I’ve had another friend ask me to help set up a blog for them. For a variety of reasons, I’m going to host it. Since this is the fourth blog I am now hosting for others, I’m thinking about installing WordPressMU, the multiuser version of WordPress that’s under development. I have custom tools that I’m adding all the time to the FatMixx installation (including an automatic athlete name linker and some ad tools that are under development), and this seems to be the easiest way to offer those type of features to everyone in a centralized manner.

If you’re interested in being a guinea pig on this install, let me know. What I’ll likely do is set this new person up with a standard WP installation, but then I’ll work on the MU install and work on the migration software to move them to the MU install when it’s stable.

I think this could be kind of fun. Centralize the management and hosting costs and let everyone manage and run their own blogs and templates (including their own advertising accounts, Amazon associates info, etc.). And, it makes my life easier so that I’m not updating 4 WordPress installations each time there’s an update. I’m not looking forward to the WordPress 2.0 upgrade process, especially after some of the grief others have had.