is wordpress the way to go, anyone know which theme this is?

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Good evening,

I'm just wondering if most people are using wordpress to put together sites quickly or are they creating site templates and updating them manually?

I have so far done 3 wordpress installs and I 2nd guessing if this the right way to go. I read somewhere that it was possible to have one wordpress install that could host multiple independent websites each on their on domain but I can't seem to find this information any more so I might have been dreaming.

I don't know what the rules are about me posting this website here but I was just wondering if someone could tell me the name of the theme and plugin used for the price comparison:

BT 150 Digital Baby Monitor - Buy, Review, Best Price

Either this theme is very popular or this one person has loads of sites becuase every time I think of a product and start to do a bit of research a clone of this site appears with the name, info and description switched out.

Thaks
#main internet marketing discussion forum #theme #wordpress
  • Its a UK script, but if you do a search for wordpress price comparison plugin, it comes up there
  • I love wordpress, check out elegantthemes.com 20 bucks a yr and tons of very high end templates.
  • The theme is under a folder called NewPanorama. Looks like an updated version of theis one.

    WordPress › Panorama Free WordPress Themes
  • Fron the site's stylesheet (simple one click thingy with the Developer Toolbar in FF)
  • The information is in WP 3.0.
    It does all that when enabling the multisite feature.
  • Hi Mary
    For me Wordpress is definately the way to go, because once you have your template and plugins setup you only need to load content and this can be fully automated. This will free up your time to move onto the next site and the next and so on. Trying to build and update multiple sites with a tool such as dreamweaver is nearly impossible.

    Yes you can use 1 central WP installation and run all of your other sites on other domains and on other servers. on most (but not all) WP installs the database server host is usually specified as "localhost" but you can just as easily use the IP address of another remote server instead. You should also change the table prefix from the default "wp_" to some thing to identify each WP remote installation.

    for example if I had a remote WP install on a domain with IP and I wanted to use that database server host for another domain part of the new blog wp_config.php file may look like this
    Code:
    example wp_config.php
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/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'remote DB name');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'remote DB usernamehere');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'rempote DB password');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', ''); //remore IP address
......
......
......
......
......
  = 'wp_blog1'; //make table prefix unique
    regarding the theme, if you have a look at the page source you will see path to the theme, in this case it says /Newpanorama/, I did a quick serach and found the panarana theme here Panorama Free WordPress Theme | Themocracy WordPress Themes

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    • Care to explain this in more details...?

      How would that help to have 5 WP blogs on 5 different domains and all administered from one central admin panel?

      Just curious.
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  • I know everything about WP 3.0 - no need for explanation on that.

    I was specifically interested in what you posted as a respons for the OP question: 1 (one) install for multiple domains. So thanks for answering that.
    Your reply did NOT address that issue. What you described is having the WP files uploaded on each different domains and trying to connect them to the same one single DB. Which most hosts will not allow anyway. 99% of the host don't allow remote database connection.

    Even they if they let you do that, you must login into every blog separately to manage them.

    I think that kind of replies will just confuse new WP users (besides being wrong).

    The simple answer is: if you want to use one single WP install and have multiple blogs on different domains - use WP 3.0. It is built-in.
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    • OK, so how do you use multiple domains on the one installation in WP3. you have not actually said

  • If you want an easy way to manager your WP blogs there was a script called WPManagerDX by a Forum Member (EndaM) not sure if she is still doing that script, however, she now doing a WSO here for a desktop version. I used the script version in the past and it was very good as long as all the blogs were on the same server, not sure what the desktop software does.

    Lee
  • The same way they did in the time of WP MU (when WP and WP MU were two different software, before merging them in WP 3.0) -
    using the domain mapping plugin: WordPress › WordPress MU Domain Mapping WordPress Plugins

    They (i.e. WP people) use the same on wordpress.com - you can have a something.wordpress.com blog and being redirected to your own domain
    (see more: Domain Mapping Support — WordPress.com)

    Trust me, the possibility is there in WP 3.0 now
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    • and that is precisely what i said here

    • So can I just go over this to double check I have it right.

      We'll say I have 3 sites, site1, site2, site3 all with different domains.

      I would make one install of wp3 on site1.com

      The next 2 sites would then be site2.site1.com and site3.site1.com and I would then rdirect:

      site2.com > site2.site1.com
      site3.com > site3.site1.com

      Is that about it?

      So can I then mask the url so the site2.com will show as site2.com/page1 etc. rather than it showing as site2.site1.com/page1

      also

      does doing it this way affect how google would rank the additonal sites, what I mean is, does google realise that these additional sites are being redirected to subdomains of another site?

      I hope I have understood this correctly.

      Thanks
  • Again, I don't have any problem with what you said about WP 3.0. I've never had.

    However, I strongly disagree with your "replace localhost with IP#" geek blah-blah... presented as a solution to 1 install multiple sites on multiple domains. It is not.

    If we agree on this one, we can talk WP 3.0. - it would be more useful for the WF members
  • Wordpress is definitely the way to go. The different themes and plugins make it a cinch to create and design a site quickly and easily.

    I like using the universal wp themes like "Thesis theme", "Flex Squeeze" and checkout "woo themes" too.
  • Wordpress is fantastic for DIY. Nothing better in my opinion than "Thesis" theme.
  • @reillymary56

    Yes.
    You can have it either way: subdomain (as in your example) or subdirectory (i.e. example.com/blog2)

    Yes, they could be "redirected" to the domain of your choice.

    Yes, the pages will show up on their own domain.

    I don't know (the big G). Although it is worth to mention here that technically these are NOT redirects!
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