Multiple Wordpress Blogs Under One Wordpress Folder
By Allen Michael Gurrea

What is this?

This is a guide on how to have multiple wordpress blogs in just one wordpress folder.

Can I just upload another wordpress folder in my account and use that instead to make a new blog?

I thought about this and I can say that this is the super easiest way. However, it has some drawbacks.

1. Space - Every time you upload a new wordpress folder, you take up space. The default wordpress (without added themes and plug-ins) is about 4mb big and you have to multiply this to the number of blogs you want to have. For those who have no limits in their web-hosting, this should not be a problem but for those who only have 200mb for their hosting (ehem) it’s a problem.
2. Upgrade Hassles - Wordpress is still under development and new versions are released from time to time. Wordpress users needs to upgrade to the latest versions so that they can benefit from the new features and be more secure against exploits. If you only have one wordpress blog, upgrading is easy. But what if you have lots of wordpress blogs? You have to upgrade each of them and that will be a tedious task. It is something someone as lazy as me won’t bother to do.
3. Adding new themes and plug-ins - These are just for customizing your blog. Generally one them per blog is sufficient but the problem lies in the plug-ins. If you want to add new plug-ins to your blogs, you have to add them manually to each of them. Again, this is a tedious task that won’t be done by someone like me.

Why do you want to do this?

I wanted to do this because I plan to have several blogs for different topics. For example, you want to have a separate blog for your personal life, you dog’s life, your cat’s life and your cow’s life. There are many ways to do this but I wanted to look for the easiest and fastest way to have multiple blogs.

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This marks as my first post here “online”. (all my previous post were “offline”, local wordpress)
I’m happy that I was able to install and configure wordpress in a similar way as I configured it locally. I will continue updating this tomorrow. Hopefully nothing goes wrong.

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I just bought my own domain and hosting today and looking forward to upload this blog for public view! Hopefully I can start using “www.silkenhut.com” tomorrow.

Currently, I’m running wordpress locally. If you want to know how to run wordpress locally, visit this link. Install WordPress Locally on Windows XP with XAMPP (easy)

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I am browsing the web for some plug-ins to add in wordpress. Plug-ins are one of the good features of wordpress, it allows users to add more customizations to their blog without much problems or tweaking in the code / template.

Adding plug-in is in wordpress is as easy as 1,2,3.

1. Download the plug-in
2. Unzip/Unrar the plug-in into the plugins folder (wp-content/plugins/)
3. Activate the plug-in your wordpress settings

So here is my list of plug-ins I added and site resources. I am still looking for more plug-ins. If you could suggest some cool and useful plug-ins, please do so. Thank you!

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