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URHO behind the scenes question

ThickeningAgentThickeningAgent
edited May 2012
hello fine creators of URHO. I was hoping to ask you a technical question about the sites structure.

I understand that URHO is powered by wordpress. but how is it that there is so much diversity from the front page to the individual blogs- some of which look like simple teaks of the 2011 theme, but others (like the photo blogs) are something totally different. is URHO one giant/complex wordpress theme, or several themes Frankensteined together?

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  • 12341234
    edited May 2012
    Each blog can be customized individually, but they are all running on the same install of WordPress.

    There used to be a separate product called WordPress Multi-User or MU or something, but in the last major release they combined that into the normal install. I think.

    The front page isn't actually WordPress. (Right guys?)
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    Big Mac, you are learning computers! Go you!
  • MatthewMatthew
    Front page is totally WordPress. Also custom PHP stuff.
  • 12341234
    Management doesn't know shit about how it works. Ask someone who works for a living.
  • ThickeningAgentThickeningAgent
    so is all of URHO one giant and very customized wordpress 'theme', or is each blog it's own little wordpress theme that orbits around the mother ship?

    i am looking to expand my (word press based) website, with hopes of creating more complex pages/sections for individual projects that would have their own unique look and menu structure, and am struggling to figure out if each new project section should be it's own deal entirely or if there is a way to hold it all under one roof. the way that the URHO front page links off to a number of very different blogs is similar to what i hope to eventually accomplish.

    and yes, I AM LEARNING COMPUTERS BETTER! after deeply struggling with 'big picture' stuff, i succumbed and decided to just try to learn wordpress better- along with some dabbling in html and javascript. BABY STEPS!

  • 12341234
    As a not-very-technical person I would advise you *away* from multiple blogs on the same install. I find it to be harder to deal with than a single blog. I email Matthew and Curt and Alex once a week for help with some weird thing... But maybe I'm just being superstitious.
  • MatthewMatthew
    Each blog could be seen as a separate install of WordPress, but in this case they are all one installation playing off of the same files. Each blog has its own theme. For the blog roll we do a semi-hacky plugin thing that imports all posts into one (secret) blog but retains their original URLs.

    Unless you are wanting to have very separate "blog" like things, I would suggest not going the MU/Multi-User route. One can do a lot with vanilla WordPress. (But if you do want that, this is that plugin.)
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