Multiple Wordpress blogs, one admin panel?

[Notorious MCSE]

Is this possible?

I dont want to use XML files to parse info, Id rather just publish directly to a subdomain.chinacartimes.com from chinacartimes.com/wp-admin

[Chris H]

I've used a product called wpmassinstaller aka blog Matrix Pro that would do what you want.

[sarahA]

WordPress MU pretty much does what you want

[Notorious MCSE]

WordPress MU pretty much does what you want

Thanks Sarah, ill take a gander.

Im pretty sure I replied once to this thread, did the NAZIS in charge delete it?

[Notorious MCSE]

WordPress MU pretty much does what you want

Sarah - yonks ago you sent me a little RSS parser - what was it called? Badger or something?

[sarahA]

magpie. and it's built into wordpress as well - http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_rss

However, what exactly are you trying to do with your site(s)?

[Notorious MCSE]

magpie. and it's built into wordpress as well - http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_rss

However, what exactly are you trying to do with your site(s)?

Cheers! Badger, wtf was I thinking?

Im going to set up different channels - trucks/hybrids etc etc. I dont know if to set up multiple blogs truck.chinacartimes.com or just magpie to pull the China Car Times truck feed into a site.

[sarahA]

if you're looking to expand then I'd go with WP MU. For 2 or more blogs it just makes things easier. You can keep it all on one domain which means 2 sites contributing to visitors and alexa rankings (whilst inaccurate as we know, advertisers still take notice). It also means one login and then you can access all the blogs easily. The front page for the main domain can then be set up to display all the latest posts. And there's not much programming needed really.

[Notorious MCSE]

if you're looking to expand then I'd go with WP MU. For 2 or more blogs it just makes things easier. You can keep it all on one domain which means 2 sites contributing to visitors and alexa rankings (whilst inaccurate as we know, advertisers still take notice). It also means one login and then you can access all the blogs easily. The front page for the main domain can then be set up to display all the latest posts. And there's not much programming needed really.

I was thinking of buying seperate domains, but you say keep it all on site.

Im confused! Whats best?

[sarahA]

well you've got some choices there. You buy separate domains and run a WP blog on each, you could use the separate domains as add on domains so you'd still run WP MU but each blog would use an add on domain so it would appear as if it was seperate sites but you'd still run it all from one central admin. Or you run one domain with all the content, thereby making a strong, large content website.

I'd stick with one domain personally, but I guess it's a personal preference. You may need to look into the SEO benefits of each option and determine which is best, one domain with lots of pages or many domains with fewer pages on each.

[Notorious MCSE]

Cheers Sarah - Ill do more research into it!

[SLEE]

ive sort of got the same question but slightly different scenario. ive got two sites running wp that i would like to make into one site but i want to set it up so i run the whole site on one domain but if they go to domain foo they get the content for that section and domain bar they get the content for the other. i guess like what you have sarah. is that easy to achieve?

[sarahA]

easy enough yeah. you can either run two installs of WP or run WP MU on the chosen domain.

How do you want your domains to work with the new locations? redirect to them so foo.com redirects to newdomain.com/foo/ or have it so that the blog displays as if it's on the foo.com domain?

Also, can you have addon domains in your account?