2 WordPress sites, one installation?
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Hi,
I currently have a WordPress site function as my main site right now (estrombone.com) and everything works great. Recently I’ve been thinking about starting a blog but I want to have it separate from estrombone.com in that I want to keep that one more professional and only for career related stuff, whereas I can blog away on a separate blog. If possible, I want to just do this under one domain, so I don’t know about using subdomains, or just having it be something like estrombone.com/blog.
The question…how and is it worth it? I’ve looked into some of the options, and they all seem rather difficult. I was looking at WordPress MU, but I read on the forums that it’s rather difficult and wouldn’t be worth it for such a small installation. I found a few hacks involving subdomains and splitting up databases or something, but I found those are rather complicated as well. Right now the way I was thinking of doing it was to install another whole installation of WordPress on my hosting (both with separate databases) then change the RSS link on my main page to say “blog”, then link to the blog site which would have a different theme. The only concern I’d have with that would be the inconvinience of having two different logins and managing two sets of everything like plugins as well as stuff like google indexing the new one, analytics, etc.
Ideally I’m trying to find a way to make 2 separate sites that have one hub…aka 2 wordpress sites from 1 installation, but I can’t seem to find a not so complex way of doing it, or at least I can’t find the Idiot’s Guide, because all the step by step guides escape me somewhat.
Any help/ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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