ADMIN EDIT: This post was originally from this thread but I thought it was so good it should be posted as its own tutorial

I recalled seeing a post about managing multiple blogs (on various domain names) from one installation of wordpress and went hunting for it again. Virtual Multiblog MIGHT be part of a solution. It says you only need to install your plugins one time, and when you upgrade you just do it to the primary installation. It says you can use a different theme per blog. But I can't begin to follow the install directions, so maybe a help ticket to NatNet can get it setup for you to at least try it out.

As to getting your hand written posts sorted out to different blogs you own you can do the same thing paysite owners do for their site rss feeds:

1. Use ONE main blog for ALL post construction.

2. In this MAIN blog create a category name for each blog site you run. (ie: for the blog strokinmymeat.com you might make a category called strokin, or strokinmymeat, and so on)

*note - this also works for ONE blog website needing rss feeds to distribute all posts about their paysite for their affiliates based on say just your bareback content, or for just bear or just twink posts, and so on. This saves building a seperate blog for each category just to get an rss feed happening.

3. Create a post, and tick off ONLY the domains (now categories) you want that post to appear on. Do a preview, edit the date and time for it to post, and schedule it.

4. Go to each of your domains and use the Feedwordpress plugin OR use blogs organizer to pull in JUST THE FEED FOR THAT DOMAIN.

To easily generate the category rss links you'll need, you can add this plugin onto the master site: Category Specific RSS Menu

Just click the blog name you need the feed rss url for and copy the url (ctrl-c) and go paste (ctrl-v) it into whichever feed distributor program you are using.

*note - One thing to keep in mind is that the ‘Category Specific RSS’ plugin won’t be able to give you an RSS feed if you are using the default dynamic URL structure (eg. ?cat=7 or ?p=127 etc.)

Change your permalink structure to a fancy permalink the same day you setup the blog and before you start posting. You want some version of (eg. www.yourdomain.com/title-of-your-post instead of www.yourdomain.com/?p=12) You need this in your htaccess file in the blog root. Open Notepad, cursor down one line and paste the following into it. Save it as htaccess.txt and upload it via ftp, and then rename it to .htaccess (that's dot htaccess without the trailing .txt)

I would NOT depend on wordpress to update the htaccess correctly, even if you make it writable. It's best to just create your own file and send it up.

Code:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
You should be using fancy permalinks for Search Engine Optimization anyway. And if you have mod-rewrite enabled on your server, you can dump the links that required you to show site url/index.php/and the rest of the link information for your permalink structure.

How to use Custom Post Types and How to Create Custom Post RSS Feeds will be discussed in another thread

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