I’m no noob when it comes to website design or development. And am quite savvy with JQuery, XHTML and PHP. However, I admit I am quite noob-ish when it comes to WP…
I already have the WP directory (folders for includes,admin,content and all the other php files it requires) uploaded to my root. Well, obviously in a subdirectory of the root (ex. root/wordpress).
My question is, if I’m creating multiple (different clients) websites with WP yet stored on the same host, do I need to fully install the entire WP directory again? This time under a different pathname (ex. root/wordpress02)?
I’m pretty damn sure the answer is yes, as each instance of WP has its own Dashboard and makes calls to its own PHP files. Unless I changed the target path of the plugins and other files I plan on sharing amongst my different WP sites, the answer is yes.
I’m pretty sure I just answered my own question — it’s 1 am here. I’ve had a long day…
but I’m still kinda curious how you guys go about installing multiple instances of WP on your root. Just append a number to the different directories? (ex. root/wordpress01 , root/wordpress02 , root/wordpress03)
Thank you!
If you want to share the same wordpress installation for multiple sites/blogs, I’d suggest looking at WordPress Networks. And if you need different domain names (and not just subpath or subdomain) you could go with the plugin called WordPress MU Domain Mapping.
If you have lower level access to your server (and not just a shared hosting) then you could probably create a link to the wordpress installation from all your sites root, but that would just open up for so many problems.