Comments on: Multiple blogs

Question: Multiple blogs

phaedon — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:42:21 -0800

I'm looking for a CMS/blog that allows for multiple "installations" to be maintained through one control panel and also allows me to add custom fields.

I want to adapt a CMS/blog to keep track of separate project logs that can be maintained by one user in an office environment. I don't want to do separate installs because that means the person has to keep logging in to different control panels. I should also mention that I can't use Movable Type because I am using MAMP to run these logs locally on Mac OS X and I haven't figured out how to install MT (because of Perl). Hence something with a PHP backend.

By: DJWeezy

DJWeezy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:53:36 -0800

im not exactly sure of what you need but i bet wordpress-mu can do it.

By: misterbrandt

misterbrandt — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:17:51 -0800

Expression Engine does multiple sites.

By: littlerobothead

littlerobothead — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:22:46 -0800

Drupal does multiple sites. My love/hate for Drupal is well known. YMMV.

By: cbrody

cbrody — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:24:25 -0800

Drupal can do this.

By: kristi

kristi — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:26:16 -0800

Drupal lets you run multiple sites from one Drupal install. I'm pretty sure you can also set up multiple installs that share logins. Drupal has project-related modules (plug-ins) like Tasklist and Project. You can use the Content Construction Kit (CCK) to add custom fields.

Drupal uses PHP.

By: unixrat

unixrat — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:04:28 -0800

Drooooooooooooooopal.

And Webforms.

By: maniactown

maniactown — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:06:35 -0800

From your description, it sounds like you could simply utilize the built-in categories system in WordPress to do this. Your different project logs would be organized like http://domain.com/project1/ and http://domain.com/project2/ (you'll have to use a plugin like this to simply the URL this way, though).

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:27:27 -0800

Second ExpressionEngine.

By: anildash

anildash — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:03:21 -0800

I work with the Movable Type team, and we've all got MT running on our Macs, so we can definitely help with getting the Perl prerequisites installed if you need. If you're still stuck, feel free to drop me an email or IM me at "anildash" and I can hook you up with folks who can troubleshoot this for you. Or hang out in our forums or IRC channel or mailing lists -- most people in all these communities are running MT in exactly the environment you describe.