Jamie Welch

I assume that you are doing this for a theme, and WordPress’s built in function the_excerpt() is automatically set to take the first 55 words and may work for you, depending on how long you want this excerpt to be.

What I meant is that you can do domain mapping, however he wants the blog to be in a subdomain of the domain he’s mapping to. It would be a coding nightmare, and I would say that we can use the KISS principle here and just set them up separately. Or, he could move the store and what-not included in his websites all over to the wordpress problem and then use multi-site with domain mapping. Hmm…

Try logging in as the root administrator user on your account (usually admin, or whatever you created the blog with). Then you should see the Super Admin Menu. You can then go to the users menu and give yourself the Super Admin user privilege in Super Admin > Users.

WordPress MS (Multi-Site) is meant for users wanting to create a blog network on the same domain name (ie, blog1.example.com, blog2.example.com, or example.com/blog1/ and example.com/blog2). What it sounds like here is that you are using different domain names for each site. This would mean that Multi-Site would not work for you. It is possible to configure it to work with domain mapping, however you still must configure each blog separately, because by design the blogs run just like they were their own install.

Another problem is the fact that you have different setups on each different site. I would recommend just keeping them separate and setting them up individually.