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Multiple Blogs in single installation

Maintaining more than one Blog can be time consuming, endless patches, new WordPress upgrade (to enjoy the new features in the recent launch of WordPress 2.5), fine-tuning can keep you really busy!

We have decided to use single WordPress installation for all Blogs. Well, we explore WordPress Mu but it is just way too bulky and complicated. WP Mu is like a layer of control panel in front of WP core engine. Yet, due to this fact, it is hard to configure and having problem catching up with latest WP releases.

You can try the Multiblogs solution to work this out. This single WP installation works for everyone by loading a different config file. As usual, these are few issues to be taken note on:

1) Unicode_start, this is one way to show Unicode characters in your Linux Terminal. This is interesting, we thot Unicode filename in Linux was not well supported, looks we are wrong!

2) Symlink, this allows creation of folder structure in our approach to archieve something like /lang/country/destination. The command ln -s . Make sure this command is run in the folder where you are creating the symlink.

3) The clean vuser function in mb-functions.php in multiblogs seems do not support non-ascii language well. It replaces all non-ascii to _, creating problem in the database Prefix name.

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  1. I’ve actually been able make 15 blogs run on a single WordPress 2.5 installation by using different $table_prefix for different sites. The file system has been virtualised using symbolic links and so far, everything looks very well :)

  2. Last of the mogican.
    jason biggs

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