Originally Posted by EddyTheDog

http://premium.wpmudev.org/ have plugins that will mass create blogs with plugins etc replicated across the network.

I think they are overpriced - but that's just me...

Originally Posted by Sly

Ok, let's try this again!

Assume I have a list of 200 celebrities. I need to create a blog on my personal WordPress host (*.mydomain.com) for each individual celebrity. The sum of this will be a "Celebrity Network". Every blog will have a blogroll containing a link to every other celebrity. I need this blog roll to somehow be "global" or easily grabable so that whenever I add a new celebrity to the network, I can instantly have a link to that celebrity on every one of my celebrity blogs.

I need two things.

I need to be able to feed a script or plug-in a list of celebrity names and corresponding subdomain identifiers and have this script "create" the blogs. If such a script exists that I can feed it advanced features (themes, widget settings) and have those features carried through with the creation of the blog, even better.

I need to be able to create and use a "global blogroll" allowing me to add a link to one blog roll and have it syndicate throughout the whole network.

I'm not paying a service to do this. If a script does not exist that already does this, I will pay to have it written. If you have experience writing scripts like this, feel free to contact me with a quote.