Can somebody tell me how I am supposed to be using blogs.dir for network / MU sites?

blogs.dir was the way to handle specific blog plugins and themes when it was WordPress-MU but since version 3 came out and the WordPress-MU was integrated into WordPress Core and introduced WordPress Multisite, that’s no longer the story. WordPress Handles the creation of the new blogs/sites in the database and mainly in the background so … Read more

Permalinks not working

The problem was that somewhere AllowOverride was set to None, but I don’t know where that httpd.conf file was. I set it through some GUI tool that comes on the Mac. Apparently the file I was trying to edit was not the one that was being used. Thanks for your help, Pothi and JMa.

Per site configuration

You should make a plugin, that way it is portable to any theme. Generally speaking people need to stop filling up functions.php or theme files with code that is better suited for scalability and flexibility, aka a plugin.

Does WordPress MultiSite use separate MySql databases?

WordPress MU uses one database and each blog gets his own tables with the blog id in the prefix, so once you install a network installation your database should have these tables: wp_1_categories wp_1_comments wp_1_link2cat wp_1_links wp_1_options wp_1_post2cat wp_1_postmeta wp_1_posts wp_blogs wp_blog_versions wp_registration_log wp_signups wp_site wp_sitecategories wp_sitemeta wp_usermeta wp_users And every new site you set … Read more