That’s high praise for a piece of computer software. A socially useful function. Now for my socially not-so-useful reasons, I wanted to run all of my various blogs out of a single directory. That way, I only need to upgrade one directory when a new revision of wordpress comes along.

Easy? Well, mostly. We still have a couple of got-ya! kind of problems every now and then. Like how to select the proper database for the proper blog: that’s simple. Just use a switch statement in the wp-config.php file that selects the proper database from a switch on the HTTP_HOST environment variable.

One small problem, is that one of the blogs needs special code appended in the footer. This html code isn’t shared with the other blogs. Some examples of that kind of code would be ring-specific, affiliate code, hit-tracking code, you know all that kind of stuff.

So I found a plugin entitled ‘WP-GenericFooter” which did 110% of the dirty work. It’s written by David Goldstein. The only thing I needed that Dave didn’t put in the original was that he designed the plugin to put the footer at the end of each posting. I needed it as paart of the real footer at the bottom of the blog page.

It was a no-brainer to change the code to put the text at the bottom rather than at the end of each post. That is due to the great design of WordPress and the elegant coding of Mr. Goldstein (send him flowers, send him beer, I just want your web-hits).

If you want a wordpress plug-in that puts any html at the bottom footer of your blog here it is:blog footer plugin.

Let me know if it is useful to you!