Attempting Dual WP Blogs on One Godaddy Hosted Site
Reading about Wordpress mu was exciting to me until I learned my Economy, shared Godaddy hosting plan wouldn’t support it. I guess you have to pay extra for the Deluxe plan, and a dedicated IP address or something like that.
There is still hope, though. Because all I want is a second blog (not the plethera that would necessitate the dedicated IP), I may yet be able to set it up. First, I upgraded my Wordpress to 2.8.4. My intention was to then install a second Wordpress directory for the new blog, and create a second database to facilitate it. However, now I seem to already have two blogs: one with all of the posts I had previously made in my first blog, but in the old WP version, and a second blog in WP 2.8.4 that looks a lot like my old blog, but with only about half of my posts. I’m wondering whether they’re both referring to the same database, so I’m writing this post to see whether it shows up in both, or just one blog.
Here’s hoping for the best.
Looks like both blogs are functionally separate. The active one (the one this post is making it to) hasn’t been upgraded, and is still in WP2.2. How I can upgrade it, I’m not sure. I’ll have to look a little deeper than Godaddy’s quick-fix application upgrade menu that seemed to have upgraded a previous rev I had of this blog in a different directory instead. But, for now, I’m OK with scooping out the content of the now upgraded one, and keeping the old version for this one.
Comment by admin — October 17, 2009 @ 10:30 pm