Comments on: Setup Two (or Multiple) Blogs in Wordpress

By: abrudtkuhl

abrudtkuhl — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:25:22 +0000

I agree

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:51:00 +0000

I would say if there is a possibility of someday having over 2. Easier to use it from the start.

By: abrudtkuhl

abrudtkuhl — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:43:36 +0000

Yea I'd say anything over 2

By: Mahendra

Mahendra — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:08:21 +0000

Andy,

Thanks! I guess I should have at least mentioned WPMU in the post. I wonder at what point it becomes optimal to use MU – 3 blogs or 4?

By: abrudtkuhl

abrudtkuhl — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:18:20 +0000

Great overview!

Couple points - If you are going to be setting up multiple WP blogs, do so with WordPress MU. believe me - it will save you headaches down the road if you continue adding blogs. Why? It's so much easier to update one set of core files than many.. Also you can manage plugins and themes much easier.

I always install WP in the root - for SEO purposes it's a no-brainer.

As far as after installation goes - I configure, setup backups first thing (http://bit.ly/backupplugin), then Seo/Google plugins, etc

By: Mahendra

Mahendra — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:14:45 +0000

Priyank,

You are right. It should be the other way round! Many thanks for pointing it out.

By: Priyank

Priyank — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:51:39 +0000

Hi Mahendra,

I agree with all your arguments and indeed that's why I did exactly what you did (except that I no longer point my travel blog to the root.)

Oh, why do you say: "Is heavy traffic and site performance a consideration? In that case, using a single database might help site optimization." Wouldn't it be better to have separate databases to keep them from interfering? Simply because having too many tables and entries in one database but queried by two different blogs sounds kinda cumbersome, especially if you (and you will) use cache plugins.

By: Mahendra

Mahendra — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:44:19 +0000

Even I didn't know many of these until I jumped in the water. The important thing is to ask questions and search for answers before each step you take.

By: Vikas Gupta

Vikas Gupta — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:11:46 +0000

There were many things in this post that I did not know unlike the volume 1! Thank you. Waiting for part 3. Have many questions but will ask them while I am hosting my own blog.