Got link? It'll answer questions you haven't answered, like what version you're running and what skin you're using. And we'll be able to figure out some of what you mean. For example "We expect at least 2 blogs per person per month" doesn't make sense unless you really expect each user to create two new blogs per month. You probably meant "... 2 blog posts per ..." yah?

Anyway I suspect your server can't handle pretty URLs Are you by any chance hosting on a microsloth server?

Sorry. You are correct - 2 blog posts per month : )

Here's a link to an individual's blog:

http://blogs.wineandhospitalitynetwork.com/index.php/lpomeroy/

The main blog will be http://blogs.wineandhospitalitynetwork.com/index.php

I wish to link to the individual's blogs in the main once I get things sorted with the issue here.

Okay so what you're looking for, to link individual blogs to the main one is the "blog list" widget added to the main blog.

The "recently" link is pretty silly really. ALL it does is point to the main page of the blog it happens to be on. Nothing ever gets listed under it is what I mean. I guess it could be useful if someone was on a single post page from way back in time and wanted to get to the main page, but the blog title typically does that very nicely.

I have no clue why your archives aren't working on the blog you linked.

Oh and if you want content on the main page you will have to either post into that blog or aggregate other blogs into the main one. That would be a setting on one of the Blog settings subtabs, but I don't know which one off hand.

I suggest you have a play with a few of the widgets. Post List is a way to get some posts from any given blog into the sidebar for example.

ok - thanks for the tip. the individual blogs were showing on the top right of the main blog and so i made them not viewable in the public list. i'd rather have a list view so i'll look at that blog list widget. thx

so "recently" is fairly useless. can that be removed? the post list widget sounds a lot more in line with what i want.

archives...hmm.

so i can see that there was a customized skin setup and the sidebar 2 is not part of the current skin. looks like the "post list" widget is part of this sidebar 2. i tried to edit the skin but don't see the option to add the sidebar. also, there is the option to "reload containers" but i'm hesitant to do that as i don't know what it resets.

i added the post list widget to the existing sidebar so people can look at previous post titles. i also removed the "recently" and "archive" navigation links as they are useless.

Ok - finally got the archive to work. I had to set archive grouping to "post by post" .. setting to any of the other grouping options would give me a message "nothing to display".