Adsense and Wordpress MU
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
I promised a post on Wordpress MU vs. Wordpress single user version 2.3.1. For any person that is planing to start their own Adsense network you would need to take the decision which website type you will use for your network. You have the choice between standard websites, CMS websites like Joomla or going with a blog website. My advice is, if you want to blog then stick with Wordpress. If your choice is Wordpress then there is one further decision you must take, Wordpress Single or Muti User version ? I have tested both versions and after sufficient testing I came to following results. I will only mention several in this post. Will be happy to answer any questions in our forum:
Wordpress MU (Multi User)
1.) Installation is simple if you don’t have any experience with WP as there are different settings in the MU version. The config sample file does not need to be renamed as in 2.3.
2.) To get the MU version to function there are some changes that need to be applied to one of the Apache server files. Sufficient info can be found in the Wordpress MU forum so I will not go into details. If you are on shared hosting your provider might not allow these changes. In my case these where standard settings and all went well. In addition you need a DNS wildcard for the main or sub domain you are using to host WPMU.
3.) Setting up a new blog is fairly simple. With a few clicks you have a blog, ready to start adding contents.
4.) All blogs can be run via 1 MySql data base which is a huge advantage especially if your hosting solution does not include a huge number of data bases.
5.) Plugins don’t work as well with MU hosted blogs as they do in version 2.3
6.) The biggest problem that I could not solve was that any person can register a blog and there is only the choice of locking registration or optionally letting any person register. Both are not suitable. The option of confirming registrations via e-mail is missing.
Wordpress version 2.3.1 Single user
