I’ve been quite busy, but sadly not as I would like hacking WP. Anyway,

Here’s my second iteration of the multisite idea. I haven’t done yet the admin page and the way it stands now is another proof of concept: Style switching for all the blogs!

To make a long story short, my hack allows you to install a WordPress blog that responds to http://blog.example.com/ and from the same code directory/folder respond with a totally different content to http://rant.example.com/ . Here’s the first iteration of this hack. with a brief explanation as to how does it work.

Now, that only gave us cookie-cutter blogs, all looking the same as little toys coming out of a factory, so this iteration allows you to specify different styles for each site. Come and get it here: multisite-1.2-mingus-0.2b.zip

All the configuraton is done inside the config file in the sites/ directory, I think it’s pretty self-explanatory, please let me know what you think

I’ts just a zip file with the files I modified. It works but needs the corresponding UI to make it as user friendly and cool as the rest of WP.

The general idea is to make a directory named sites under the current wp install and then making both a multi-conf.ini file and the corresponding directories under it. This approach uses the host part of the HTTP request to figure out which sites/dir to use and parse the wp-config.php inside it. After it has parsed it, it silently include()s the main wp-config.php which will define the variables (host, db etc) only if they have not been defined already.

get it here: multisite-1.2-mingus-0.1b.zip