All right, I'm proud of myself. I haven't had to ask for help on here for about 5 months now. *laughs* Sadly, it's time to break that trend.

I run an area specific blog, and I'm getting ready to move to a different area, and I'd love to move the concept to the NEW area without getting rid of the first, which still has good information, IMHO, for the area. I would also like to make a THIRD one that encompasses the first two, and gives information for all across the country.

My question is: Can I do this with my Lunarpages Basic Hosting account?  And if so, how would I go about doing it? For the life of me, I have had issues finding out where in either the WP control panel or the LP control panel I would go about installing 3 instances of Wordpress.

Can I do this? Am I being impossible, or just making it too difficult?

Tune in next post...

Tony

Am I the only one who finds it funny that a guy writing a blog about Geeking, who also started the Rebel Legion, just got his question answered by a Jedi?   

It had been a while since I did the initial install. So, when I install another instance of Wordpress, it WILL ask if I want to put it in another folder, and it won't overwrite the instance I currently have installed, unless I'm foolish enough to put it in the same folder?

And since it's a new instance, I will have to download all plugins and themes again, if I do want to keep a uniform appearance across the board, correct?

And why am I up at 3 AM checking this, and asking more questions?

T

WordPress 3.0 is coming out "soon" (as of 6/3/2010 the 3.0 release candidate is out).
WP3 has the "Multiple Blog" features of WordPress MU, built in
[Note: Open up wp-config.php and add this line      define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);    to enable multiple blogs in a single installation]

There is a plugin for WordPressMU (should work for WordPress3 also),
Multipost MU Plugin: Multipost MU is a Wordpress MU plugin that allows you publish a post or page made to a single blog across multiple blogs. An option panel is added to the sidebar of the Add/Edit post and Add/Edit page screens that allow you to select other blogs to which the current post/page is published. If the "master post/page" is edited or deleted, all multiposted copies will also be edited or deleted.

Visit plugin site

Wordpress can be installed with Fantastico. I can't imagine why you can't have multiple wordpress blog unless it's restricted amount of space or bandwidth. Wordpress blogs are heavy on processors if you add too much plugins though.