Thread: How you would you approach this

If you had xxx amount of domains all on one server and wanted to have them all to use the same Wordpress theme and use pretty much all the same info in the database (like settings and plugins) except the content how would you approach that?

Will only be a single page of content on each one like this

swallowtailinn.com

but each site would have different content

Would Wordpress mu be what I would want to look for this? Or would there be a better approach.

To be honest been half tempted to change a wordpress template to a single html page and upload that to each site and then upload content to each one so then its just a single html page with no back end.

This is strange, can't you just upload the same files over and over again.. With the plugins already installed and the theme too.. without any posts database. Than just update every blog from scratch...

This is how I would do it I guess..

Another idea to keep the space used on the server down is to use say symlinks on the index page, css and images. Then in the index page have line like

Code:

<?php include '$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].php';?>

or something like this

Code:

<?php 
$domain_name = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
if (strpos($domain_name, "www.") === 0)
    $domain_name = substr($domain_name, 4); 
?>

<?php include '$domain_name.php';?>

Not sure if the php is right but I am probably fairly close

Then I would have xxx amount of php file with the domain name.php that could be changed easily without having to switch in between folders all the files would be in one location.

WordPress MU !