[wp-hackers] Managing Many WP blogs

[Tara Star]

Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> Chris Lott wrote:
> 
>> That's what I am doing on my own site. BUT with potentially 300-400
>> blogs I think I want to script the installs. Even at five minutes per
>> blog that is still a significant amount of time, so II'll probably
>> write something that launches with a username from a secure form and
>> creates the account, passwords it, creates the db, does the install,
>> mails the user their login info and voila. I haven't found any
>> automated installation scripts yet, so I'm just hacking the one that
>> comes with WP.
> 
> 
> I saw someone do this with WP once. I don't want to link to the form 
> because it's unprotected, but you just enter a username and it creates a 
> new WP blog. I've gotten it touch with him to see about the code.
> 

this would be really great to have available! I was also toying with the 
idea of getting my pupils on WP next year (roughly 40 blogs), but I have 
to say the thought of installing it all was making me shrink back a little.

Steph
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