Creating mass blogs with WordPress
 

I have WordPress set up as a blog host on my server. I need to create 200 blogs. What's the easiest way to do this without manually creating each one? Is there a script for mass creation?

Also, what's the easiest way to share a common list of links (or widget) within the same network of blogs? For example, a blogroll.

there u go http://managewp.com/

i concur, and better start soon, i think their pricing is going up.

1 - To execute php in your stuff you need the plugin "Exec-PHP"

2 - Put your links inside a php file and host it somewhere ...

3 - Then put this code inside a text widget of each blog

<?php
$homepage = file_get_contents('http://yourdomain.com/blogroll.php');
echo $homepage;
?>


Hope this helped you :2 cents:

I can't believe the amount of help that people give on WordPress threads.

Why nobody gives this kind of help when someone asks about other topics?

Just wondering.

not really a good idea.

I don't really understand how that service above works. I read through the site and didn't quite get it. They can perform all of those functions on my install?

Do you have a more secure solution?

Wordpress Multisite.

If you have softaculous on your server then there is an option to install MU with wordpress somewhere in the install steps.

Simple, easy and free.

You can set up 200 blogs on it with just a few clicks, from the network admin you can assign widgets that will be shown across all blogs.

D.

I have that.

How do I set up 200 blogs with a couple clicks? And how do I share the same widget with the same settings throughout those 200 blogs?

Link Farm Evolution used to work very good for that. Just use your own hosts as the target hosts.

I'll do it for $2/blog set up to auto post daily for a year or two each depending on your promo content all done in about 2 days.. :thumbsup

SEO work optional :winkwink:

Put code like this in functions.php for each template that you're using:

class My_Widget extends WP_Widget {
function My_Widget() {
parent::WP_Widget(false, 'Test Widget');
}
function form($instance) {
// outputs the options form on admin
}
function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
// processes widget options
return $new_instance;
}
function widget($args, $instance) {
// outputs widget content
}
}
register_widget(My_Widget');

Don't do it! You will have no authority. Create extra blogs off the mulitisite but manually create the posts. You will get much more traffic. You have no idea what google is doing now. I don't either, but it isn't good for duplicate content and importing and such.

Would you recommend counterfeiting blogs in denominations of 20?

200 is alot! All at once. I can't even keep up with 40 that are all started one at a time. If it works for you then that is awesome! :) Let me know if it does and I'll start sending traffic your way for some help on mine! :)

I'll make you 200 for a backlink to a site or two of mine in the sidebar ;)

I'll hit you up on icw colmike. :) But shit...you caught me going off on a tangent after I said I was going to focus! Uh oh! :warning

Do you just turn them into subdomains?

Then keep focusing and the one's I make will be auto updating daily for a while each that you don't have to do anything with and work well for SEO and sales as well without crap like RSS feeds ;)

I'm going to sleep soon, though, so we'll talk about it tomorrow :winkwink:

Using WordPress Multisite with some good plugins is way better than paying a monthly fee for managewp.com..

And they don't even state the price for their self hosted script, so it must be quite high.

I'm hosting like 2000 blogs of 200 webmasters in one of the installations I manage with a partner and friend (venusblogger) for 3 years now and never had a problem.

Just saying.

:thumbsup

pimpware, your code is unsafe and not a good idea, loading across the internet will lag those pages like mad. (i agree with fris on this one)

colmike -- nice cut and paste code but its useless, all that is going to do is create a widget with the same name in every template.

Sly. if you dont already have hosting for this project, just signup at dreamhost.com they have onclick installs of wordpress. if budget isnt so much an issue, go with site5.com dreamhost overloads their servers IMHO.

ManageWP, allows you to install WP via one click to any server you have ftp access to, it also allows you to pretty much do all management/update tasks on of all your blogs from one common place on the internet, regardless of where the blog is hosted.

there are a few unpaid web based services that will do this, BUT do you really want to put your ftp password into some strange website and allow them to upload executable code to your serveR?

My bad, that's what I thought you wanted.. :Oh crap
(You have to fill in the code that you want for the widget..)

Like other people said, WP Multisite is the answer. However, it won't be that easy, you'll need to craft a nicely coded theme/s since no "out of the box" theme will do what you need in an automatic way, to the very least you'll need to work out your widgets. Plus, you'll need to define a hub of some sort to distribute your widget's content across the whole network.

But yes, once you do that, it's a snap. You could even create 1000000 blogs from a CSV list or by editing your DB if you want to

Alternatively, you can also use LinkFarmEvolution, it's pretty fast and works well with WP multisite

I'm using WP Multisite on a network I have been building and it works great, I like being able to change theme coding and have it changed across the network on all blogs, makes adding redirection and other scripts a piece of cake.

I recommend not using Wordpress at all unless you're going to manually install and update the blogs. The BEST versions of Wordpress for this type of activity were released about five years ago. Was it 2.1? Around there somewhere?

Now WP is just another piece of bloatware that's become so unneccesarily complicated that you have to PAY someone to make a half decent site. Wordpress is no longer a simple automated solution.

WP a piece of shit now. Why ANYONE would use Wordpress to crank out free sites is beyond me... RSS works without WP.

I know of two ways, and no one in this thread is even close. The question i have is do you want unique content on each or 200 blogs of the same exact thing, with same theme etc?

Don't signup with Dreamhost lol...wtf

so what to use?

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...

<?php
include("/web/sites/youraccount/yourdomain.com/yourwidget.php");
?>

What about using this? I guess it will do it faster and safer(right?)

I think only about two of you understand what I want. I must not have typed it up very well.

Thanks anyway. Might just have a script built to do it for me.

i would create a blogroll on one site that has all your links, then just do a simple query to grab those links.

i need to know the whole situation before giving you advice.

Haha exactly what i thought.

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.

woudlnt be cheap, i could do it for a minimum of $500

Could you really write a script like that? Would it only be for a celebrity thing or could it work for say celebrities, porn stars and anything else? Anything else that can have categories and taxonomy I mean. Just curious

You can use a scrubber that will scrub database sites I think, but would be cool to have something designated for wordpress blogs

i have done this b4.,

what u want is
wpmu and plugin called "wpmu batch-create"

but make sure you do install another plugin called "wpmu-new-blog-defaults" b4.,

and run the wpmu batch-create plugin whenever you are finally ready.

thank me later.

if you want some things done automated then hit me up., ill tell you easy way for free.,

good luck

i started one project with 500+ autoblogs, within 3 days, all set up and running.
then my host shutdown it because of crappy autoblogging plugin using more resources., and huge mysql db size.,

good luck

could be for anything really, i already wrote a script to grab pornstar,celebrity,sologirl names.

What about content, and maybe having the content rearranged like one of those article spinner things?

So where were you pulling your content from? It's easy enough to create the blogs, but the content (original content per say) would be my issue with these things. Feeds will have to be spun somehow, correct?

So you were using up that many resources? Shared hosting. I have 2 with about 100 blogs each and it can slow things down if you get a huge traffic rush one day

It should be fairly easy to mass create the blogs using wordpress multisite.
http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Func...ate_empty_blog

wpmu function reference:
http://codex.wordpress.org/WPMU_Functions

Add a global plugin to query the links from a specific site's blogroll, or look into publishing a blogroll rss feed and just use the built-in to import the feed from each site.

lol man just hire a fucking paki to do the work and get it over with.

it was scraping content from various locations.,

few article directories
youtube
twitter
yahhoo news
yahoo answers.,
and used to spin using the best spinner.,

You gave me some ideas haha.

I don't knwo anything about a script handling this but it would only take a day or two to accomplish manually. As for the shared blogroll, you could just do a php include of a php file with your links laid out in it. Or. get an rss plugin that displays links as rss on the primary blog and use an RSS reader widget on the rest of the blogs.

i would do one main blogroll, then share it via other sites.

if its a mu install, then its easy to do.

So not really porn I take it. Can RSS feeds be spun as you're pulling them?