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
- Use 1 instant of WordPress code.
When a new version is released, I just have to update this one instant. - The resulting blogs appears on different domains.
For example, example.com, 59ideas.com, seekingrevenue.com - 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/ - 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.
- echo “Hello Again, World!”; by Stephen Rider
- Multi-blogging for Wordpress update by Bruce Kroeze
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