Hope this helps.

thanks for creating VMB. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get it to work with WP 2.8.2. I have tried ceaselessly by following each line in the readme file, but it still won’t work.

Foremost, after activating the plugin in the plugins admin page, and clicking on the Multiblog Kit link in the tools sub-menu, I got this error message:
Virtual Mutliblog Not Found

To use Virtual Mutliblog, it needs to be uploaded into the wp-content directory.

Download Virtual Mutliblog at striderweb.com, or read a review about its features.

This prompted me to make a copy of hackadelic-multiblog-kit in the plugins directory and copied it to wp-content folder. I even CHMODed both wp-content and hackadelic-multiblog-kit to 777 including all the files and folders, but all to avail.

Is there a way you the author or anyone else can fix this up or give me detail instructions on how to manually configure VMB and make it work.

Thanks…

I knew that you can define where these dirs are, but I’ve found there are several reasons not to do that.

- If you are after a single code base to maintain, it makes more sense to to have a single pool of plugins.
- AFAIK there is no WP_THEME_DIR constant, so you must merge themes anyway.
- The directory relocation feature is rarely used, so I suspect some plugins and/or themes may have trouble with it.
(For ex. I’ve frequently seen this in WP plugin code: ... = ABSPATH . '/wp-content/...'. Such code would break.)

All in all, I wouldn’t really recommend to use this feature unless you absolutely must.

Actually, WordPress allows you to set your wp-content directory, (or, separately, the plugin directory), via a CONSTANT in the config file. This works just fine in VMB, so you *can* have separate plugin or wp-content folders.

You can define:
WP_CONTENT_URL
WP_CONTENT_DIR

WP_PLUGIN_URL
WP_PLUGIN_DIR

Heh. I *really* need to update the VMB docs!

You don’t even have to start with VMB installed in the first place. You can add it at the moment you need your second blog.

I already did all that on my test server and it worked flawlessly.

Also, you could keep your second blog’s database and let it be powered by your first WP installation. You’ll have to merge the themes and plugins directories of the two blogs though.

I have a site that runs on two Wordpress installs.
The ability to use one install base would be great!

My question is:
(This is probably better directed to Stephen than Zoran, but…)

Would it be easy to take an existing Wordpress install (or two) and use VMB to power it?

This is fairly uncommon among plugins, but (for example) I don’t think there are any caching plugins that work with VMB right now. The fix is probably just a clever hack to the mod_rewrites, but I haven’t figured it out yet.