Wordpress-Mu Limitations

**dmi** · 21 April, 2009, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Building sites that don't require a lot of maintenance.

But that's not really a secret.

That's not what I was referring to. It's not like you just build a site and it makes you money. What about link building for each one of them? Getting them to make you, for example, $1 per day?

**Shenron** · 21 April, 2009, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

I am going to improve my own home-grown scripts for keeping Wordpress and its associated plugins up-to-date.

It would be great if this tool was shareable.

**ankit** · 21 April, 2009, 12:16 PM

Although I run a bloghost using wpmu with over 500 users but all my blogs are self-hosted wordpress blogs

**Will.Spencer** · 21 April, 2009, 18:28 PM

Originally Posted by Shenron

It would be great if this tool was shareable.

It would be great if the code was good enough to share.

But... that is on the ToDo list...

Originally Posted by dmi

That's not what I was referring to. It's not like you just build a site and it makes you money. What about link building for each one of them? Getting them to make you, for example, $1 per day?

I have one advantage here -- I can link these new sites from my existing web empire.

I am hoping that the exact match keyword domain name bonus will make ranking these sites almost automatic. Few of these sites are targeting really competitive keywords.

If that needs some help, I'll put a few bucks into article marketing.

If none of that works, I'll probably give up. None of these keywords are worth enough money to justify significant investment.

**Shenron** · 21 April, 2009, 18:33 PM

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

It would be great if the code was good enough to share.

But... that is on the ToDo list...

I've been thinking (and yes, sometimes I try

) that a nice script that could "automate" all those upgrades would get viral in less than a beer slurp.

WE NEED A BEER SMILIE!!!

**Will.Spencer** · 21 April, 2009, 21:14 PM

Originally Posted by Shenron

I've been thinking (and yes, sometimes I try

) that a nice script that could "automate" all those upgrades would get viral in less than a beer slurp.

It's actually really simple.

Download latest.zip
Uncompress it.
Delete the wp-content folder
Copy it over all of your Wordpress installations
Connect to your Wordpress AdminCP's to update the databases ( if necessary )

Originally Posted by Shenron

WE NEED A BEER SMILIE!!!

You deserve a beer smilie!

**Shenron** · 21 April, 2009, 21:53 PM

Well, I know that part, but when you need to do it 50 times without a script...

BTW... I was talking about including all the plugins there also.

**Will.Spencer** · 21 April, 2009, 22:07 PM

Plugins are easy too. Just upgrade the plugins on one site, then copy your wp-content/plugins/ directory to all your other Wordpress sites.

**tmongy** · 27 May, 2009, 13:47 PM

Originally Posted by Will.Spencer

Building a whole lot of mini-sites.

How do you define a mini-site? How many pages would that be?

Also, how is it going with your 100 mini-sites?

**Will.Spencer** · 27 May, 2009, 14:14 PM

Originally Posted by tmongy

How do you define a mini-site? How many pages would that be?

How does "a site with less than ten pages" sound as a definition?

Originally Posted by tmongy

Also, how is it going with your 100 mini-sites?

Far more slowly than I had anticipated.

But, I am persevering and will get them into production eventually.

Then begins the link building phase.

One of the first sites to be "completed" is getting an on-again/off-again position at #9 in the Google SERPS.