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A simple question, I think. How do you create a second (and third) blog. I can't find any reference to it at the web site or within the admin area.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Hi!

Serendipity does not support the concept of "multiple blogs".

There are several ways though to achieve what you want:

- If you have some technical knowledge, you can use the "Shared Installation" feature. This uses one installation of Serendipity to power multiple independent blogs with just one directory on your server, and then multiple "empty" directories that use the filebase. This is like a "PEAR" module for a blog.

- The most easy way is to just install Serendipity a second time. However, this will also create a completely independent blog with different users etc.

- The way that comes close to what you want is to use different Categories. Just create a new parent directory like "Blog B", where you will put all your contents of "Blog B". Together with the plugins "Toggle Sidebar state" (serendipity_event_sidebarhider) and "Extended options for Categories" (serendipity_event_categorytemplates) you can assign different options to different categories, so that they have an individual design with individual sidebars displayed on each blog. You might also want to use the plugin "Start Category" (serendipity_event_startcat) to define what default content your blog should show. You might also want to search this forum and the blog.s9y.org site for some discussion about this.

HTH,
Garvin

Thank you for such a quick reply. I'll have to disect your comments and look into it.