59ideas

After migrating a few of my blogs to a shared server, I’m seriously looking at how to run multiple WordPress blogs with the same code.

Here are my requirements

1. Use 1 instant of WordPress code.
   When a new version is released, I just have to update this one instant.
2. The resulting blogs appears on different domains.
   For example, example.com, 59ideas.com, seekingrevenue.com
3. The files are on the same server but not necessary the same Apache server root
   Many hosting use domain pointers so that multiple domains are hosted like this:
   /somepath/www/example
   /somepath/www/59ideas
   /somepath/www/seekingrevenueor it should work like this too:
   /somepath/example/www/
   /somepath/59ideas/www/
   /somepath/seekingrevenue/www/
4. Since each blog is standalone, it should have
   • separate theme
   • separate plugins
   • separate upload files
   • separate .htaccess, permalink structure

I decided against Wordpress Mu because there might be a (remote) chance that the site will move into different servers again. When that happens I want to just install a copy of plain old WordPress.

Looking around, these look like promising approaches.

1. echo “Hello Again, World!”; by Stephen Rider
2. Multi-blogging for Wordpress update by Bruce Kroeze