WordPress MU

A friend and I are trying out Wordpress, what we want to do is to have multiple blogs on the same site, one on the main page, and a different one under each tab of the main page. The tab navigation on the main page is to be shared across all the blogs. With users, and authors/admins logging in under one account, that would work across all these blogs, with everything following the same theme. We've been working on this for the last few days, on and off, and are just wondering if what we are trying to do is at all possible, and if it is, how should we start this process?

"A friend and I are trying out Wordpress, what we want to do is to have multiple blogs on the same site, one on the main page, and a different one under each tab of the main page. The tab navigation on the main page is to be shared across all the blogs. With users, and authors/admins logging in under one account, that would work across all these blogs, with everything following the same theme. We've been working on this for the last few days, on and off, and are just wondering if what we are trying to do is at all possible, and if it is, how should we start this process?"

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I'm not sure what that was, but do you think what my friend and I are attempting is possible with Wordpress Mu? Or should we try with another program?

That was a spam post. :)

As for your question, yes it is definitely possible. WPMU manages multiple blogs.

"one on the main page, and a different one under each tab of the main page. "

Well, you're in luck, because by default, the main page of the site is the first blog. As to the rest being under the tab in the theme, you'll have to actually alter the code in the theme.

Chances are, the theme uses the list_pages function to generate the tabs. you need the List All plugin to get the list of blog, then replace the pages function with the list all function to get the blog there instead of the main blog's pages.

Set the theme to be the default for all your blogs (stick it in the theme folder called "default"), and you're good.

Once the users are signed up and logged in, they're logged in across the site.

thank you for your response! we'll try it as soon as we can, later on today, to see if we can get it working.

With the list-all plugin, do I put that code where I want the links to show up, or as long as it's somewhere in the theme, it'll work and can be moved around?

List-all has a function call you place anywhere you want in the template files.

Given you want it in the nav bar instead of the usual list of pages, you replace what's there.

So yes - where you want the links to show up.

We put our list all code in ul and php tags in the appropriate place in the header file of the site, and the other blogs still do not display. Is there something we're doing wrong?

I'm sorry, I said that the other blogs aren't showing it... Every blog is showing the HOME button, which links to the main blog, however, none of the other blogs are showing on the nav bar.

Are you using the same theme on all blogs?

Yes we are, we even moved the theme into the default folder like Andrea_r said, so now even newly made blogs open with the theme. And for some reason it isn't showing up.

Gonna have to see a link.

sure, we have our site setup at:
http://reviewdistrict.net/blog and the other blogs are
reviewdistrict.net/blog/tech and /blog/sports

<ul>
      <li class="page_item current_page_item"><a href="http://reviewdistrict.net/blog/tech/">Home</a></li>
	 <li><a href='http://reviewdistrict.net/blog/tech'></a></li>
<li><a href='http://reviewdistrict.net/blog'></a></li>
<li><a href='http://reviewdistrict.net/blog/sports'></a></li>
</ul>

The links to the blog are there - there's just not text in it.

What code did you put in the theme? Paste it in between backticks.

<ul>
                               <li class="page_item <?php if(is_home()): ?>current_page_item<?php endif ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/">Home</a></li>
                             <?php list_all_wpmu_blogs('100', 'name', '<li>', '</li>', 'updated');?>
</ul>

That's what we have posted

Bump, is there anything we did wrong?

Forgot to output the name. :)

<?php list_all_wpmu_blogs('', 'name', '', '
', 'blog_name'); ?>

Is what I have on one of my sites.