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April 16th, 2007

Multiple Blogs Same Content

Ok I’m going a lil crazy on the blogging today. But have had a few people ask me over time how to have multiple wordpress blogs with different domains and themes but with the same content and only have to post it once.

You can see i have it here on this blog and again at http://www.heatherbalagh.com/blog/

So after the request again today I decided to post the knowledge…It’s very easy, have any questions post them here and make sure to subscribe to comments to get notified of my response.. Also make sure to have both the sites on the same server

Upload WP into both directories. Make sure they have the identical wp-config.php file.

In the second sites directory do the following:
In the wp-settings.php file edit the options database value from this:

$wpdb->options = $wpdb->prefix . ‘options’;

to something like

$wpdb->options = ‘YOURNEWPREFIX_options’;

Instead of ‘YOURNEWPREFIX’ put something like ’site2′ or whatever you want with out the ‘.

Then, in PHPmyAdmin duplicate the wp_options table, and rename one of the them to be YOURNEWPREFIX_options, so if you chose ’site2′, it would be ’site2_options’.

Edit the information in the ’site2_options’ table to reflect the correct information for your second site and you will be on your way.

8 Responses to “Multiple Blogs Same Content”

  1. Robin Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 5:43 am

    Well…a little late for that isn’t it? :duh:

  2. Heather Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 8:18 am

    Did you ever need this?

  3. Robin Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 11:01 am

    I once did change, but I think you did it for me :duh:

  4. Heather Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 11:05 am

    Hun that was alot different then this….What I did was change your url on your blog…

    This is having multiple blogs that have their own seperate URL and theme but same content so that everytime I post something here you can see it over at my other blog

  5. Robin Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 3:54 pm

    Why bother?

  6. Heather Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

    Believe it or not that is alot of request for this on wordpress.org

  7. Indie Says:
    April 20th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

    Heya Heather, been awhile :smile:

    One thing about this technique, google hates it! They search for and blacklist duplicate content now (have for awhile). If they notice multiple blogs with identical content it will pwn your rankings.

    Anyway, looks like it does the job, just sayin it’s not a good idea to implement, imo

    I’ll msg you soon, switching back to linux atm :rock:

  8. hawken king Says:
    January 19th, 2008 at 2:53 am

    thanks for this, will try it out. As you mention, a lot of people are asking for it but there seems to be little in the way of answers.

    The way I find it useful is populating two blogs about different things, but then cross referencing them with the same content listing to get more traffic between the two sites. Of course only logging into one wp and keeping the data in one place is another benefit.

    cheers!

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