Best approach to two "blog" folders

  • tgcreate

    (@tgcreate)


    12 years, 3 months ago

    For a church site revamp, I want to use WordPress blog capabilities for two different functions: a pastor’s blog, and a news page. These will share the same look but be in different locations on the site (i.e. domainname.com/blog/ and domainname.com/news/ ).

    Would there be a way to post two kinds of categories to different index pages, or would the best approach here be to go multisite?

    TIA.

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  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Take a look at the Blog In Blog plugin.

    Thread Starter tgcreate

    (@tgcreate)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks, will take a look.

    Thread Starter tgcreate

    (@tgcreate)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Hm, I’m not sure that’s what I’m looking for.

    The root folder of my site is not intended to be WordPress (although I’ll do something custom on the home page to get latest news posts showing in a small column). WordPress is primarily intended to be in 3 folders: /members/ , /blog/ , and /news/ . /members/ will use the pages function and require signin to view; the other two are essentially blogs.

    Christine Rondeau

    (@crondeau)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    I would keep things simple. Set up 2 categories one blog, the other news.

    Then in your navigation, you can create two links, one for each category. You can then also style the category templates if you wanted.

    Thread Starter tgcreate

    (@tgcreate)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Well, that’s not really the question. The issue that I was hoping to have three folders with WP in parallel, but not in the root directory. From what I’m seeing, the only way to accomplish that would be to rewrite the URLs somehow… I surely don’t want three installs of WP on one site if I can help it.

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    AFAIK, there can be only one wp-config.php for a given WP install. That would mean it would not be possible to have 3 totally separate blogs (3 databases) with one WP install.

    Thread Starter tgcreate

    (@tgcreate)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    Thanks. I don’t think that separate databases are necessary or desirable.

    vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    12 years, 3 months ago

    That may be OK if you want all users to have the same privileges in all sites, and have some way to separate the content by site.

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