[wp-hackers] WP vs WPMU?

[Mike Schinkel]

Doug Stewart wrote:
>> You're going to have authoritative control of your DNS for the project,
correct? That's usually one of the biggest bears in getting MU to work
correctly (in a subdomain situation, at least) in my experience. 

As far as I would think that's only a problem when you use the form
http://user.site.com vs. http://www.site.com/user, right?  We'd be using the
latter.

>> I would press ahead with MU unless there is a single plugin that you MUST
have that is known not to work with MU (see
http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Plugin_Compatibility for some hints).

Thanks for the input and the link!  Your comments are what I needed to feel
like it's a reasonable idea to use WPMU.

-Mike Schinkel 
http://mikeschinkel.com


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[mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Doug Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:20 AM
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Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] WP vs WPMU?

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Doug Stewart wrote:
>>> A better question might be: why are you leaning towards MU for the
> solution?  What does it buy you that vanilla WP doesn't, and how does 
> that align with the project goals?
>
> Good question and thanks for your reply.
>
> We are launching a video-focused news and information site for a 
> specific market segment that where we'll have two main constituencies 
> that are synergistic. We plan to have syndicated columnists who we'd 
> like to give their own blogs and later we'd like the option to build a 
> community for the two constituencies using BuddyPress which requires 
> WPMU. Finally we plan to create profiles for the companies of one of 
> our constituencies and are exploring the use of the user profile to
represent a company.
>
> I assume this makes our project goals align better with WPMU than with 
> WP but maybe there are better ways?  Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> -Mike Schinkel
> http://mikeschinkel.com
>

You're going to have authoritative control of your DNS for the project,
correct? That's usually one of the biggest bears in getting MU to work
correctly (in a subdomain situation, at least) in my experience.

I would press ahead with MU unless there is a single plugin that you MUST
have that is known not to work with MU (see
http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Plugin_Compatibility for some hints).
It's kept relatively in-sync with WP.org and, while initial configuration
can be a bit more burdensome, for multi-user environments with the
complexity you're describing, you're going to have a lot of issues if you
decide to go the WP.org route anyways (either hacking Authors archives so as
to resemble separate blogs or maintaining multiple instances of WP, etc.)

Just my $.02.

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-Doug
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