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You can also allow multiple users to edit the same blog. This isn’t something that everyone requires, but if you need the functionality, then it’s baked in. You can have multiple blogs on the same website – just add another one, give it a new ID, add the relevant stacks and off you go.

This is pretty cool in itself, but Armadillo has plenty more tricks up its electronic sleeve. Once installed, it allows you to add blog posts to your website from any web browser, using any device. We’ve laboured through the setup process for a reason – compared with most stacks you buy, Armadillo takes time to set up, but that’s because it’s a complicated product that does a complicated job. After that, you can publish your site, go back online, log into Armadillo and create your first post. There are other stacks included in the suite (see below) but those are the crucial ones. The ones you really need are the Blog stack (which is where your blog posts will appear) the Blog Navigation stack (this displays your tags, categories, RSS feed and so on) and blog Login link stack (which allows you to log into Armadillo online). Once you’ve done that, you flip back to Rapidweaver and start adding the various blog-related stacks to your site. Now you need to log in using the details you just set up and create your first blog – Armadillo calls this a ‘page’ – giving it a name and content ID. Finally, you configure your time zone and language and you’ve completed the installation.

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Next, you have to publish the site, then navigate to the page where the main Armadillo stack resides and finish the setup from there – this involves linking it to the mySQL database and then creating an admin account for the blog, complete with password and recovery email address. We set Armadillo up on both Chillidog and Littleoak hosting and both times it was painless. This sounds scary – and can be, depending on your host and hosting package some skip over the useful info that you need, others tuck it away in unlikely places, and some of the real cheapies make you pay extra to create a database in the first place. Once you’ve installed the suite of Armadillo stacks and added the main stack to a Stacks page, you’ll need to log into your hosting account and set up a mySQL database. Unlike most stacks you purchase, you can’t just jump in and start using Armadillo. When Joe Workman’s Tumblr stack looked as though it was nearing the end of its life we were encouraged to explore other, self-hosted blogging options this led us to Armadillo – a venerable add-on by Rapidweaver standards with a good number of devoted fans on the forums – and we thought we’d take it for a spin.

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