[wp-edu] Wordpress vs Wordpress MU for a school website?

[Velda]

Thank you all three!   :-)  I also hadn't thought about the 
viewing-access security thing but that would be very handy in this 
situation too, and should the teachers ever decide they want individual 
blogs it'll be nice to have that as an option for them.  MU is installed 
now, and if life treats me well, hopefully we'll have it set up just-so 
by January so I can show it off then.

James, can you clarify this though just in case I'm taking this in the 
wrong direction?

 > However, if you are going to try and make several department sites on 
one blog that is different.

I would like to pull at least category information from the different 
blogs into a menu, and possibly grab info from different blogs for the 
front page. Would that cause a problem?

-Velda

P.S. - does anyone care whether we top or bottom post?  I'm flexible..


Gowtham wrote:
> Velda,
>
> I second Jim's suggestion. I had implemented WPMU for Humanities
> department intructors in Michigan Tech a while ago. Though the
> hope was that there would hundreds of users, reality was that
> we only got about 15 users to register and use it for teaching
> purposes. 
>
> I have now set it up for a friend who writes three blogs - trust
> Jim (and me), it's lot easier to update (WP and plugins and themes)
> in WPMU than in 10 different installations of WP.
>
> Best,
> gowtham
>
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, James Groom wrote:
>
> | Velda,
> | 
> | Even if it is ten different sites, it would be a lot of work to update
> | and keep th plugins consistent for ten separate wordpress install.  I
> | would recommend simply for ease of updating and installing several
> | sites within one install.  However, if you are going to try and make
> | several department sites on one blog that is different.
> | 
> | Best,
> | Jim
> | 
> | On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Velda <velda at novapages.com> wrote:
> | > Hi all, or whoever might be signed up so far at least....  Is anyone else in
> | > here using WordPress for an elementary school website?
> | > I need to get my kids' school site off Joomla, and I'm debating whether I
> | > need to go with WordPress MU so different departments can manage their own
> | > stuff.  I'd definitely envisioned using multiple blogs with sub categories
> | > to achieve different content management functions.  The 'hundreds of
> | > thousands' of blogs bit sounds like MU would be overkill... as we need no
> | > more than 10 here.  But I'm curious as to how that works.
> | >
> | > If anyone's got this going for their school, would you mind sharing your url
> | > and your experience?
> | >
> | > I'm still somewhat new to WordPress, so pardon my ignorance... I'm hoping
> | > I'll catch up quickly :o)  Thank you, and thanks to automattic for making
> | > this list, too.
> | >
> | > Velda
> | >
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