I was going to set up a blog with different sub domains, lets say I have a health blog or something and I wanted to do something like this: aids.health.com std.health.com flu.health.com Now I want to set up it where I can still create a post in wordpress for 'aids' and it will post the blog formate to the subdomain aids.health.com. Likewise if I create a flu post, the post would post to the flu.health.com. Would I need to install wordpress to every sub domain?
Either that, install WordPress Multiuser in subdomain mode if you want them as separate blogs or give this plugin a looksee if you want to just stay with a single install: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-subdomains/ Code (markup):
You can create subdomains through your cPanel (if you are using that) that redirect to categories of your blog....so essentially you only have one Wordpress instance.
theapparatus thanks I will have to check that plug-in out and see if it is what I'm looking for. tony rocks: This was more of what I had in mind. So I'll be able to keep 1 installation and will not have to reinstall all the plugin's, etcetera. So going back to my health example, if I had the regular website health.com but had different categories to my posts (i.e., aids, stds, flu, arthritis, etc.) then whenever they click on the category it will redirect to aids.health.com, stds.health.com, arthritis.health.com? Will I be able to create separate pages for each sub-category/domain? such that I would want to make an information page about Aids, and I wouldn't want it to show up on the STD's page stds.health.com. Or would I have to install wordpress separately for each sub domain for this to work?
You could hardcode your category listing, and have each of those link to your category subdomains...still, one installation should do the trick.