WordPress MU

I'm not a coder, but a blogger in DR Congo, our coders are in Europe. A couple of months ago they changed over our blogs from Wordpress to Wordpress Multiuser, and as such have changed all our URLs from

http://wildlifedirect.org/blogname

to http://wildlifedirect.org/blogAdmin/blogname

They tell us that this cannot be changed and it must remain like this, is this true?

Internet connections are also very slow and unreliable here in Africa, and to blog online using Wordpress is a nightmare (literally takes hours), before with the old Wordpress we used to use an offline blogging editor called Zoundry, which would reliably upload our posts, plus photos etc, once online. However this has now become unusable with Wordpress Multiuser and we are also unable to make any of the other offline blog editors work.

Does anyone know why Zoundry won't work, or have any tips on what we should do to make it work.

PS. I'm sorry if I should have put this second point in a separate message

"They tell us that this cannot be changed and it must remain like this, is this true?"

It looks like someone installed it in a subdirectory called /blogadmin/ instead of the root folder. If it were moved or reinstalled there, then the URLs would be what you want.

-- Does anyone know why Zoundry won't work, or have any tips on what we should do to make it work.

Have the users updated the urls used in Zoundry? For example Elie Mundima should be posting to
http://www.wildlifedirect.org/blogAdmin/elie/xmlrpc.php

Thank you for getting back to me. Andrea, how difficult would it be to reinstall the blogs into the root folder? Is that a really big job or would it just take a few hours?

Being a charity, it is really important for us to keep the old URLs because of all the people that were subscribed to our feeds, and I'm sure as well keeping the old URLs would have helped our SEO.

If you have to keep the URLs and with your level of experience (Sorry, being honest) I'd just leave it. If this is not a new install, you would wind up having to change each and every single one of those URLs with the database and that would be a chore.

Hello Iolaire, yes we, and our other bloggers, have updated the URLs in Zoundry but there is just no recognition of the blogs.

One of our bloggers has being able to make the offline editor BlogDesk work, but unfortunately no one else was able to. It is the only editor that allows bloggers to sign up to their blogs using the new URLs (logging in and downloading categories etc) but only 1 blogger has being able to use it to upload posts.

I have tried all other editors found on this list: http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_Support
but none of them work. Could this be something to do with the way our blogs have been registered with Wordpress Multiuser?

Hello drmike, don't worry I'm well aware of my own lack of experience, but we do pay guys to do all this stuff for us.

At present we really don't have that many blogs -less than twenty- so would it still be such a chore?