WordPress MU

Dear Users i want to install multiple blogs with one user database. It is not like Mu wordpress . wordpress Mu is every user having their own blog.

What i am expecting is. I want to setup multiple blogs like

http://www.host.com/blog1/
http://www.host.com/blog2/
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http://www.host.com/blogn/

One set of user authentication table and usermeta table is exist and each blog has their own set of tables

may be in single database or in multiple databases.

Can you provide me the solution?

Thanks in advance.
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Hitardha.

You just described what wpmu does.

Thanks for your reply jackiedobson

But i need something different

i have installed wordpress mu and tested my requirement. I dont want users to create new blogs. only admin can create new blogs and the users can be only authors. i want to restrict users to post articles.

Please help me

You can at least prevent users from register blogs on their own by checking "Disabled" or "Enabled for users only. Only user account can be created" under "Allow new registrations" in Site Admin - Options

But I'm not sure what is the best way of making users only authors.

The easiest way would probably be letting people sign up for users only, and then you create the blog for them and add the user as "Author" to the new blog.

thats easy. this can be handled strictly with user roles and a theme that supports multiple loops - like Apathy. Adjust your default user roles. check out the tdo mini form plugin for WP.

i guess you could do the same with categories. i'e seen multiloop themes that place posts according to their category. i.e. featured posts are sticky and top-center.

when my mu site was getting a little overwhelming, i tried this set up for a few weeks. it aint no where near as powerful as Mu, but it's good for an online magazine.

Thanks for your quick replies. And in Mu wordpress it is using same database to create tables for all.

If i want to create table for each blog in one domain and my user tables in another domain. just like

user tables - login database

blog1 tables - database1

blog2 tables - database2

blog3 tables - database3

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blogn tables - databasen

I feel this scenario is very good for trouble shooting and recovery.

But for this when we are accessing each blog we have to connect two databases all the time.

Thanks in Advance.

One more thing i want is. the new users who ever registered in my mu blog automatically become the author for all existing blogs.

If any new blog is defined. all existing users should become authors automatically to that new blog.

I am Very thankful to the one who solved my problem.

Thanks in Advance.

I don't want to open new thread, so I'll ask here.
Is it possible to have blogs with one MU installation that will have address like this:
domain.com/blog1
domain.com/blog2
blog3.domain.com
blog4.domain.com
and more complicated (not so necessary)
domain.com/something/blog5
domain.com/something/blog6
blog7.com

I want to use this for my projects so public registration and choosing address is not needed.

You cannot mix domain.com/blog2 and blog3.domain.com.

you can, however, make either of those blogwhatever.com.

Thanks for reply!

you can, however, make either of those blogwhatever.com.

What does you mean by this?

once your install is set up, search the forums for domain mapping. There's also instructions here:
http://bui4ever.com/web-itecture/wordpress_mu_with_domain_mapping

This way, a sub-blog can have its own domain name.