WordPress MU

I have installed the MU blog without issue and it's really quite nifty how easy it was. I have installed it on the root directory for clean URL's using subs so the result is userblog.domain.com.

My question:

I would prefer to not use the default / root blog which is displayed when you reference my http://www.domain.com site. I would like to do that as providing the free blog service is only a fraction of what I'm doing and the front page I need for general site usage. In order to do this I need to rename the index.php to something else so my index.shtml becomes default. This, though, has all the other blogs resulting in the display of that index.shtml page as well.

Any suggestions on how to have the blogs reference an altered index.php in the root?

Thanks,

South Fork

Um, not really.

Get into the spirit of templates, and make a site. ;)

lunabyte, that's 10 seconds I'll never get back.

Anyone else?

10 seconds you'll never get back?

Then I guess you do not comprehend the power of the WP template system.

Guess I'll refrain from answering your questions then. Sorry I bothered. Sheesh.

Anyone else?

You really think you;re going to get an answer after that comment?

We're here on our own time to help folks. Insulting us isn't the way to go when you need help and I for one am damn tired of it.

edit: Added modlook yet again but it seems like Automattic is allowing the personal attacks to occur. Thanks guys. Once again we see that you don't give a crap about the folks trying to help out around here.

The question was straight forward and simple enough. The answer was a quip and then off topic. If it seams my response was less than impressed nothing was lost in the message.

I don't really want to get involved in the politics here. But, does anyone have an answer to the original question?

I'm interested in using wpmu as a CMS. However, I do not want wpmu to manage the site's homepage.

Thanks!

"The question was straight forward and simple enough. The answer was a quip and then off topic. If it seams my response was less than impressed nothing was lost in the message."

Well, excuuuusssssseeeeeeee me!

I answered, straight forward and simple enough.

Why try to fight the system, when the WP template system provides EVERYTHING you could possibly need?

Want a custom home page? Is that it?

/themes/your-home-theme/home.php

Code it 'til your hearts content.

Nothing says you even have to use WP template tags in there.

When WP loads the home page, for the primary blog, that's the file it loads if its available. The home.php file from the theme that the primary blog is set to use.

You can do anything within that file. Make it a solid html doc, with no php whatsoever? OK. Make it look like the front page of Digg? OK.

Make it include another file from within the system? OK.

So maybe instead of being such a smart ass when someone was seriously trying to point out the most logical option (so everything stays happily balanced and content) is really pretty damn rude.

Is perhaps your level of knowledge not up to snuff to run MU? You do realize what MU is intended for, right, and that it's not a "simple money maker"?

So yeah, my original comment is spot on. Learn to work with the template system, and all will be well. Anything is possible with it.

Tell you what lunabyte, sorry for the response. Yes, it was rude. I'll add a bit before slithering off without my soup.

The usage of home.php within a home specific template can result in any desired look and feel, true enough. The process has been discussed before and many find that acceptable.

...By default, I don't. I would prefer the output of a high volume page does not rely on any process that brings no content or content management benefit to the desired output, especially if there exists any DB queries. Cacheing may make that concern a moot point but relying on an assumption that others have had simular concerns I think it's still worth asking.

To be honestly blunt, if it's a resource concern (as it sounds), it really is a moot point.

It isn't going to take down your server, or increase demand enough to really bother with. It that were a concern, what would be the point of a dynamic site to begin with, let alone running MU at all?

What happens if one of your bloggers gets popular, for example? Move their front page to a static one? That seems to be the logic I see you trying to apply. MU can handle it, and the hassle of hacking about to make it work honestly isn't worth the effort.

So, to sum it up, if it's a resource concern, it really isn't a concern in terms that the rest of the site(s) will be powered by MU anyway.

Yes, the concern is resource. Not with regards to MU specifically but with the server already. An active forum, an active gallery, KB, along with another popular dynamic app of mine with the sites current activity and the server I'm on had been stressed. The dedicated server I'm on can't option out much more so the next step is a second server which I'd like to put off for as long as I can.

App consolidation, memcache usage on the forum along with focus on small ball items to limit the DB queries has the server happy again. I'm hoping after I flip the current site to the new one that further approach changes will net additional room for potential blog popularity, as you noted.

I'll move foward as is and revisit it as needed.

Thanks for the feedback.

That would be the way to roll really.

If you're going to run MU, it's going to have to be accessed at some point, regardless. IMHO, limiting out a single page isn't going to help much.

If need be though, yes it is possible.

It all starts with index.php (in the root, not the theme), and under what conditions it includes wp-blog-header.

Thanks. In my case, the 'home page' is already managed by a different CMS. I'd like to add wpmu installed at the root of my server to manage some additional sub-sites. So, I'd rather not have to use the /wp-content/themes/home/home.php route, if I can avoid it.

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yogkarma, please stop spamming the forums.

It’s not Spam, I just though person is in same situation. You think mydomain.com is for which I am working then it’s just a co-incidence I use that name.

Any help greatly appreciated.

SPAM is an old business now. And SPAM is still a boom.

It's spam when you post it twice and so soon.

That's why I removed the one just above.