September 15, 2008 WP-Universe creates a blog universe based on categories of a WordPress blog.
Blog universe is a WordPress blog which serves more than one domain/subdomain. WP-Universe does not require any coding/template editing but automatically handles the universe-creation. To explain the concept universe;
Let’s assume we have a blog – http://www.myblog.com – which is our main blog. Let’s say we have categories gaming, coding and life. After enabling WP-Universe you can match categories to universe subdomains or domains;
- Category Gaming -> http://gaming.myblog.com
- Category Coding -> http://coding.myblog.com
- Category Life -> http://life.myblog.com
With a simple configuration your universe will be;
- http://www.myblog.com – Main Blog / Universe / Serves all content from all categories
- http://gaming.myblog.com – Gaming Universe; will just serve content from GAMING category and it’s subcategories.
- http://coding.myblog.com – Coding Universe; will just serve content from CODING category and it’s subcategories.
- http://life.myblog.com – Life Universe; will just serve content from LIFE category and it’s subcategories.
Demos & Sites Using
WP-Universe runs on my main blog, check;
- http://www.huseyinuslu.net – Main Universe
- http://war.huseyinuslu.net – Warhammer Online Portal
- http://wow.huseyinuslu.net – World of Warcraft Portal
- http://devel.huseyinuslu.net – Coding Portal
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Seems forgot to put plugin’s homepage link;
http://www.huseyinuslu.net/wp-universe/
Can you please update the post?
correct me if I am wrong, but this looks like a wp plugin and not one for wpmu?
it just works with wpmu
ok so it would basically take a category of the main blog and display its content as a subblog (if I asume we have a subdomain install of wpmu) ?
Category Gaming -> http://gaming.myblog.com so gaming.myblog.com would feature a category instead of a standalone blog?
one more question: I read the official description:
what does suitable mean? how does this plugin picks featured content? Based on number of comments of the posts? Just the latest posts? based on number of views of the posts?
Talking about using it on a wpmu installation of course
@ovidiu, regarding your first post, correct.
In your second post, the description is from my other wordpress plugin featplug but not the wp-universe
oops. dunno how it came I posted that here. completely wrong place. But you could still answer it please or should I rather post it somewhere else?
Default functionality is it gets the latest posts but with using $filters you can change the way it looks for featured posts. Check http://featplug.huseyinuslu.net/documentation#featplug_wp_render_-_output_template_selection
Wonderful. Thank You.
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Hi Huseyin,
I’ve followed the instructions for WP Universe on my site: http://www.naturalplanet.ca/
I have several top level categories that have URL in the description field.
WP Universe is enabled.
From my CPanel I have mapped subdomains to the /public_html root. but it doesn’t want to work.
When I type in the subdomain and it sends me to a wordpress sign-up page.
http://yellowstone.naturalplanet.ca/
sends me to
http://naturalplanet.ca/wp-signup.php?new=yellowstone
Is there some low level thing that needs to be disabled or coded out in WP to get through to your plugin? As it appears that it’s being caught before it can see that I’ve specified that this subdomain should take the yellowstone category content.
I would really appreciate any help.
Thanks
Oli