Need Advice : multiple installs, WPMU, or just one…

  • This is my first post and I look forward to any advice you can provide!

    I have a dilemma and I am not sure how to proceed, I would like to know what you would do.

    I am about to create a new website using WordPress. I will need it in English and in French. I will also need a blog (only in English) and the blog will need it’s own theme.

    I don’t want to install WP 3 times (one off the root for English, one at /fr/ for French and one at /blog/ for the blog).

    Should I install WPMU, or rather “Create a network” with 3.0? Or is what I need possible using only one installation of WP?

    I appreciate any help and if you have any questions or need more info, just let me know – Thanks!

    [Moved to Mutisite for a more informed opinion]

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  • You can have blog posts show up in /blog/ of your website by using a page template.

    Everything you want, other than “and the blog will need it’s own theme.” can be done with one install.

    Depending on the criteria (a blog being *that* different from the rest of the site might turn away visitors), you could still handle it with one.

    Even still, in multisite, the /blog/ is off the main site anyway and is a reserved name.

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    (@coltonday)

    Hi Andrea,

    Thanks for the response!
    OK, I didn’t think it could be a multisite.
    Where could I learn more about customizing the blog, let’s say what items I might be able to have different and how to change it.
    And if using only one install, is there a recommended plugin for a bilingual blog – maybe one where the English and French titles/content are entered on the same page. Would it matter if I didn’t want the blog to be in French?
    And lastly, if it where to be separate installs, could I have a search bar on the homepage that could search through all three installations?

    Thanks again!

    @coltonday — are you using different domains? Subdomains?

    And lastly, if it where to be separate installs, could I have a search bar on the homepage that could search through all three installations?

    no. Only if it were something like multisite.

    is there a recommended plugin for a bilingual blog

    look at qtranslate and WPML

    @bbruno – read his first post. subfolders.

    Where could I learn more about customizing the blog, let’s say what items I might be able to have different and how to change it.

    that’s kinda… broad. ??

    On the front side, you can literally change *ANYTHING* because that the theme part. The rest is coding chops. Could be as simple as – well to change the tagline, change the text in the field in the backend, to change the colors via css, to ad a plugin for this function, to something you haven;t dreamed up yet thats highly custom. See? ??

    OK, I didn’t think it could be a multisite.

    Well, it *could*, there’d just be no real advantage.

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    (@coltonday)

    Thanks for your response Andrea. I think I’m looking at a single install. I’ll look into those 2 plugins and look further into customizing the blog’s look. I appreciate your help!

    @bbruno – Same domain, no sub-domains.

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