When we were setting up Ampli5.org we were considering using WordPress MU. However installing it was complicated and it didn’t always support all the plugins and themes that worked well in standard WordPress versions. So we decided to install stand alone WordPress versions for each user and leave them in charge of upgrading their blogs as they saw fit.

When someone contacts me or George and asks them for a blog, I give George their contact details and he sets up the WordPress blog and I sometimes do the Cpanel backend work such as databases. WordPress automatically sends out an email with username and password details to the user. This email is promptly lost in the spam or gets deleted and most of the time we end up having to send users a new password. Then later I send them another email with FTP details and some other information.