Creative Loafing Blogs
In a push to consolidate our blogs, and put them all under the same umbrella, we switched our blog publishing platforms, ditching Typepad and venturing into the world of Open Source, by adopting Wordpress.
The Wordpress people have put together something called WP Mu, or Wordpress Multi User. In essence, it allows you to have multiple Wordpress installs under one hood, so you can be, say, an alt-weekly who publishes a half-dozen blogs or so, and run them from one back-end, and easily incorporate them into your website.
The decision was based on multiple factors, but the most important of them all, is the fact that now we can “house†our blogs within our site. They’ll look just like our regular content, except they’ll be the same blogs you’re used to.
By no means will it be a smooth process. Open source is open source is open source. And although we all get to enjoy the benefits of free software while spreading its reach, we also have to go about finding solutions to our own peculiar problems.
Fortunately for us, the awesome team (and user base) behind the Wordpress forums and community is savvy enough to dig each other out from technical traps we may encounter along the way.