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I have been using EE for a year now for my teaching site, and as it gets more complex and allows for more student interaction, I am realizing that the number of weblogs I have is growing (still under 10, but growing).

I am curious as to if other EE users tend to create new weblogs or make their existing weblogs more complex with categories?

Totally depends on the situation. 10 is nowhere near critical, though 😊

Totally depends on the situation. 10 is nowhere near critical, though 😊

Why?
I think thats no-good if you must limit your weblogs with EE. I have some huge projects in my mind and yet atm i run a site what has 29. But i might put those together somehow if and when i get to know categories better and when i can put them to be shown more nicely without nested or linear lists..

Cheers:
- Tuittu

tuittu, I think you misunderstood me: “nowhere near critical” means that this number is not even approaching the limits of EE, that it is totally fine. I have certainly used more than that on occasion. It might become unwieldy in the control panel at some point, but EE will not limit you there.

[clip]It might become unwieldy in the control panel at some point[/clip]

Tell me about it =) The templategroups and weblog handling are harder if you use many many weblogs. But good to know that it doesnt slower or something from EE to work nicely to frontend visitors and users.

Cheers:
- Tuittu

Ok, I feel better then about adding a new weblog instead of just reworking the categories in existing ones to work.

We’re running 28 blogs across 3 sites, all under one EE installation.

28, huh?  How thought out is the process of creating a new weblog versus modifying one with categories…

The challenge with the one weblog and categories approach is that it forces you to use one fieldset for your whole site.  With multiple weblogs you can customize the fieldset to be more appropriate for the content type being displayed.

Plus - if you have multiple content administrators you can setup member groups and permissions more specifically if you’ve used multiple weblogs.

I also like having Publish and Edit options that—for the most part - match the main navigation of the site.  Clients seem to pick it up easier.

You can always use categories or relationships to pull content from seperate weblogs back together if need be.

FWIW - I have 19 weblogs on my Boyink.com install - running Boyink.com proper, a family extranet, and powering the site that is built in the tutorial series.

I like that idea of having weblogs to match navigation or sections of the site.