Welcome, craayzle. I hate to say it, but at this point in its development, Habari may not be the way to go to meet your goals for the site. While Habari can serve multiple sites from the same code base, each site has to be created and installed individually. While the creation and installation can be scripted, Habari currently has no internal mechanism to do the creation. Once they are created, there is currently no way to administer each of the sites centrally. While a plugin to do so could be written, and is something I'd like to see, the capability isn't built in. Nor, at this time, are sites that live in subdirectories (i.e., mysite.com/myblog ) possible. One can make a site appear as if it lives at such a location, but to the best of my knowledge, only once per site. This functionality is intended in the future. Improving Habari's multisite capabilities is the intended focus of Habari 0.8, but it isn't possible now.
http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Multisite shows how multisite installations are handled at the moment. If you look at http://wiki.habariproject.org/en/Installation#Predefined_Configuration , you'll see how a pre-filled out configuration file can be used to automate installation. Regarding some of the other features you listed, if plugins for the functionality don't already exist ( take a look at http://habariproject.org/dist/plugins ), plugins for most of it should be possible. Fima Leshinsky already pointed you to the list of Habari powered sites. I don't know which of these are large or heavily customized. I do know some individuals are using Habari in client work. Such work is one source of the issues we find need improved with Habari. :) Rick On Mar 1, 1:18 am, craayzie <[email protected]> wrote: > For the last couple of months I've been learning/developing on WPMU. > It's been pretty painful. This post does a decent job describing that > pain:http://www.phpvs.net/2009/12/08/an-exercise-in-wordpress-integration-... > > I'm looking to build a site that, at it's core, is a cross between > WPMU and Ning: a multi-site install of WPMU + Buddypress. More > specifically, any user should be able to register for their own site > (e.g. user1.domain.com) and on this site they can create as many blogs > as they wish (e.g. user1.domain.com/blog1). I believe Habari supports > this type of multi-site install. > > In it's full maturity, the site will have (in order of priority) > > * premium services with pay-pal integration > * facebook/twitter activity feed integration > * iphone/mobile phone support (both publishing and viewing) > * social networking features > * ad-revenue sharing > > It's possible to put together a prototype of the above in WPMU and I'm > getting close to shelling out $$$ to have someone develop it, but > longer term Wordpress just doesn't seem the way to go. > > Is Habari the right platform for me to build on? Can you point me to > any "large" and/or heavily customized sites running Habari or _any_ > sites running Habari for that matter? Anything else I should know > before taking the dive? > > Thanks in advance for reading and replying and great work so far to > all the contributors, it looks like a great product! -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-users
