[wp-hackers] multisite wordpress

[Boris Anthony]

On 22-Feb-07, at 12:36 AM, Dr. Mike Wendell wrote:

> On 2/21/07, Brian Layman <Brian at thecodecave.com> wrote:
>> >> I just wrote a patch for wordpress that allows you to have a  
>> multisite
>> >> http://scotthadfield.ca/?p=175) if you're interested.
>> >http://mu.wordpress.org
>>
>> Plus WordPress.com does this natively through WordPress 2.1 proper  
>> doesn't
>> it?  How is that done? (If it is not improper to ask.)
>
> wp.com is a wordpress multiuser site.  The software is found at the
> *.org site listed above.
>
> Please don't get me wrong.  I would love to see this functionality
> within regular wp as "subblogs".  Completely seperate blogs would be
> the WPMu software.

Yup, agreed there.

Reading the description, it does essentially seem like exactly the  
same, in principle, as WPMU, except without the benefit of the  
handful of "site wide" common DB tables (which allow for a lot of  
site wide management and hackery :D

I would very much like to hear the reasoning of the developer why his  
version is better. :)

B.