Mortfiles Evolved

Going wordpress mu

// July 14th, 2009 // Development

After some toying this weekend I have decided to go for a setup using Wordpress mu, the Wordpress multiblogsystem.

There are many reasons for choosing Wordpress mu and for me the biggest reasons was that it will allow me better flexibility, more focused plugin usage to avoid speed degradation and the fact that it will make my life a whole lot easier. The fact that I can later plugin community functions are just the icing on the cake

My first step will be to install Wordpress mu and setup the Main blog area to be the entrypage and then transfer the Support area so I can redirect my clients  there. The support area will actually be the most blog-heavy area of the website where I look forward to building the entire FAQ using Wordpress mu. This will be a truly versatile FAQ database indeed where I will take good use of the many possibilities of Wordpress.

Once the entry page and support area is complete I’ll start working on the main blog again to build up the bulk of the website using pages and posts side by side with the use of custom fields if things work out as planned. The thought is to add custom fields to each page where I can input the ID of posts I want included in a section that is tabbed up using Jquery UI. That way I can manage all content separate, which is a bit like I have worked before with include files…but now it will be so much easier to manage!

After that I will setup my blog again and “simply” import all the data from the old database and work with that a bit. I will rework the blog a bit to make it easier to work with for me and to leave room for outside participation…I’ll write more about that later. The reason for adding the blog before I add things like the portfolio is that I have a serious itch about writing!

After the blog I will add the Portfolio and then the company section before I start pondering on other things. I have some scetchy plans about adding a dedicated downloads section and a blog just for status about the hosting to make them independent and easy to manage. I also have thoughts about setting up a forum (ipb) and use that for authentication purposes, but I am not sure…maybe I’ll just stick with bbpress which ties in well with Buddypress that is the next step (maybe) or skip it alltogether…we’ll see how that evolve.