Creating a Blog Ring - is it possible?

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Creating a Blog Ring - is it possible?

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Started 2 years ago by jimault
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jimault
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hello, and I just joined the forum after my first download of 0.7 -- very cool and exciting. Thanks for publishing this!
I have done a small amount of PHP and WP on my way to building marketing tools for my clients. Basically, I am a tool builder and not a programmer.
Over the weekend I have strategized and built a 'blog ring' using Google's Blogger, which is simply a single-user login (google login) as admin, then the first blog that has one post holding 20 organized links. These links point to other blogs on the same server that are to be used by admin-logins only. Those 'child' blogs each have one link back to the ring master blog.

One key feature is the login-once, edit many posts & blog pages. Is there a way to keep the session $var between blog *sites* on the same server?

The Blogger setup is for proof-of-concept and is now obsolete. Pritlog seems almost ideal for my needs -- small, light, easy to embed vid.audio.images. In this case, SEO is not a factor, but soon it will be critical in my next blog creations.

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The reason for this structure is to allow my client to post info, details, ideas, and instructions for his online business, and for me to do the organization of all that for him.

What you need to understand is that each blog is a topic for his business, such as "csExpenses", "csCalendar", "csPrintMaterial", "csVideosToUse", "csInterviewsToDo", and so on. Now we can post info, audio, video, images.. then have it searchable, and I can move it to my clients web site easily.

There are several advantages to building this system for clients who are not computer savvy. (1) time-date stamping (2) info is not on personal computers [and NOT in .doc format] (3) I can access all of the info.video.images at any time (4) comments allow 2-way attached-communication (5) searchable post content (6) RSS feed (7) email notify of updates (8) I can easily add/del people to the business with user-list

PS I will be happy to do beta testing and looking under the hood, since that is the way good tools get built.

Posted 2 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

jimault ... thanks for the post. I will reply soon.

Posted 2 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

After reading and trying to understand your concept, one question that came to my mind is - is there any reason why these need to be in separate blogs, rather than separate categories on a same blog?

Using sessions across domains might be difficult especially if the sites are on different machines as sessions are stored locally on the servers. If you attempt to pass the session-id's through the query string, it makes it unsafe and any simple hacker can get to the session and hijack it. There are some ways people try to achieve it - like using a database server to store sessions, and all the other sites can access and write to this database server.

Posted 2 years ago #
jimault
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How would the different categories appear on the same blog? Would they be in chronological order? After 6 months, this could get messy and require a strong tag-search system.

The reason for separate blogs is that over 12 months of business development and marketing plans, the owners (who are not organized in their thinking) will get info mixed into several categories. The concept of each blog is that all the posts and comments are in a single category. When this becomes a little scattered, I can sort info into correct spots without losing the original notes, images, video, etc.

The first thought was to use multiple blog pages in the same domain, but that is tricky from what I can see. The second idea is that since I am the admin of a domain, I could create the separate blogs as subdomains, thus no danger of the x-domain exposure.

Each of these blogs is private and all authors can edit the posts so that old, obsolete, and duplicate data can be discarded.

Since this is (subdomain/single DB/restricted access/same login.pswd), passing the session ID will not be a problem. In WPress, all I do is go into the config file and change the prefix from 'wp_' > 'b1_' or 'b2_' and the SQL shows new tables being created in the same database. This works very well, but there is a lot of bulk in the server files.

Bottom line for this next step is...
Set all blogs in the ring to the same login.pswd for each author, then allow one login to be passed along as a session ID. In Blogspot.com, this works easily since they have a dashboard that allows 'create a new blog' and currently I have 18 in the list.

I guess what I am trying to do is use the Evernote paradigm with the advantages of a controlled blog operation. If this works, I have some power ideas beyond the simple blog.

Hmmmm, very interesting.

Posted 2 years ago #
jimault
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I guess I should wake up, slap my forehead, and do the obvious!!

Here is a link to the Blog Ring I have created (still public for now).
As you click/explore, the most valuable link is probably at the bottom of the left column called "Net Effect Magazine Videos". These are two quickie videos I published to help educate my client on the work he needs to do this Spring.

http://csblogring.blogspot.com/
The 'cs' stands for Craig Soucy, the business owner.

and my profile of a bushel of blogs
http://blogger.com/profile/13823991597433010682

How about that... a working example that I could use just like it is, BUT, it is rather unwieldy to have to use their layout tools and limitations. I like your stuff a lot better, plus it will be on my own server network.

Posted 2 years ago #
Prit
Pritlogger

Categories could be sorted easily as required by slightly changing the Pritlog script.

I now understand a little better. I have once tried a multi-blog app called Wordpress MU (http://mu.wordpress.org/). You might want to look into this if not done already.

I am not sure if Pritlog will take a turn in this direction anytime soon. If you would like to fork Pritlog and develop it into something as you wanted, do keep us informed and we would be glad to assist.

Posted 2 years ago #
xiaoxiao456
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