One DB for Two Blogs?

  • Hi folks,

    I’m creating a site that has an English translation and an Arabic translation. I want to create an English blog under one subdomain and the Arabic under another. However, the content really doesn’t need to be translated because it’s picture based, so I want both to pull from the same database.

    Can I do that just by installing one blog and then using the same database information for the second so they both pull from one?

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  • Use the same database name, login and password, but manually change the table prefixes in wp-config.php for before each install so each doesn’t overwrite the other’s tables. See Editing wp-config.php ? WordPress Codex

    /**
 * WordPress Database Table prefix.
 *
 * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
 * prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
 */
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';
    Thread Starter n0ts0smart

    (@efpeterson)

    Thanks SongDog,

    So let’s say my current tables’ prefixes are “wp_”, should I put “wp1_” or something similar?

    That would work, or change the whole prefix to english_wp_ and arabic_wp_ or something like that.

    Thread Starter n0ts0smart

    (@efpeterson)

    Hmm…just did that but the new installation of WordPress isn’t picking anything up from the database.

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