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

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

Originally Posted by reillymary56

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

The information is in WP 3.0.
It does all that when enabling the multisite feature.

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scorpio9

14 years ago

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 123.456.789.10 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', '123.456.789.10'); //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

Originally Posted by reillymary56

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.

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

Originally Posted by scorpio9

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.

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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reillymary56 14 years ago

Thanks for all the replies. That's what I love about this place, on the odd occasion I can't find something on search there are always lots of people about.

I will have a look at some theme websites and see what is about, I was just going to make myself one from scratch but if I can find an opensource template that I like I will use that as a starting point. I haven't really had much to do with wordpress until a couple of months ago but their is quite a bit of documentation about.

When I was about to start out on my new IM adventure a couple of months ago I started doing a bit of research into rapid website development and I had found a few topics discussing a different version of wordpress that allowed for multiple sites to be under the umbrella of one install. I should have bookmarked it at the time.

scorpio9, what you are describing is the way I have started to do them, but it requires me to have to do each install manually. I was going to start looking into writing a php script that would automatically set up the widgets, plugins etc. so that I could quickly just copy and paste content and pictures.

Is there already an easy way to do this or did you have to create your own scripts?

I have one more question if you all don't mind. With the couple of wordpress installs I have done I am just basically using a static page for the home page and then creating pages for each product or review.

Do most people use posts instead of pages?

I think I am going to have to sit down over the weekend and play with it a bit because if I am being honest I don't even really know what the difference between a post and a page is.

Thanks again for all the info
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- rosetrees 14 years ago
  
  Don't know if this will help you - it's a short extract from one of my tutorials:
  
  "The difference between Pages and Posts
  I'll start by explaining the difference between pages and posts. The best way I can do this is by using an analogy to good old-fashioned sheets of paper.
  
  Pages. These function in the same way as pages you would design in any other webdesign software.
  Each page has its own separate "sheet". If I add a new page, I add a new "sheet of paper" to my site.
  
  Posts. Posts work like a classic blog. You write a post and, by default, it appears on the posts "sheet" on your blog. Each time you add a post, the new post appears above the previous post but on the same "sheet of paper".
  Each post can also have its own sheet if you click on its title to display a single post."
  
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Norma Rickman

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

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.

It saves you a lot of time, because you can designate certain plugins as network plugins and upload and activate them all at the same time.

When you are working on sites, you only need to have the one CPanel open as well.

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reillymary56

14 years ago

Originally Posted by norje

It saves you a lot of time, because you can designate certain plugins as network plugins and upload and activate them all at the same time.

When you are working on sites, you only need to have the one CPanel open as well.

Norje, can this be done using wordpress 3.0 or do I have to use a different version?

I'm going to spend a few hours on saturday installing wordpress on my test server and working out exactly which plugins I require ( I went a bit nuts at the beginning because I found wordpress a bit restrictive and ended up doubling up on plugins to customise certain things)

Scorpio9, thanks for the link to the theme, I didn't even notice it until I just read through the posts again.

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Norma Rickman 14 years ago

Originally Posted by reillymary56

Norje, can this be done using wordpress 3.0 or do I have to use a different version?

To use the multisite, you need WP 3.0. You can speed up installing plugins on any version of WordPress by creating a "super plugin" though. Essentially, you take all of the zipped plugins, unzip them, then zip them all back together and upload through CPanel.

Bam! You've just installed 20 plugins at one shot and can activate them all at once with the mass activation feature if you choose to do so.

Here's how to do it:

1-Unzip all the files you want to compile into the giant on your machine

2-place all the files you have from that task in a single file called "giant" or whatever you like

3-right click >> send to zip (if you plan to use cpanel to upload-no need to zip if you plan to ftp)

4-Upload and unzip to plugins folder

5-go to dash board and check for desired plugins

6-If you are missing one go back to cpanel

7-find plugin name and open that file

8-select all files

9-move to plugins folder

10-back to dashboard, files should be there and ready to activate

Easy peasy!
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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

Originally Posted by norje

It saves you a lot of time, because you can designate certain plugins as network plugins and upload and activate them all at the same time.

When you are working on sites, you only need to have the one CPanel open as well.

That's not what I was asking him.

You either didn't read what scorpio9 wrote or you didn't read my question.

(I don't want to think about the third option that you have no clue about WP...)

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scorpio9

14 years ago

Wordpress 3.0 network feature allows you to have subdomains or subdirectories on the same domain, so you can have

http://sub-domain1.maindomain.com or
http://maindomain.com/subfolder1/ but not both simultaneously

what I was suggesting and what I though the original question was "how to use 1 install for multiple domains", in other words "http://maindomain1.com" & "http://maindomain2.com" sharing same DB. This is very useful when you have hosting without access to a database server.

Each blog is a seperate install administered from its own admin panel.

p.s with the WP3.0 network option you can of course create DSN records to point your remote domain http://otherdomain.com at http://sub-domain1.maindomain.com or at http://maindomain/subfolder1/

Lee

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

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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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

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.

OP:
to have one wordpress install that could host multiple independent websites each on their on domain

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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scorpio9

14 years ago

OK, so how do you use multiple domains on the one installation in WP3. you have not actually said

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

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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scorpio9

14 years ago

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

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

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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scorpio9

14 years ago

and that is precisely what i said here

p.s with the WP3.0 network option you can of course create DSN records to point your remote domain http://otherdomain.com at http://sub-domain1.maindomain.com or at http://maindomain/subfolder1/

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

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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reillymary56

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

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

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.

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

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

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MrDay

14 years ago

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.

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markament

14 years ago

Wordpress is fantastic for DIY. Nothing better in my opinion than "Thesis" theme.

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

@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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