Comments on: Virtual Multiblog for WordPress

By: Stephen R

Stephen R — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:02:46 +0000

David Lockie — It appears that your setup should work, but I’ve never actually tested with a catch-all virtualhost.

Virtual Multiblog defaults to the first user on the list any time it can’t determine which user it should use; so somewhere it’s not figuring out the right domain, or not finding a matching config file.. Are your config files named properly? Also check out the PHP variables to double check what server/domain PHP thinks it’s running on. Look at the troubleshooting info under the Dashboard menu in Admin.

By: Stephen R

Stephen R — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:51:11 +0000

Belated reply to Jose Luis: The issues you’re having with WP_PLUGIN_DIR etc. are almost certainly bugs in the plugins. Literally what VMB does with $vmb_const entries is convert them all to constants anyway, so they should work *exactly* the same as constants set normally in WordPress. (So why have $vmb_const at all? It’s in preparation for a planned feature down the road that will require VMB to read multiple config files — since you can’t set the same constant twice, I established a standard so you don’t directly set any constants in the config files.)

By: harris

harris — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:04:55 +0000

am so happy now. Thank you. This is truly the most important discovery I have made in the WP world since 2010
—-mcse—-

By: Nokao

Nokao — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:43:44 +0000

Yes this stuff is great

It’s nearly 2 years that I’m using it.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:53:41 +0000

OMFG I toyed with this and it actually works. I cannot believe it. I just setup 30 blogs. It took me longer to find this information than to actually do it. I am so happy now. Thank you. This is truly the most important discovery I have made in the WP world since 2006. Thank you again.

By: David Lockie

David Lockie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:09:11 +0000

Hi Stephen. Just made a small donation towards your excellent work. Let me know if you don’t get it as it definitely got sent.

I’m having trouble with vuser determination – my top vuser blog keeps showing.

My domains are all pointed using records straight to my server’s IP. I’m using a catch-all virtualhost to direct all my VMB WP domains to the WP directory (to separate VMB blogs from standard flat sites).

Some domain names (subdomain.domain.com and domain.com) work fine. Newer additions just don’t seem to find their way past default. I’m not using domain.com/blog.

I’ve tried setting up individual virtualhosts for each domain (no success).

If I move domains about in the vuser stack, I can get them all to show, but only by making them the default.

Anyone got any ideas? I’ll keep playing and if I work out why it’s happening or how to fix/workaround, I’ll post back. Maybe I need to use the advanced setup and create domain-specific config files?

Setup:
VMB 2.5
WP 2.9
Running on a WAMP stack – Windows 2003 Server

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Update on the Status of Wordpress 3.0 » The Chronicles of My Life — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:47:24 +0000

[...] since they are merging the cores of Wordpress and Wordpress MU. This blog currently uses the Multiblog plugin (well, it’s not really a plugin, but rather a script to allow for multiple blogs under [...]

By: Stephen R

Stephen R — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:31:30 +0000

The most basic difference is that WordPress MU has a single admin for all the different blogs; while Virtual Multiblog creates completely separate blogs with separate admin section, users, etc.

Also, I have heard that in MU it is sort of difficult to add a new blog later after initial setup. In VMB it is quite easy.