WordPress MU

Hi,

I have a question about using Wordpress for multiple blogs. I've been working on my site on the Wordpress platform for the last few weeks now. The format I would like to set up is a homepage that aggregates the newest posts from all contributors, like a normal blog. However, when you click on the contributor name at the top of the post, it then takes you to the author's own blog page. Easy enough to accomplish, so far. Here is a link to what my individual page looks like after some editing to the author.php file.

Here is where it gets tricky. I can use php to call separate "sub headers" (the picture with the "Little Society" title) for each author. But I'm having trouble figuring out how to implement this so that each user will have a unique sidebar. Is there a way to do this on the standard Wordpress platform, or is what I describe more suited to a Wordpress MU installation?

Thanks!

I think you would be better off just staying with Wordpress. But if you are planning to give users the ability to blog or add pages, then maybe it would be wiser to use the Wordpress MU platform. At this moment I think it would be overkill.

To solve your problem I would make a plugin where in the profile page, the option would be given to the user to add or delete widgets to their own sidebar. Store it under their username in a database table and read it out with their username in the author.php.

Hope it helps you.

Thanks for the tip, Andrew. For those who are interested, I was able to implement unique widgets in each sidebar with a plugin called My Custom Widgets.