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8:04 pm
March 24, 2009 |
schleuss
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| | We've recently set up blogs for thetraveleronline.com. I want to make sure we're doing it right before we get cracking. We're still using CP4 and I know we're limited, but at least we're using WordPress. So, I want to set our blogs up like http://blogs.dailypennsylvania…..ottomline/ This way, a user can append a specific blog name, like "thebottomline" to the domain. We've already got blogs.thetraveleronline.com, but I would like to set up multiple blogs for /sports, /tech, /etc. Any suggestions on this or anything in general for student newspaper blogs? |
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2:39 pm
March 25, 2009 |
Daniel Bachhuber
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| | Excellent question, Jon. When I did this for the Daily Emerald, I created separate installs of WordPress for each blog in a subdirectory of the "blogs" subdomain. For instance, the Press Pass is located at /sports/, and setting up a new blog is as easy as creating a new folder and database, and installing WordPress. I even created a deploy package with my default set of plugins to cut down on the amount of time required to create a new blog. The downside to this approach is that it becomes unmanageable beyond 4 or 5 blogs (because you have to create new users for each instance, upgrade plugins, install and tweak themes, etc.). The other option is to install WordPress MU which is more difficult to install at the beginning, but allows you to easily create new blogs. I believe Albert Sun had a hand in the Daily Penn blogs. I'll pass this question along to him. | |
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2:57 pm
March 25, 2009 |
albert
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| | Daniel's advice is spot on. We originally had separate installations of WordPress for each blog, but have since been migrating them over to WordPress Mu, which really streamlines the process of managing multiple similar blogs. |
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3:05 pm
March 25, 2009 |
schleuss
| | | | | Member | posts 4 |
| | Awesome! Well, I'll get cracking on that. We still don't have FTP access, so I'll be sending another request to CP and waiting a week. Soon enough though! |
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11:12 am
March 27, 2009 |
joey
| | Silicon Valley | | | Admin | posts 39 |
| | The Daily Orange has done this as well at blogs.dailyorange.com. It's a bit difficult to set the server side permissions right (unless you know what you're doing), but the result is that it's much easier to manage all blogs. One more issue: WordPressMU seems stalled at version 2.6.5 of WordPress. It would be really sweet to have it upgrade to version 2.7. | |
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12:24 pm
March 29, 2009 |
Mo Jangda
| | Toronto, ON | | | Member | posts 35 |
| | If you are setting up blogs using multiple wordpress installs or MU, one thing I'd highly recommend is a common unifying header (or in some cases, foot) element in all your templates that links all your web properties. This will make it easier for your users to navigate between your different sites and build that perception that each blog is part of a larger network. For an example see WSJ and Marketwire (note the bar consistent across the top listing all the WSJ sites). I've set up blogs using WordPress categories, where I've created a super "Blogs" category and every blog has a unique category within that. It's not the most graceful solution and not necessarily the most scalable, but it's fairly easy to set up and we've never really had a significant need for blogging (well, not yet anyway). | |
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