Please go easy on me. I’m a clutzy dinosaur. I currently have a large, unwieldy website hand-coded in html/css with php includes. It currently has a single WP installation in a subdirectory. The plan is to reorganize, and I want to use WP as the CMS and incorporate 3 WP blogs for 3 subdomains. Ideally, would like to create a WP multisite network to allow for further expansion and to save admin trouble.
I just want to confirm that if I install WP in the root directory and create 3 blogs (in subdomains), does this mean my website’s home page is the mother blog’s index.php? Essentially, I will have created 4 blogs – mother at root and 3 children in subdomains?
How to set this up on my Mac (OSX 10.5.8) running MAMP for development? And then how to migrate to server without breaking?
WordPress Multisite is the way to go
WordPress Multisite is highly extensible and will even allow you to map full domain names to the subdomain blogs. I just recently moved 15 client sites to 1 WordPress Multisite install and it went great.
There are some great Multisite resources over at wordpress.stackexchange.com
Questions tagged with Multisite over at wordpress.stackexchange.com