WDJD

“When you said “I’ll be happy to pay you or someone once I see this working.” it implied ‘I’ll pay someone AFTER they write the code for me.’ which is working on spec.”

Oh no sorry, that’s not what I meant at all. I meant, that once I see that I can create a working tests site, THEN I’ll pay someone to help me do everything that needs to be done, because there’s going to be much to do I am sure.

“On that you’re probably SOL. I don’t work on spec and personally, I don’t condone it.”

I totally don’t get what you’re saying here sorry.

By the way, do you know of any sample sites that are already functioning the way I want mine too?

Well I’ll be happy to pay you or someone once I see this working.

OK, I can look at all that later. Right now I do not need to know all the ins and outs, i just want to have a working test so I can verify that I need to learn all this stuff. So perhaps you could be so kind to just tell me what I need to do.

“Put this in your theme wherever you want the nav menu”

I’m going to need a little more hand-holding please. How do I put this in my theme?

Ack, code, now I’m going to be lost… What is an $args?

It will be the same theme, but I will need to change it later because I will first need to choose a theme, and then tweak it. And I won’t be doing that until I know this will all work.

So I have setup multiuser/network sites. Now what?

And yes, all “sites” will use the same theme…

“Sub-folders are seen as ‘children’ of main sites via Google etc. Sub-domains are seen as their own site.”

Well in that case I will need to stick with sub-folders and I will make the vanity URLs in CPanel. So now what…

Does it matter whether I choose sub-domains or sub-directories? It would be good to use a sub-domain so I can give bloggers their own vanity url.

OK, so let me rule two things out. Hard Coding. Not doing it, my site will be growing like crazy, adding new blogs almost every day.

Using one blog but different categories, sorry, not going to work, people need to be able to login and control their own blogs and not have others being able to get into it. Also a majority of these blogs will be used as podcasters.

So. I am setting up a staging site right now. I will activate multiuser now. It will be here: https://godsipod.org

Please tell me what to do…

Yeah, I looked at that page, but it’s a menu for each “site” isn’t it.

Well I need menus that are like:

Cat1 >blog1
>blog2
>blog3
>blog4

Cat2 >blog5
>blog6
>blog7

etc…

It can not do that can it?

Yeah, except what I want to do, is sooooooo basic, it should have been part of WP before it hit 1.0. That you can’t have more than one blog in a “site”, is ludicrous.

OK. I appreciate all the replies. I am going to drop WP as a possible solution for now. For a 3.0 product I expect it to do what .01 alpha CMS products can, at least. It’s rather strange that I can’t just create a new blog page and then assign it user privileges. It’s rather inexcusable in fact. Instead I have to jump trough hoop after hoop, hack after hack just to get it to do what every single other CMS that I have ever looked at can do with ease. It makes no sense. Hopefully one day someone will release a plugin that will do this, or WP will be updated to do this. I will be a happy man on that day and will reconsider WP. Thanks for your help.