Monday, March 3rd, 2008
It is possible by running multiple Wordpress installations in different folders. In my case, I wanted to keep an install at the root of the domain, but also wanted to add a fresh installation in a new folder, for other purposes.
This can be done whenever you have only one database or several ~ the technique is a bit different for each case. You will find in the Wordpress codex enough informations on how to perform these installations : Installing Multiple Blogs.
However, and despite following those instructions, I quickly ran into problems. My installation was working just fine with the default permalink structure, but as soon as I tried to customize it, every page and article was linking on my blog located at the root (pointing on a brilliant 404 error)!
Here’s a solution!
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Tags: .htaccess, blogs, installations, installs, multiple, permalinks, wordpress
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
As you probably noticed, I’ve included in the footer of my Wordpress blog several listings of items coming from “social” services (Del.icio.us, Twitter and Flickr). In this article I’ll tell you how to simply achieve a smiliar platform by presenting you some neat and easy-to-use plug-ins for Wordpress.
(If you don’t know what these services are about, you will find some ressources to look further at the bottom of this article.)
I mostly use these plug-ins in order to add valuable content to my website, but also, so that my blog acts as a kind of platform that will display my various affiliations and contributions on other web spaces.
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Tags: del.icio.us, flickr, plug-in, twitter, wordpress
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