Building a blog community with wordpress 3.0

[texashiker]

Now that wordpress 3.0 supports multiple blogs, is anyone looking into building a blog community?

After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to move forward with my blog community project. I was thinking about using wordpress MU. But since I already had wordpress 3 installed, I'am just going to use 3 instead of MU.

One of my spare domain names is a .us extension. So I thought, what better domain extension for a blog community then .us?

The only problem I'am having is the subdoamains, for some reason they do not want to resolve in DNS. So I contacted tech support last night. Hopefully they will have a solution today so I can get this project up and running.

I'll try to keep yall updated as things move forward.

[Andy101]

In your cpanel enter the wildcard * as a new sub-domain. That may solve your problem.

That is what I did to enable resolving of unlimited subdomains on HostGator.

[hendricius]

I'll probably start doing that, there is nothing better than running multiple blogs at once, the potential for profits keeps increasing drastically with each blog. I think word press is the only blog software to allow such a thing.

[Will.Spencer]

Now that wordpress 3.0 supports multiple blogs, is anyone looking into building a blog community?

Have you looked into bbPress, BuddyPress, or Simple:Press?

After thinking about it for a long time, I decided to move forward with my blog community project. I was thinking about using wordpress MU. But since I already had wordpress 3 installed, I'am just going to use 3 instead of MU.

WordpressMu merged into the main Wordpress code tree as of Wordpress 3.0.

I'll try to keep yall updated as things move forward.

Awesome!

[texashiker]

Thank you Will, that buddy press looks pretty nice, I might to take a serious look into it.

What it is, I have my own personal blog on domain A, forum on domain B, and domain C just sitting there. All three of the domain names are on related topics, so their going to target the same group - but in a different way.

My main blog takes up a lot of my time, so I have nothing left over to put towards domain C. So I thought about building a blogging / social networking community. That way other people can provide the content.

I got wordpress 3 setup for multiuser, but I have to add a wild card sub-domain. Its just something I have been neglecting to do.

[anantshri]

just a quick suggestion

if you are stuck with some host which doesn't allow wildcard subdomain.


just add those domains manually will also give the same output.

[texashiker]

just a quick suggestion

if you are stuck with some host which doesn't allow wildcard subdomain.

just add those domains manually will also give the same output.

Thank you, but I want something that is dynamic and flexible.

I also lease a dedicated server, so it should not be a big deal.

[garfish]

good luck to it. i assume you would allow the users to earn, how should they earn?

[xxtoni]

I'll probably start doing that, there is nothing better than running multiple blogs at once, the potential for profits keeps increasing drastically with each blog. I think word press is the only blog software to allow such a thing.

What about Drupal ?
It has quite powerful multi-blog capabilities.