27 Feb 2009

WordPress | Multiblog (not WordPress MU): Getting Closer

Technology 4 Comments

So I have been scouring the web of late looking for a solution to my situation. It has been a tough road.  I want to make my main WP site a writing pad or control panel for my other blogs/sites. a post to the Main blog, here, should, based on its category, copypost to here, here, and here. If there is a post with two categories, it should get posted to two blogs.

I also want these blogs to appear to be separate entities. The Luminous Room is a site dedicated to my photography business. It would be unprofessional to have my other blogs and sites pushed upon my photography clients. This goes for my other sites as well. I do however want the subscribers to the blogs to have the option of subscribing to my other blogs in there preferences. That pretty much sums up what I am trying to do.

First step taken:

I had to create multiple instals of WP and, for this to work I had to have multiple prefixes in the database for each install. I basically copied my first “WordPress” 3 times for 3 separate sites. This allowed multiple blog/sites, but broke all links and data. Not what I wanted. So once I started looking at the database in PHPadmin I realized the data wasn’t in these new installs. As soon as I replaced those tables in the database… WAMO!, my data popped into it’s spot. Does all this make since?

Now, This is NOT my ideal setup, as a matter of fact, I hate it. Now I have to manage three entirely separate sites. I want one main wordpress system that I can post all my posts to, and, using categories, have those posts be copied to the appropriate blogs. The main site touches on all I do, but the sub sites are category specific, with no link back to my main site EXCEPT by links in maybe a bio AND in the subscribers preferences. These other Sub-sites have their own domain. Same users on all the accounts/blogs/sites. 
If you know of any info that will help me better my system… PLEASE let me know in the comments. There are a lot of people out there that want to do what I am trying to do, but no answer. I started a thread on this topic here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/247629?replies=1 , but have explained it better in this post.

Since then:

I still do not like the setup and feel like I am slowly burying myself. I think that once I do figure this all out, I am going to either have to dig my self out of the dirt, or the fix will fix it all. I continue on to find the answer.

I may be getting closer:

I found two sites, Nerdaphernalia and one here. The second mentioned the first. I have read through these posts once so far and think I may be on to something here.

What do you guys think?

4 Responses to “WordPress | Multiblog (not WordPress MU): Getting Closer”

  1. Reply
    Heath McConnell says:
    2009/03/03 at 8:46 am

    So, I have found out, after a little more research, in “Strider’s Modified Mertner Method Multiblog”, found at http://striderweb.com/wp-content/multiblog/multiblog-readme.htm , will not work for me. The main reason is listed in the first paragraph… “Each blog is managed as a complete separate install — separate admin sections, separate users, etc”. I need the same admin and users.

    The next place I will start diving in is at Corvidworks where you use the wp-blog-header.php file. In his write up he seems to talk of how you can use that file to include posts in other websites.

    It would be so nice if I could easily create a completely different WP site that I could manage from one WP install with all the same users and admins, etc. Until then…

  2. Reply
    M says:
    2009/03/03 at 11:15 am

    Check out ExpressionEngine. I think it has capabilities similar to what you are looking for.

  3. Reply
    Anique Akhtar says:
    2009/08/05 at 12:36 am

    I wana do the same thing man…
    but i can’t seem to do this..

    did you find anything yet or are you still looking ??

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