using multisite for just this reason.

the tricky bits come when you need to move it.

Also – if they want three blogs, why not just use a single install and categories? multisite (or separate installs) give them separate admin areas.

Thank you for the prompt reply.

Your suggestion of single install with categories seems good, I was not aware you could do separate blogs that way. And it will be easier to move the site once the development is completed as a single install.

Seems like the multi-site is more for multiple clients sites rather than same client with multiple blogs.

multisite is what they used to build wordpress.com – separate blogs for lots of people.

while you could do what you want with multisite, it’s a step up in a lot of respects, so I try and make sure peple using it for the first time know what thye’re getting in to.

If each blog the client wants needs a different theme, that would tip it back over into separate sites.

I got the categories set, however how do I make them separate pages ?

well, you get a category archive automatically.

/category/category-name/.

Lots of ways to handle that. You could make a page template that pull just the posts from each category.