Ah! the man himself.
Firstly, respect to you for all that you do around here. Don't know what people would do without you.
And with that, on to Xpress.
Please note that I have no experience with Wordpress and have only been looking at it since you released Xpress 2.04MU a few days ago. There's a lot to learn, but I'm getting on with it. I have found the
dev.xoops.org site, the
codex, the
WP site, the
WPMU site, the
WPMUDEV site, the
x-forge site (which for some reason looks like Blogger.com), and the documentation provided with the mod. I've been reading it diligently.
As I said above, I have a heap of questions and if it's ok to list them all here in the one post, I will.
here goes...
Q1. I'm trying to provide my site's members with their own blogs. One per member. I'd like to have a 'master' blog which takes RSS feeds from all the member blogs and acts like a "What our members are up to" type of thing. I want to give them a bit of flexibility as regards presentation, they will be able to choose from a number of pre-designed themes. I want all the member blogs to be limited to one author each (the member) but I will have "master" control over them all so that I can delete stuff if necessary.
My members are not programmers, and have little to no experience of web publishing. They will basically choose a theme once, and from then on only be adding posts and occasionally adding a link.
Have I chosen the right module to attempt this with?
Q2. I installed the module and all seemed to go well. I'm getting the hang of where various files and parameters are, and am not having any trouble with themes, UI, or the mechanics of running a blog. What I can't do is actually generate any blogs except the initial one (owned by me). How do users create their own blogs rather than become contributors (or what have you) to my main blog? I wonder if I needed to do something, at the time of install, more than explained in the readme.html file that came with the mod. I've read about WP needing sub-domains, but this is WPMU. Do I need to find more info on generating sub-domains for this version too?
Q3. I'd like to wrap the blogs in my XOOPS theme. What do I mean? basically, I'd like to keep my site header and navigation menus (left column) where they usually are, with the blog occupying the remaining space and using it's own theme. How would I do this?
Man, I should leave off there. If I write any more questions here people are going to complain (if it's not too late already).
If you (phppp) or anyone else can find the time to help me out, I would appreciate it immensely. This looks like an awesome mod, and I'm sure there are a load of folk out there that would love to put it to good use. My thanks to you and your team once again.
Never let a man who does not believe something can be done, talk to a man that is doing it.
