WordPress MU

I just installed MU and i am playing around with it.
I am concerned i will not have enough control over the blogs.

I made 10 blogs as a test.
They all installed just fine.

But they all installed with the kubrick theme.

How do i change all of them to anther theme? Is there an easy way without going into each blog?

and What if i just want to change 5 of the blogs to one theme and leave 5 on the original.

Further to this, i want to be able to change all the taglines on all the blogs... again i dont want to have to log into each blog to do this. Is there an admin panel that allows you to make changes to things like Theme, Tagline, & plugins to all/some of your MU blogs?

Anybody?

I have the exact same question.

Sorry I can't answer it for you.

Well, how do you mean change all the themes? Did you want the blog to start off with a different default them? Because that's a slightly different question.

"Is there an admin panel that allows you to make changes to things like Theme, Tagline, & plugins to all/some of your MU blogs?"

Nope. It's done on an individual basis, as the program assumes each blog is run by whomever signed up for one.

Setting the theme requires updating 2 options in the options database table
for each blog ("template" and "stylesheet"). If you want the installed blogs to have a particular theme, you need to somehow update the options table for each blog in question correctly.

In fact, a lot of control of the blogs' configuration can be done by setting options appropriately.

As far as I know, there no user interface to do this for mutltiple blogs at one time. So this can be done by an external program (shell script, python, perl, etc. using sql). Or, by adding a function to xmlrpc.php, you can alter the options remotely.