WordPress MU

Hi,

I am new to Wordpress. I was trying to set things up on b2evolution but it just seems Wordpress has many more plugins and features that I wanted that b2evo didn't have. So here I am.

I am setting up a blogging network at http://www.worldblogosphere.com.

Here is the list of things I need to know. I searched for many of them within the forum but either I am searching the wrong terms or the answers aren't there.

1) Where is my header file for WordPressMU? I want to add an image there instead of the basic site name.

2) It is set now to where users register and start their blogs in a sub-domain. That is perfect. However at some point I wish to transfer some of their blogs onto their own domain names.
Example: http://www.prosportswrapup.worldblogosphere.com... would be transferred to http://www.prosportswraup.com

3) Similar to the previous one. My site is currently listed as http://worldblogosphere.com/wpmu/wordpress-mu-2.6.5/

How can I get it to just be http://www.worldblogosphere.com? For now I have the regular address redirecting to the long annoying on.

4)I currently have about 180 themes loaded that I want users to be able to choose from. Is there a way for me to setup which plugins the themes will have and make it so the users cannot change them?

I have more questions, but these are the most important ones at the moment.

Thanks to anyone that might be able to help me.

Gene :-)
WorldBlogosphere.com

1 - in the theme folder
2 - use the domain Mapping plugin (in the official repository)
3 - reinstall MU in the root, not in all those subfolders
4 - The themes themsevles may call plugins, but soemone has to activate them usually. You can make the plugins page inaccessable (it's turned off by default) and you can manage all-off or all-on plugins via Plugin Commander (it's a plugin), or you can just edit the theme's functions.php file to include the plugin code you want. No activation required.

Hi Andrea,

Thanks for the help.

1)I didn't want to change stuff in the theme folder for when users want to pick that theme. I went ahead and copied the same theme and put a new name on it. I will use it as my theme only.

2)This doesn't seem to work on my web host.

3)Only reason I didn't do that in the first place is because the installation instructions said to put it in all those sub-folders.

4)I actually found the Plugin Commander shortly after I posted this.

Again, thanks for the help.
Gene :-)

3)Only reason I didn't do that in the first place is because the installation instructions said to put it in all those sub-folders.

Which installation instructiosn told you to do this? I have never seen that. Just move all of your files into the root and either reinstall or change the entries in the database where you have the URLs (safest to just reinstall).

BTW, good choice to make a copy of your theme for your main blog - that is the best way to do it. However, you should disable that theme now in "site-admin"/"themes" so others can't select it. It will still work for your main blog.

Hi Bert,

Well it was prior to me finding out there was an actual WordPressMU page. So I guess it was somewhere within the wordpress.org site. It also gave me the 2.6.5 version. Then two days later when I found the MU site and actually reinstalled it I also redownloaded it onto my computer. This download gave me 2.7.
By the way is the Admin area for 2.7 brand new? It looks entirely different then the first version I had two days ago.

Thanks for the advice on deactivating the renamed theme. I didn't realize I could do that and still have it work for me. this might actually answer a question I have in another thread that you are responding too. Maybe I should create a new renamed theme for each new blog as they go and then deactivate the theme so others can't choose it.

Thanks,
Gene :-)