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1. JaffyDesigns
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi guys, would love to get some opinions on this.

   I have my portfolio site built in straight HTML (I know, I created it before I knew anything about WP), and have a decent blog running on WordPress in a subfolder called '/blog'.

   http://jaffydesigns.com, and http://jaffydesigns.com/blog

   I want to get my HTML site moved over to WordPress, and have a different theme for the site versus the blog, so I have a few questions:

   • Would it be better to setup a multisite WP install, or would a separate WP install in the root directory be ok? I want to be able to pull in posts from the blog into the main site, so I'm thinking that multiple separate installs might not accommodate this.
   • If a multisite install is preferable, what's the best way to go about doing this? Would I need to take my existing WP install at /blog, and move it up to the root folder, before re-setting up my blog install, and migrating that content back? Seems like a really redundant process
   • What might be the SEO implications of whichever methods you guys suggest? I don't want to lose what precious little ranking I've managed to carve out so far...

   I appreciate your thoughts!

   Jason

2. JaffyDesigns
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Bump, anyone? Is my question unclear?

3. Andrea Rennick
   Customer Care at Copyblogger Media and Studiopress
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Set up multisite at the main URL. Use subfolders. You'll get the /blog/ permalink off the main site by default.

   This will be one site. Not two. just one.

   If you;re planning on adding more sites, GREAT! If you were thinking of using multisite to get this particular URL structure.... you can do it with a single WP install too, by using a page called /blog/

4. JaffyDesigns
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Thanks for the reply, Andrea, I appreciate you weighing in!

   So, if I understand correctly, I need to run a separate WP install in the root folder, but set it up as a multisite install, and simply point it to my current blog's folder? So I don't need to do anything with my blog?

   I guess what I'm looking for is to have a single user login across both my site and the blog - does that help clarify?

   Sorry, I didn't fully understand everything in your answer - but then I'm known to be quite dense sometimes =)

5. Andrea Rennick
   Customer Care at Copyblogger Media and Studiopress
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I guess what I'm looking for is to have a single user login across both my site and the blog - does that help clarify?

   Then you don;t even need multisite - you can do this with one single WordPress install.

   your current site full of static html pages will be Pages in WordPress.

   your blog will be a section in the same install called "blog".

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