Wordpress Dev Test

It looks like we’ve fixed all the bugs mentioned so far. Once you install it, all of your current links (including your feed and comments) should be rewritten to the appropriate subdomain. It also handles all the 301’s for your old urls, so you don’t need to spend anytime worrying about links out on the web. (I just checked Dave’s site and his links to this site all work).

Also, I forgot to mention in the initial post that you need to have wildcard dns enabled for this plugin to work. I’m not a big fan of doing that, because it can lead to duplicate content issues, so we added a default 301 for any subdomain that isn’t a real category.

Beyond that, the only other issue we’ve seen has to do with cookies. If you are logged in, it will appear that you are logged out when you move from category to category. We should have that worked out tomorrow.

WordPress plugin that turns your categories into subdomains. We are now running it on this site. I’m sure there might be a couple of bugs, so post comments if you find any.Update 1-28-06

v0.21 is a major rewrite. Here’s a list of the new features:

• Sub categories are now nested properly. So urls will look like http://maincategory.domain.com/subcategory/post/
• You can now make subdomains out of static pages. Sub pages will also be nested the same way sub categories are.
• You can now tie a static page to a category subdomain. http://maincategory.domain.com/staticpage/
• You can now use separate themes for individual subdomains.

The only real downside of v0.20 is the fact that it is now no longer compatible with WP 1.5. If you want to run this version, you will need to upgrade to WP 2.0

Update 1-16-06