http://wp-hive.com/forums/ WP Hive » Tag: wpmu - Recent Posts en Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:57:44 +0000 http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-656 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:02:29 +0000 starapple 656@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>Hopefully WP-Hive will survive the availability of MU. There are two distinct markets for the apps and some hosts (Godaddy for one, I understand) only allow the installation of MU on dedicated servers.</p> <p>MU is for those who want to run blog farms of major proportions. A user like me, who wants no more than six to 12 blogs, should be comfortable with WP-Hive. Now if my server (at a host that does not allow MU installs) will just cooperate, I'll be on my way with WP-Hive. </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-456 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:37:28 +0000 ikailo 456@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>In MU, one administrator has control over all the sites whereas in both VMB and WP Hive, all the sites act independently of each other, as though they were separate installs.</p> <p>I don't know a lot about VMB as it's not my product, but as far as I know it works best with Apache / Linux. I believe it also requires more configuration on the server side (eg, replacing wp-config, editing files, etc..) to work.</p> <p>WP Hive is:<br /> - Server / OS agnostic<br /> - Plugin architecture and easy to install (and will be even easier in the future).<br /> - Compatible with the latest releases of Wordpress<br /> - Compatible with almost all third party plugins </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-453 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:50:20 +0000 catlover 453@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p><em> Is it not the case that WP-Hive allows a single admin to manage multiple blogs within a single dashboard/admin interface?</p> <p>WPMU allows multiple blogs each with their own owner/administrator with the only common feature being accessing the same themes directory and optionally the same plugins directory.</p> <p>If that distinction holds, then the need for WP-Hive will only grow. </em><br /> ------------------------</p> <p>Great question!!</p> <p>Is that the main distinction between Hive and MU? If so, then I agree, Hive will Survive. (And I will gladly pay for Premium.)</p> <p>Following from that question, and apologies for pushing this thread off topic a bit . . . since you, ikailo, brought up VMB Virtual Multiblog, in another thread . . . is the main distinction between Hive and VMB that VMB allows each blog to maintain its own wp-config.php file? (I'm unclear what the pros and cons are about that so far...)</p> <p>Secondly, that VMB, like MU, requires separate logins at each blog to make changes, but HIVE has just one interface to log into ALL blogs? </p> <p>Are those 3 VMB/MU/HIVE distinctions correct? </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-452 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:48:26 +0000 catlover 452@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>see below --- cannot figure out the <code>ticks</code> </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-418 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:44:54 +0000 sso_wd 418@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>I'm a complete newbie, so I may have misunderstood something. I've been doing a LOT of reading on the web and my understanding to now has been that there is a major difference between what WP-Hive does and WPMU does,which makes the question about WP-Hive becoming obsolete not make sense. </p> <p>Is it not the case that WP-Hive allows a single admin to manage multiple blogs within a single dashboard/admin interface.</p> <p>WPMU allows multiple blogs each with their own owner/administrator with the only common feature being accessing the same themes directory and optionally the same plugins directory.</p> <p>If that distinction holds, then the need for WP-Hive will only grow.</p> <p>I've just got three sites and managing just these three by having to login-logout-login has driven me to searching for a solution that looks like it is WP-Hive.</p> <p>Am I wrong?</p> <p>The other thing that lead me here is that all of the instructions for creating multiple blogs with WPMU involve creating symlinks this and htaccess that. Some of the instructions seem to directly contradict one another.</p> <p>WP-Hive -- I've been reading your support forum -- has a consistent install and remarkably understandable answers to first-timer questions. Such that I think even I can pull it off!</p> <p>If I succeed I promise I will support the development with a donation. </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-386 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:19:25 +0000 ikailo 386@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>Probably better to install it when you actually need it. There is a good chance a new version will be out in late August.</p> <p>Regardless, I'm a big fan of seamless upgrades / migrations, so count on not having any issues if you install now and want to upgrade when the new version is released. </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-377 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:22:21 +0000 edkilby 377@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>Hi Ikailo,</p> <p>Thanks for your reply. I'm glad that you will continue development and support. Like I said, my gut feeling is that it will be quite a while before WP puts together their solution after the merger.</p> <p>I checked out the Theme Switcher plug-in. The reason that the switcher plug-in won't work is that my alternative themes are for visitors who will not have admin panel access. I just want to link the home pages to each other so they can click and go try out another theme. These visitors will most likely be very unsophisticated users, for the most part.</p> <p>So, I think your approach will solve my problem.</p> <p>I have a couple more questions. Which way would be the best way to go:<br /> * install my single-site WP now, get started developing my site for the main theme and install WP-Hive later after the new release, or<br /> * install WP now and also install WP-Hive now, then upgrade later with the newer version when it comes out?</p> <p>I have no immediate need yet for the switching capability, and won't need it for another month or so. So I am leaning toward not installing WP-Hive until I actually need it.</p> <p>Please let me know what you think.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Ed </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-376 Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:47:46 +0000 ikailo 376@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>The official word is that Yes, I will continue to work on WP Hive until a better product is part of the WordPress core.</p> <p>Now for the better news. </p> <p>WP Hive v1.0 is clearly taking too long to complete, and I likely made a bad decision a while ago trying to fit all the new features into a single release. </p> <p>There are two things that everyone is asking for. The first is for subdirectory support. The second is to fix the auto-add functionality (specifically for short domain names and multiple similar domain names). In the essence of time, I will be releasing an interim version (v0.5) that will address both of these issues. Expect it to come out "soon" (As in a multiple of days, not months). The pre-alpha has been coded and I'm in debugging mode now.</p> <p>WP Hive uses all the WP standards when comes to the database, so I foresee no issues when migrating WP Hive to a later version of WordPress, be it v3.0 etc.. Some clear instructions or a small script will take care of that, but we'll cross that hurdle when it comes.</p> <p>With regards to the sandbox environment, I'm not sure I understand your requirement perfectly, but if you're only looking to only switch themes while maintaining the same data, you may want to look into a plugin specifically for <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nkthemeswitch/">theme switching</a>. </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-375 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:19:21 +0000 edkilby 375@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>Dang that was long! Sorry! </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-374 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:18:59 +0000 edkilby 374@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>Hi Ikailo,</p> <p>I'm a new member to your site - just a few minutes ago. After reading much of the information here, it sounds like WP-Hive might be the best thing for my situation. I'm excited to find what I've been looking for. </p> <p>The question here about its future viability is of concern to me, of course, if I decide to go down this path. </p> <p>Several thoughts...</p> <p>All I've heard about WPMU is how difficult it is to install and maintain. Even if the two organizations merge, might it still be a long time before they have a version that would be useful to "the dirty masses?"</p> <p>Secondly, even if, say in 9 months they come out with a pretty good product that does what WP-hive does, do you think that you would be able to still use the same MySQL database as well as the individual sites with their unique themes, etc.?</p> <p>So, have you made a decision about where you think you're going to go with WP-Hive?</p> <p>Final question, I have a situation that I would like to try with this. I saw something discussed similar to this idea, but I have a different slightly different scenario and different motives. I don't think there was a definitive resolution on the question I saw earlier about this situation.</p> <p>What I'd like to do is create a big "sandbox" to test multiple vendor's themes on one common set of data. I'd like to leave this set-up intact, probably permanently. I want my readers to get to taste the look and feel of the themes that I have on display (like Hybrid, Thesis and WP-ReMix, as well as a dozen or so others.) I probably would point to sub-directories of a main site, or I could set up sub-domains instead.</p> <p>I'm not interested in having multiple domains getting Google love. In fact, I only want my primary site to have that happen. I think there is a way to keep the Google bots from going to the secondary sites.</p> <p>Any thoughts on all this?</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-350 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:39:49 +0000 ikailo 350@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>I have been thinking about this question since the announcement a few weeks ago. Let me tell you, it's not easy to make a call right now, and things are still up in the air.</p> <p>While there is no official timeline for the merge yet, it appears that it is being targeted for the WP 3.0 release. Based on WP's past release schedule, I'm going to take a guess and say that it will be within a year, but probably closer to 6 months. There is a very good chance that this version will effectively make WP Hive obsolete then.</p> <p>The real question right now is whether or not the new version will be worth releasing in the interim. I've invested a lot of time and resources already in this project, and there's a lot to do still to get it finished. I have a chance to spend a considerable amount of time during early July to finish writing it, if there is enough support for me to do it.</p> <p>I'll make a blog post within the next few days about this. If enough people want me to continue writing it, and can commit to supporting it, then yes, I will. If not then it will likely just remain as-is, waiting for the release of WP 3.0. </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/will-wpmu-merger-with-wordpress-kill-wp-hive#post-346 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:20:38 +0000 aaronhall 346@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>Recently Wordpress announced that Wordpress MU (WPMU) is going to merge with Wordpress. See <a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2009/06/04/wordpress-mu-merge-gpl-and-support/" rel="nofollow">http://ocaoimh.ie/2009/06/04/wordpress-mu-merge-gpl-and-support/</a>. Will this be the end of WP-Hive?</p> <p>On a positive note, the need for WP-Hive is validated if Wordpress is integrating the same idea in the core Wordpress installation. </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/wp-27/page/3#post-90 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:40:09 +0000 Eric 90@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>I'll have no problem migrating from WPMU to Hive. I actually migrated several different WP installs to WPMU in the first place ... things will just move in reverse. :-)</p> <p>I understand I'll lose some functionality, but I'll be gaining a lot, too. For example, even as the administrator I don't have access to the theme editor in WPMU. This makes it a pain to tweak things for my clients or re-add the "published by" footer when it disappears. I'd much rather have WP core functionality without the need to code through an external system. I think Hive will give me that.</p> <p>Also, I need the ability to host blogs through subdomains, but I use a "shared" hosting system that doesn't give me the ability to add the wildcard DNS entries that WPMU needs. What I've been doing thus far is hosting sub-folder blogs and redirecting the appropriate subdomains with frame redirects. This is also a manual fix and, I think, much more involved than merely setting things up just once.</p> <p>So here I go, time to install hive. Thanks for the help! </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/wp-27/page/3#post-89 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:50:15 +0000 ikailo 89@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>RJ - awesome gift idea. :)</p> <p>You're bang on about the functionality difference with WPMU - one other thing to note is that WP Hive supports blogs on subdomians and domains only, but not subdirectories (yet).</p> <p>I've seen a few articles on <a href="http://welcome.totheinter.net/2008/10/04/how-to-migrate-from-wordpress-to-wordpress-mu/">how to move from WP sites to WPMU</a>, but never on how to move from WPMU to multiple WP sites (or to WP Hive for that matter). I haven't tried it myself so if anyone has any inclination to try it, please share!!</p> <p>FYI - we are working on a new version - albeit slowly, that will have a lot more functionality and will close the gap between WP Hive and WPMU.</p> <p>Cheers. </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/wp-27/page/3#post-87 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:05:02 +0000 RhondaNicole 87@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>Hi Eric,</p> <p>I've never used WPMU but I am running WP 2.7. I just installed the hive and have set up several blogs using the instructions provided on the documentation page and everything seems to be working like a charm.</p> <p>I considered using WPMU but it seems so complicated to set up that I think I will stick to using WP Hive for now.</p> <p>I'm not sure how switching from WPMU to WP2.7 with WP Hive will go. From what I've read you will lose some functionality. For example, users can not set up their own blogs at this time. You have to manually create the sub domains and point them to the root directory and set up everything for each blog manually and it requires logging into each blog as admin.</p> <p>At this time users have no control over widgets or themes unless you grant your users admin status.</p> <p>Other than that, it's fantastic. I love it that I can have a multi user site for my friends and family all running on WP 2.7. At this point it's ok with me that I have to set it up manually. I'm doing this as a Christmas present to my family as we all agreed to make gifts for each other without spending any money this year. I already had my own domain with my own blog on it so adding the 20 blogs that I need before Christmas is not a problem.</p> <p>I am hoping that this will progress, however as I can see how my family might want to add their friends and so on... this could be the next Facebook but not if I have to do it all manually.</p> <p>I have some web experience from years ago back before css and themes and such so I have a basic understanding of the workings of WP but I'm still learning because so much has changed in the last 10 years. I'm new to css and php but I can't stop myself from wanting to learn. I have become a Wordpress junkie so if I can do anything to further along this plug-in, I will. It may take me a while to learn enough to be of any assistance here but I am so excited I can’t sleep.</p> <p>I love what's being done here.</p> <p>RJ </p> http://wp-hive.com/forums/topic/wp-27/page/3#post-85 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:44:32 +0000 Eric 85@http://wp-hive.com/forums/ <p>Has anyone tested compatibility with the new WP version 2.7 yet? I'd like to migrate my WP MU sites into a Hive setup, but I want to make sure everything will work before I go through the pain of switching things over. </p>