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#1 2009-02-10 01:22:42

mericson
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Migrating to multiple blogs...

I’m interested in taking an existing textpattern implementation, which is effectively a single blog, and expand it to multiple blogs under separate subdomains, perhaps by each having its own section.

For example, original blog at http://www.domain.foo/ becomes a landing page with links to blogs, the original blog moves to http://blog1.domain.foo/ and a new blog is introduced as http://blog2.domain.foo/

My question are:

  • How practical is it to support multiple blogs by using sections?
    • what are the drawbacks? (search, about, RSS feed, homepage, plugins, etc.)
    • Would be a lot simpler just to have two textpattern installations?
  • What do I need to do, if anything, to allow original links from www.domain.foo to continue to work?
    • http://www.domain.foo/1234/article-title still loads article id 1234
  • Is there a safe way to redirect old articles to the new?
    • http://www.domain.foo/1234/article-title to http://blog1.domain.foo/1234/article-title
  • If linking directly to the article, does the article’s section make sure it is presented with the correct section design?

Last edited by mericson (2009-02-10 01:24:13)

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#2 2009-02-13 16:17:56

mericson
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Re: Migrating to multiple blogs...

Well, that question was a resounding flop!

I guess I’m going to go with two separate Textpattern installations on the server. Probably a lot easier than trying to have a section per subdomain and also try to make plugins and everything else separate the two sections. I know I already have some plugins (e.g. tru_tags) which won’t let me partition my sections effectively.

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#3 2009-02-13 17:01:51

jakob
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Re: Migrating to multiple blogs...

I’ve never tried it myself but maybe ied_if_domain is what you’re looking for. I’m sure it’s been asked before so also try searching the forum thoroughly.


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