WordPress MU

Hi There,

We are adding a news feature to our network of sites. I've looked around and it seems the Wordpress MU may be the best choice for us. WE will have a series of reporters postign stories accross the network of sites, and one editor approving them and publishing them. There are a few questions that I have and perhaps you can help me.

First, due to the fact that the network of sites is already set up, I will need to install Wordpress in a folder. Currently all sites run of the same core set of files and choose new data based on the domain accessing the site. So the installation will be in one folder, but accessed like this:

http://www.domain1.com/news/
http://www.domain2.com/news/
http://www.domain3.com/news/
http://www.domain4.com/news/
etc...

There is close to 100 domains in total. From what I understand this is not officially possible? I cannot install WP in the site root folder, so are there any plugins or unofficial hacks that will get this to work? I've looked into the domain mapping and multi-site plugins, but these don't seem to support this either.

The other thing is that some of the blog posts will be relevant to more than one site, so is it possible publish one post accross multiple sites?

I think I had another question but I forget what it was.

"I've looked into the domain mapping and multi-site plugins, but these don't seem to support this either."

This one will:
http://wpmututorials.com/simple-multi-site-plugin-e-book/

Thanks for that link. Does this plugin allow you to post accross multiple blogs?

Nope. Need a different plugin for that. :)

(I can't think of any.)

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic/11429?replies=4

I am trying to do the same thing you are doing; I will get around to working with a friend over the next few weeks and maybe come up with something.

If you come up with a way to post across all blogs, let me know. I will post it here as soon as I have something.

Also, if you want to do this, bear in mind that the best functions of picking up information to post is through an rss, and that Google, as well as server space, is not a fan of duplicate content.

So if you ever want to make a function, think about creating one post, then when you expand to to other blogs, expand just the link, and have the post redirect. I have a redirect plugin that redirects a post to any URL on the net, and plan to use it to redirect all the post to one blog, instead of 50 posts in 50 blogs.

At the same time, navigation would get confusing if someone goes to one blog and can't find their way back, so if I did make a post-to-multiple-blogs function, I would create the option of a redirect or a full-copy.

Just a thought. I have also wished this for a long time, and wish that I had more knowledge of php and the MU tables than I do now ( and less school )

Also with multi-site, it would be a different beast altogether ( than when I planned it for just a subdir form ).

"the best functions of picking up information to post is through an rss"

Um, but not within a WPMU install. It'll hork up your RAM. And it won't fill up your server space, but it WILL blog the db. (which, technically also lives on the server, but we're splitting hairs here).

I don't think we are talking about the same thing Andrea.

What I meant is that if he runs into a wall of spreading information then he can use an rss feed for a main part of his blog. With an MU install, unless he has hundreds of blogs constantly querying for information, he should be fine.

My whole point about the information is the ability to redirect, and rss feeds can be managed to check on something and not query every time it comes up.

But these posts are missing the point to the user's needs.