MU: Can learn to love "The Merge"

[andrea_r]

Ah, yeah now I see... they were all on the main blog too, right?

Definitely 3.0 is easier to take an exisiting install from WP to being the main blog on a network. i'm still expecting adding additional existing blogs to a new network is going to be the same process it has been.

[Ipstenu]

Yeah, they were all on the main blog. Adding additional, though, is the same as it ever was (which was pretty painless for my smaller second blog).

[mfields]

THanks to everyone who responded to this thread! Lots of helpful information to get me on my way putting this together!!!

Hmm you should consider the SEO implications also. Sub-domains are considered separate sites. Basically your are splitting a large site into many small ones.
So if you merge everything to the top level domain you probably got a duplicate content problem also if the whole posts are "reposted" there.

Thanks for the info... I was unaware that subdomains are viewed by search engines as separate site. This is good to know. As far as the duplicate content issue, I don't believe that this would be a problem in my case... The reason I asked was because it would be nice to be able to easily pull all "News Posts" from the individual blogs and display them in descending order by post date.

@andrea_r - Thanks for all the information + links. This will be very helpful once 3.0 is unleashed and I put this into place. I checked with my host and it looks like they do not allow wildcard DNS or wildcard sub-domains so it looks like I will be stuck using a folder-based system which I don't mind actually.

Don't use Mu though. Wait for WordPress 3.0 as MU is finally getting integrated into the core.

Rich - This is exactly what I'm planning to do. I've read here and there about MU in the past but never really bothered installing it and hacking around because I didn't have a goal in mind. Now I do and am excited about it!

[Jeffro]

Good luck and let us know when the site goes live so we can see your implementation :)

[chipbennett]

I've read here and there about MU in the past but never really bothered installing it and hacking around because I didn't have a goal in mind. Now I do and am excited about it!

I wish I had a use-case for MU... I think it would be fun to play around with. Unfortunately, I just don't have such a use-case. Maybe one day.

As Jeff said: looking forward to seeing what you do with it!

[mfields]

Will post back when the time comes for sure, Here's where I'm at so far with the art section using a single installation: http://art.mfields.org/walk-towards-the-sun/ definitely rough around the edges, but once I work it all out, I'm gonna release the theme all free and gpl and stuff :)