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Dgold, what I meant was, I’d have to fix it if they either posted in the wrong category, or simply didn’t choose one. That’s why I want to make it as “idiot proof” as possible, i.e. they get little to no choice in anything. All they’ll do is type and hit send, and everything else is as automatic as possible.

I’ve looked through the multi-user version of wordpress and I’ve gotten the sense that it’s still buggy. I might have to go MT, simply because they’ve had more time to work out bugs. I’ll keep an eye out for future WP mu releases though.

Thanks Aleister and Dgold!

Dgold, I agree, your way seems easier, but I’m worried the authors will just forget to select a category and I don’t want to be spending all my time editing their posts. I’m dealing with a group of people who are new to blogging and (for some) new to using the internet for anything other than email and yahoo.

Would I be able to use subdomains with either method? i.e. author.maindomain.com

In all honesty I’m surprised that multiple blogs haven’t been implemented into WP yet, as it has in MT. Having to do a separate install for each user limits the feasibility, especially if someone needs to do this for a larger number of users.

Would it be hard to add multiple blog functionality to WP? I was going to pay the $200 MT commercial license anyways, so maybe if a few other people chipped in, we could pay someone to program it for us and then release the code under GPL?