Setting up wordpress Multiple blogs on BlueHost
Are you a webmaster who wants to run multiple wordpress blog sites? You can achieve this by either installing separate WordPress installation for each site or by using wordpress multiuser functionality to control and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard.
Host multiple wordpress sites on 1 account
The BlueHost WordPress blog hosting support 100 MySQL databases and you can host unlimited domain names. This means that you an can run multiple blogs (up to 100 sites) under a single hosting account.
Step 1: Add Addon Domains. Bluehost allows you to add unlimited addon domains. With an addon domain you can create a directory within your main hosting account and direct another domain to the directory. Here is an article about how to create an addon domain on bluehost.
Step 2: Install wordpress on that domain. Read article about how to install wordpress on bluehost.
Use wordpress multisite on bluehost
If you want to control you wordpress blogs/sites in one place then now it is possible with WordPress Multi Site . Manage WP allows users to add more than two wordpress blog to Manage WP account and after adding those, we can easily control all the added wordpress blog in one place. Read wordpress article about this feature. Even though wordpress is not recommending this on shared hosting, I have seen a few people make WordPress Multi Site work with their BlueHost installation. Some people claims that bluehost do not support wildcard subdomains. In fact you can add wildcard subdomains from your bluehost cpanel. Since bluehost provides a 30-day money back guarantee, you can try risk free.
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