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Easily Create & Manage Multiple WordPress Blogs…

Angsuman Chakraborty

June 12th, 2008

Any bloggers with multiple WordPress blogs soon realizes the pain and time it costs to maintain the almost identical code base for each blogs when he has to take backups and upgrade his blogs. I was looking at various multi-blog WordPress solutions (not WordPress Mu)…

I couldn't find any solution which is simple to use and configure, allows me to maintain our existing blogs from a single code base and makes upgrade painless.

Do you know any such solution? Would you like to have one?

We need a solution to easily maintain our several (and growing list of) WordPress blogs which makes upgrade and backup (one code base to backup and upgrade is easier than multiple nearly identical code bases) painless. Also it should allow for existing blogs and wouldn't require anyone mucking into code. All plugins should work seamlessly out of the box and also all themes.

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ts Says:
June 12th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

someone once offered a mod rewrite based solution with only one WP file installtion and differing “wp_config.php” files in different directories. Actually, I think I found that link in the multiblog section of the codex.

Monika Says:
June 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pm

Hi all of my blogs have the same plugin-park if they need one plugin or not,
I hate automatic updates because I do not need hundreds of languages files and I would like to know what could happend or not.

So I have one testdomain, ..
I download the new WP version, with all the plugins I need, after this I opened my ftp with all blogaccounts and copy and paste — 35 blogs - if nothing happend on my testdomain- 3hours

regards
Monika

Angsuman Chakraborty Says:
June 17th, 2008 at 4:47 am

Hi ts,

I found the solution too. The problem is that it requires changes to several files and requires an expert to configure.

@Monika,
Don’t you find that cumbersome?

Lars Koudal Says:
June 18th, 2008 at 10:22 am

I would love a solution for that problem.

Even with one-click-plugin updater, its still a hassle having 30+ blogs to update, and uploading a new wordpress version takes a while on all blogs.

a one simple solution where you with a few clicks can update all your blogs to the latest wordpress version, along with updating plugins on the different blogs would be BRILLIANT!

Angsuman Chakraborty Says:
June 19th, 2008 at 2:14 am

We just finished creating a simple solution to the problem. All the WordPress source code for all the blogs is now in a single directory (no duplication). It doesn’t require symbolic links or any kludges, no manual configuration. You can create new blogs, add existing blogs or even delete blogs in less than a minute. All with simple point and click interface, even your grandmother can do it