Nazgulled
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Posted 2 years ago #
Hi,
I'm considering using WP as a CMS for my new website and I would like that to be http://www.mydomain.com of course (I already own my domain). However, I'd like to have the blogging part at blog.mydomain.com.
Any solutions how could I achieve that?
Besides that, but this is secondary (but important too). I would also like to have the main startup page at http://www.mydomain.com to act somewhat as the blog itself but display blog posts from a specif category, like "Website News". Possible? How?
Nazgulled
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
Nazgulled
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
I really need this, nobody has any ideas how can I achieve it?
You can set your home page to a "Static" page with no Posts,
Pages can be used then for additional information you want to show visitors. The book "WordPress for Dummies" has a whole section on CMS and WordPress.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page
You don't need to have two locations unless your blog is not related to your main business (if you wanted a blog for friends and family for example) - The above link also shows how to display Posts as part of the main section but set up so that Visitors need to click on your blog to see the Posts.
See also: http://codex.wordpress.org/New_To_WordPress_-_Where_to_Start
Nazgulled
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
But that's not what I want.
I don't need to have two locations but I want to have two locations. That's how I want to organize my website.
I want all my pages to be accessible through:
http://www.mydomain.com (front page with some content)
http://www.mydomain.com/about-me
http://www.mydomain.com/contat
http://www.mydomain.com/projects
etc...
And my blog accessible through:
http://blog.mydomain.com (front page with latest posts)
http://blog.mydomain.com/feed
http://blog.mydomain.com/archives
http://blog.mydomain.com/tag/something
I really want to organize my website like this if it's possible...
You can have two separate WordPress installs on most host sites (I have two on my home site - they are in sub directories but I could put one in a sub-domain if I wanted)
There are several ways to do what you want - the one that I am familiar with is:
Section One: mydomain.com
Section Two: blog.mydomain.com
Most hosts allow that - WordPress has no problem with two independent installs - There is the ability to put both installs on one database but I have never tried it.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
This deals with sub directory installs but a sub-domain should be abut the same - look in "Docs" (top of this page) for more specific help - sorry I don't have the link handy
Nazgulled
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
I would like to avoid the double install if it's possible... I will have to do that already for a multilingual blog (none of the existing plugins satisfy my needs for the moment). Doing that again, would leave me with 4 WP installs.
Really painful to maintain...
