does anyone know enough (and have the time) to answer a bunch of questions I have about Wordpress-mu (Xpress-mu)?
Help would be much appreciated.

why don't post your questions directly?

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.

xoopsforge.com was the site for most of my modules. It looks like a blogger site just because I use the blogger theme (which is downloadable from the xf site).

Upon your demands, seems the XPress 2.04 MU is the right module. It is a XOOPS module which is wrapped inside XOOPS theme. It provides individual presentation for each user (author). The webmaster has master control over the module preferences, like category creation, theme selection.

Do not use the WordPress mu. If you really need a multi-blog multi-user blog system, lifestyle is much better than wordpress mu although I have always been looking forward to a really multi-blog from the wordpress dev group.

many thanks for answering Q1, phppp. I think I'll stick with Xpress and see how I get on as I get more used to using it.

Does anyone have any answers for Q2 or Q3?

Thanks in advance.

*bump*

I too am looking to provide the same thing for my members. I am using 2.2.4 and tried the new Xpress MU version but had all kinds of problems and couldnt quite get it to work properly. The whole thing is a bit confusing so for now I am continuing to use WeBlog but it lacks alot of features that I want for my members. Is this "lifestyle" blog you spoke of in the works for a XOOPS conversion?

Is there a link for the Lifestyle blog? I tried to google it and cant seem to find any info on it.

phppp mis-typed the name. He should have written LifeType.
It seems that there are moves afoot to modularize this for XOOPS over amongst the folk at xoops.org.cn. Can't read Chinese though, so I'm not much the wiser for knowing this.
Since writting here, I have established that Xpress2.04MU does NOT provide for multiple blogs. Only multiple users. This is not a port of WordPress MU (which is at v.1) but rather a hack of regular WordPress 2.04. There are some folk (also Chinese) trying to hack the real MU to work with Xoops, but again my lack of Chinese hinders my understanding of how far along they've come.

What's the latest on the blog / multi-user blog issue?

I have one site running XOOPS 2.2 and want multi-blog functionality for that. I have a second site running XOOPS 2.0.* and want a single-blog on that one which will be easy to import posts/data into from an existing standalone WordPress blog.

Any ideas on what my current best options are for these situations?

Thanks,

-b-

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Ow mann how I wish I was a programmer. Integrating this blog into XOOPS would be a thing!