Dont know if SO is the appropriate place to ask this question, but anyway ...
I have some sites running Wordpress and maintaining/managing them is a pain. Is there any CMS or blogging platform out there that support multiple sites/blogs in one codebase ? I know there are some hacks for Wordpress but they are quite ugly and do not scale (i need 100-1000 blogs supported). WPMU AFAIK run with subdomains only.
Thanks in advance.
I'm fairly certain you can use WordPress MU in a sub directory versus a sub domain.
WordPress Hive is an alternative to WordPress MU. I'd imagine you're going to have to do some more research and reading before you make a decision.
Wordpress 3 - scheduled for release this month - combines the code bases of Wordpress and Wordpress MU and supports mutliple sites, multiple domains, etc., out of the box: Version 3.0 Project Schedule « WordPress Development Updates
WPMU will support multiple sites, but it's a bit tricky to implement on some hosts. WP 3.0 will roll in WPMU's multi-site features sometime very soon.
In the meantime, I use a WordPress plug-in called Hive to manage multiple installations. I have some sites set up as subdomains pointing to the same WordPress installation and some sites that are completely separate domains pointing to the same thing. It's a great way to use one WordPress codebase to manage multiple sites (one set of plug-in upgrades, on set of themes, etc).
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If I'm using the free version of WordPress to build my blog, would it be worth getting WordPress hosting through HostGator?
https://www.hostgator.com/managed-wordpress-hosting
The blog is very image heavy and it has some JavaScript so I'm worried about speed. I'll also be using a "comment" plug-in (disqus?). It's hard coded so no templates. I'm not sure if that matters.
Also, would it be worth upgrading to the premium version of WordPress for this same concern?
https://wordpress.com/pricing/
So there are effectively two platforms. WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
Upgrading to the 'premium' version of WordPress is on the .com side, which means they would host your site, whereas hostgator is a hosting company that would host the .org part of WordPress. You would have to migrate from .com to .org for the hostgator. But if it's a small project and you're inexperienced I would recommend upgrading on the current set up.
The biggest differences you will see with creating a Wordpress site on a 3rd party host such as Hostgator vs. working within the Wordpress network itself is the catered support and tools you get.
If you already know what you are doing; creating databases, FTP access, resource management, you would be fine uploading an installation of Wordpress on any hosting provider. However, they most likely won't be top tier experts in using Wordpress and their main goal would be to keep the server that you are on running. Software updates and config changes such as php versions and some rules needing to be whitelisted would be the suspected level of support.
At Wordpress, at certain levels they offer cultivated aid (based on the sales page.) They also have hosting that is specifically tailored to work with Wordpress. If you are just starting, or even a super user that has WP specific needs, WP.com would be a good option.
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I've been developing a Wordpress site for the last few months with the aim to make it a e-commerce website. I recently came across Magento and realised It is an extremely powerful e-commerce framework.
I was wondering whether anyone has any advice for Wordpress and Magento integration. Is it better to have Magento at the root as the CMS and use Wordpress for the blogging aspect, or is it just as feasible the other way around?
I was also wondering if it's worth me just creating a Magento theme based around my current Wordpress theme instead?
I think the latter is the best option here. I use Magento for an Ecommerce platform and Wordpress for the associated blog. Each has their strengths and weaknesses. Play to the strongest part of each and use Magento separately from Wordpress. Believe it or not, you'll save time even though you are using both platforms independently. Plus, Wordpress has been known to have minor to major security issues in the past. Plus, I wouldn't put the engine that's going to be providing me with a paycheck in a position that it was never intended to handle --> ecommerce.
I was using self-hosted wordpress for a while and now I want to move all posts, settings to my wordpress.com account. I mean I want create free wordpress hosted account and move all data from self-hosted account into it. Is that possible? if yes, how? please explain
Although this isn't the usual direction to move, WordPress has documented it here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/
Megatron, I've seen a few of your posts about this hack. Its an up-to-date Wordpress install with very few plugins. By the sounds of things (and I may well be wrong here), I doubt you have done a huge amount of customisation yourself which could have introduced a vulnerability.
It could well be your theme but frankly my money is on your hosts themselves. Wordpress is so prolific that when a hosting company running many shared servers gets hacked there are inevitably loads of Wordpress sites that get compromised as a result and Wordpress gets the blame. The hosting company certainly don't own up to it.
Before you go to .com, switch hosts. Clean install, plenty of guides out there on resurrecting a Wordpress site - you've said yourself on other threads the site is only a week old so it'll be very easy to do. My 2p.
i have created a website for a non profit organization. People on the site want to post stuff . i want to figure out the best way to allow them to do this.
Can i host a wordpress site and somehow embed it into my website
Do i need to install some whole CMS solution?
Other solutions for supporting user driven posts.
to clarify, the functionality of wordpress is all i need (people posting content and pictures).
It's easy to integrate Wordpress into a static html site.
Integrating WordPress with Your Website « WordPress Codex. (You do need mysql, but almost every hosting company out there offers it.)
If you want to convert an existing html site to Wordpress, look at Theme Development « WordPress Codex. Developing Wordpress themes is no more complex than other CMS's, and here are lots of tutorials out there. You divide up your html into header.php, index.php, page.php, footer.php, etc., and css into style.css. If you do a standard Wordpress theme, then plugins will work fine.
Go ahead and do a full install of Wordpress; there's no option for a minimum install. WP is small, anyway.
If you need a finer degree of working with editors, subscribers and contributors than Wordpress offers out of the box, look at different plugins that offer role managing capability, giving administrators the power to give different levels of permissions to users to write, edit and publish. WordPress › Search for roles « WordPress Plugins
You can pull other content into Wordpress via RSS, too, and either have that content appear as an RSS feed, or have it integrated into published posts. FeedWordPress | simple and flexible Atom/RSS syndication for WordPress
You can get a free account at wordpress.com and try out a limited version of Wordpress, limited in that it is hosted by wordpress.com and you have a small number of plugins and css modifications you can make. But once you selfhost Wordpress, then you can do much more with it in terms of plugins and adapting the css to an existing site.
You could use a Wiki.
There are a few popular free Wiki packages out there these days. By far the most popular would be the framework behind Wikipedia - MediaWiki. Wikis' are a proven way to let users create the content, with systems in place to prevent vandalism/spam. MediaWiki also has a whole bunch of great plug-ins for anything you would need.
Another Wiki option is to use the Wordpress-Wiki plug-in for Wordpress. It lets you use Wordpress, but with some features of a Wiki. Not as feature rich as MediaWiki, but a good option if you really like Wordpress.
You do not need to install a whole cms solution, though wordpress can host an entire site, not just blogs.
You could hack it by using a hosted weordpress and displaying it in an iframe (this one might get some flames - but it works and it's easy)
You could also install wordpress on your server. By the sounds of it this is not your expertise, and while setting up wordpress is getting easier every release, for smaller sites I would much rather recommend pivotx
wordpress has a lot of overhead and requires a mysql database. The templated, while there are more available than in pivotx are harder to create. So I'm suggesting the other solution because it does the bulk of what wordpress does, and though it has far far far fewer plugins, it is a lot easier to theme, as it uses smarty.
This problem/scenario is pretty common. And the most common solution is to install a CMS. Our compagny installs Drupal to let end user manage their website easily. They can edit menus, and change content as easily as you write a document in word processor software.
But there is a lot of CMS out there...
Have you tried blogEngine.net?
I have two sites http://www.dotnetscraps.com and http://www.abhyast.com/ that are hosted using blogEngine.net. It is free and has multi user support, and the best part for me is that it supports both XML and SQL hosting. Anything that you post automatically ends up in the App_Data folder which is what you need to backup.
http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/
There are a plenty of themes to choose from, and if you wish you can customize your own theme without much effort.
I have developed quite a number of sites using wordpress, many of which are not blogs and wordpress is only being used as a CMS although I am finding more and more that sites powered by wordpress are being blocked as they are categorised as "blogging/social". The sites in question are neither a blog nor social related.
Has anyone come across this before and if so is there any solution?
There are a number of sites using WP outside the blog/media realm. Obsfucate that you're using WP by restricting IPs into wp-admin. In addition, you could rename wp-content to something else.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/226128?replies=8
This however alone isn't certain to change the classification of existing sites.