Multiple blogs/display

[febone]

Ok, seems as though we need to support three separate blogs on this site, one for each of three categories of users, "staff", "members","recruits".

If I log in as "staff" it would be nice to be able to view all three blogs on the same page (it might be ok to break out to a separate page to post).

If I log in as a "recruit" I should only be able to see the recruit blog.

I guess I can handle the three views with php switched styles, but I need to know if we can display all three blogs on the same page (in separate "windows" or divs).

Can we do this, and are there any tricks to making it happen? I guess I am also asking if the underlying assumption that we can have three distinct blogs on one site under one site login is correct. I think I saw a news bulletin describing how to do it with an apache server somewhere on the site.

Thanks,
Francis.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Serendipity does not support "multiple blogs". You can use multiple categories as their own parts. Using the plugin "Extended options for categories" you can assign individual templates for each category. Using the category sidebar plugin you can even set to hide parts of the category tree when being in one of the parents.

You might want to search the forum or blog.s9y.org about this 'multi-blog' / 'multi-category' / 'sub-category' stuff, there should be some postings around it.

The upside of this is that the frontpage of the usual blog will display all categories, so there you have your overview blog.

Best regards,
Garvin