Multiple blog SECTIONS (not separate sites) on single site.

  • djdeejay

    (@djdeejay)


    12 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    I’ll try to be very clear and concise about what I want to achieve here. I want multiple blog sections on a single WordPress install. I do not need multiple users or multiple sites (and I know WordPress MU well)

    I know how to create different sections of the same blog using categories. So you could for instance make sections that will appear to different people separate and link to them on the sidebar/header section and it will only show posts from that category in the blog format in your theme.

    This is am doing already. I have articles written under a number of different subjects which I want to keep separate from each other – so they have their own category and there isn’t a single “blog” section to my site they are linked to through the separate categories on the side bar.

    This is fine however this “main” blog section is for proper articles and written sections I want to release. On top of this id like another completely separate “casual” blog section that I can post pictures, music, movies, links, thoughts, tweets, status’ etc onto on a daily basis. A sort of micro-blogging blog I guess – completely separate to the other blog but on the same site.

    Now I want to do this by having two separate blog .php formats. I’ll have the main blog format on the site but id also like to call on a separate .php, to be precise, this one..
    http://www.elegantthemes.com/demo/?theme=Notebook

    I really like the way it displays the boxes with different media in, seems perfect for my second idea – but would it work with multiple blog (or posts) sections? I suppose the difficulty you have is how would the posts know which section to post into…could you make a category use the different .php file with loops somehow?

    Open to ideas how to achieve this without doing a separate install for the other blog section and then linking to it…

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  • Justin Greer

    (@justingreerbbi)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    The only way to really do what you are talking about is to have two pages that hold different content.

    say you write about two different thing but you want the theme to be completely different. I will use “food” and “sports”
    Create two php files in your theme folder

    page-food.php

    and

    page-sports.php

    Design the food page the way you want it and then design the sports as another design. The page-food.php will pull my from my food category and the page-sports.php will pull from my sports category

    or just buck up and use WPMU and just use directory linking and not sub-doamin

    Star Verte LLC

    (@starverte)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    With WordPress, you can accomplish the same thing using different methods, and each method has a slightly different result.

    @justingreerbbi suggested to do this by creating Page Templates for individual categories.

    But how I would approach it is by having at least one custom post type. Then you could have your “Blog” propagated by Posts, and your sections propagated by [Insert Custom Post Type Name].

    Thread Starter djdeejay

    (@djdeejay)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks guys – I think the way I was thinking it would work is similar to what Justin said.

    @starverte could you expand slightly on your side with the custom post type name?

    Thread Starter djdeejay

    (@djdeejay)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    @starverte am I correct in thinking I can make a custom post type appear in the left hand side bar of admin panel where pages. posts etc appear?

    Star Verte LLC

    (@starverte)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Yes, that is correct. You could have your Custom Post Type be something as generic as “Posts2” and then the different sections could be a custom taxonomy of categories for the posts, or you could have a Custom Post Type for each section.

    For more info, as well as documentation on how you would register your custom post type, visit http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types

    I used custom post types when developing the menu on cafedebangkok.net. The menu pages are actually custom taxonomy archive pages for the different parts of the menu, and each menu item is a “post”

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