Wordpress-Mu for separate domains?

[Ghalt]

I've been building Xfactor sites in WP now for a while.

The thing is, if I want to make a change, upgrade plugins, etc., I now have to log into each blog separately.

I do NOT want subdomain blogs.

I have multiple blogs, each on their own primary domain.

Can I setup WPMU to control them?

How do I do things like:

- make a template change that applies to all the sites?
- make a template change that I only want to apply to one site (eg: installing Google Analytics for a particular site)

Also, are there any SEO impacts to having various domains get their theme from one place, presumbably on a single domain (if that's how it works)?

Is there a problem with Hostgator and WPMU?

Thanks!

[TimGross]

You can use WPMU to run multiple blogs by using a Domain Mapping plugin. All the blogs are actually in http://subblog.mainblog.com but you register subblog.com domain, point ns1 & ns2 to the WPMU hosting IP, and while it looks like http://subblog.com is its own domain, it's really pulling the info from http://subblog.mainblog.com

There are 2 plugin folders, one for regular plugins and one muplugin folder that activates plugins site-wide when a plugin is put in it.

As far as SEO issues, there's a wpmu forum that discusses that type of thing.

Originally Posted by Ghalt

I've been building Xfactor sites in WP now for a while.

The thing is, if I want to make a change, upgrade plugins, etc., I now have to log into each blog separately.

I do NOT want subdomain blogs.

I have multiple blogs, each on their own primary domain.

Can I setup WPMU to control them?

How do I do things like:

- make a template change that applies to all the sites?
- make a template change that I only want to apply to one site (eg: installing Google Analytics for a particular site)

Also, are there any SEO impacts to having various domains get their theme from one place, presumbably on a single domain (if that's how it works)?

Is there a problem with Hostgator and WPMU?

Thanks!

[Ghalt]

Thanks for pointing out the wpmu forum. I searched it but didn't get a really good answer.

It seems to me that having domain1.com pointing to a blog that is really on sublog.maindomain.com is going to lose some SEO value.