Comments on: Implementing the WordPress Shared Users Table Trick

By: Eric Marden

Eric Marden — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:22:17 +0000

You will need to start over with your blogs separated. Install a new blog with a unique table prefix, and get it to ‘hook’ into the admin account you have now, as explained in this blog. Then import the content from the 2nd blog into this new instance, and you should be good to go. I’m pretty sure only new blog installs can use the Shared Users Table trick.

By: Brooks

Brooks — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:19:49 +0000

I had multiple installs in different databases and combined them all into my main db using a different table prefix for each. I have done all the necessary editing in the wp-config.php file, and am now not able to log into my other secondary blog. It is saying that I dont have sufficient permissions. I found a code change for the capabilities file, but that has not proven successful either. Do you know of a way to fix this problem? The username/passwords for all of my blogs were setup as the same, but are all different in the user database tables due to the hash system. I have tried copying the pw listed in the original installations’ user table to the secondary user table, but it’s not working either. Suggestions?

By: Eric Marden

Eric Marden — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:29:50 +0000

Sub-directories sure, but not on separate domains, which is how I set it up when I originally did this for the client.

Great Link, though!

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By: Vince

Vince — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:41:42 +0000

Thank you for this explanation

“cookies can’t be shared between them easily”
There is a procedure here to enable cookie sharing between WP subdirectories or WP subdomains : http://techblog.touchbasic.com/html/single-unified-login-for-multiple-wordpress-2-8-installs-in-subdirectories-using-cookies/

Tested with success on WP 2.8.5

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