Turn Categories into individual blogs

[manateemedia]

Hello! first off, I LOVE the Thesis theme... it's awesome!

Here's what I would like to see. I would like to see a theme or new thesis feature where you could make individual blogs out of each main blog category.

What do I mean by this?

Well, I've tried to manage many wordpress installations on seperate domains and have found it to be a pain in the neck. My new strategy is to focus on a blog on one domain and set up categories on that domain instead of a whole new domain for each niche.

But...

It would be nice to make the categories look different when people arrive.

Perhaps a unique masthead and color scheme for each category?

I think there's already a way to do this, but I'd like to see an easy way to do it.

Hope this makes sense?

[kingdomgeek]

You can use is_category() in template files to customize anything on a per-category basis.

But have you checked out WordPress μ? It allows you to run multiple blogs from one installation.

[rumblepup]

I think that Greg Boser:Greg Boser - Search Marketing Consultant has a cat as a subdomain plugin available.

Yup he does. check it out here
WordPress Subdomain Plugin

Whoops. Just checked, it's no longer there. Maybe somebody has in in a cache someplace.