John

At first glance it seems like you have file permission problems. When you go to type.is/knowledge do you see the content but in very 1996-like Web formatting? That means it cannot read your CSS.

Can you verify the ownership and permissions for wp-admin, wp-content, and wp-includes?

@pdclark, I think you should trademark “hey… don’t do that.” ?? It is a powerful, necessary and repetitive response on forums. I like it better than “you’re doing it wrong”.

Separate sites/blogs on multi-site can all have different themes, plugins and configurations. I’m not sure what you mean by “something awry” but if your root domain is “type.is” and you set up multi-site and create a site with the name “knowledge”, it is behaving exactly as planned. If you create another site with the name “awesomeness” it will appear as “type.is/awesomeness”.

You can use plugins to map domains and sites if you wish to have multiple sites with unique domains within the same multi-site install.

You may want to break down your requirements to their fundamentals. You want to have separate domains, but what is driving that decision? Is it because you want organization and structure or because you want to partition the interaction?

Multisite creates distinct sites/blogs that share a common infrastructure of available plugins and users (NOT members). Each site would have to be managed and configured separately, with potentially separate themes, settings, and members. There are ways using plugins and hacks to massage it into sharing members, replicating configurations, etc…, but it is not the purpose for which it was designed and limits your ability to implement changes. Note that these are just a few significant problems to deal with before you even get to the question of “how can i aggregate posts and share common pages?”

As Andrea suggests, a single site with categories for your different media types would allow content segregation if necessary, aggregation at the entry page by default, and common membership, themes, configuration, and pages (because it is one site).

Is there something about your requirements that wouldn’t be satisfied in this model?

As Ipstenu mentions, there are plugin options available for doing login locking. If they ever did roll such a function into the core, it would have to be possible to disable it and I would NEVER want it applied to my admin account under any circumstances.

Lockout features create the ability to keep the legitimate user out as well. Nothing should ever prevent the Admin from logging into their WordPress site/multi-site when they need.

That said, please please PLEASE read the hardening WordPress doc that was referenced. WordPress fits a lot of different needs for a lot of different people, so sometimes things are quite left flexible, but I highly encourage picking the hardening measures that are appropriate to you and implementing them.

I wouldn’t delete either of them. php5.ini is the config file for PHP5, php.ini is for v4 and earlier. To see which php.ini is used by PHP on your web server, create a file with only
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
as the contents, and save it in your local web root as check_php.php. Open the file in your browser as https://localhost/check_php.php, to find the path to the php.ini file your web server is using.

You may wish to ensure that the upload temp directories are not running out of space.

Is this a standalone site or are you running multisite? Do you have a blog quota? How large are the audio files, PHP has its own file size limits and someone may have played around with those in php.ini.

You can have the menu system point to a specific category’s archive pages, that’s not a problem. But by default, the main page of your blog is either going to be the general posts page or a static page. The easiest route would be to let your main page be a welcome page and then have the menu direct people to two different archive pages for the two categories you want to split the site into. That may also provide some aesthetic balance because otherwise one category gets front page, the other requires action to view.

If you want to display posts of a specific category on the main page, you’ll have to modify your theme’s template files, are you comfortable editing PHP?

Just a suggestion, since you don’t have them in your media library, you should probably write posts about them. Use Categories to create your Major organizational structure (band?) and Tags to identify different attributes (rock, guitar, ballad, fast, 90’s, etc….)

Really, it’s up to you how you want to structure things, and WordPress is really good about custom taxonomies as well, but you probably don’t need to go that far at the beginning.

If you think of your blog as an online cookbook, each post could be a recipe in the cookbook, each category is a major recipe type (beverage, appetizer, soup, entree, dessert, etc…) and tags are things that you may want to search by (different ingredients, lowfat, holidays/styles, etc…)

Unless it is in the core release, it is going to have to be a plugin.

I’m assuming you’ve already seen QuickPress in your dashboard. You can make ‘notes’ and save them as drafts. Then clean them up when/if you like. If they eventually become ready for prime-time then you can publish them. Is that going to fit your needs?

When you say their pages, are you talking specifically about static pages on a single site (aka blog), or are you thinking of running a etwork (multi-site) and giving each person their own site (blog)?

I am all but positive you haven’t lost anything. Think of it like locking your keys in the car ??

Take a stab at this: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

A few years ago I decided to skirt around the whole issue and just buy the rights to content I wanted to use. There are a lot of royalty free sites, like iStockPhoto that have some pretty good graphics/icons/photos available at reasonable prices (this isn’t an advertisement, just an example site, there are many to choose from).

Did you want the most recent posts to be “reposted” on your self-hosted site or just linked back?

Hi mjalfonsi,

I can’t speak to anything on the IIS portion, but in general this should be possible. However, you will need to manually install and configure each instance, so you can modify the wp-config.php and select a specific blog prefix.

A writeup on this topic was posted here.