Separate blog and site

  • betadog

    (@betadog)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    I am building a company website and for SEO reasons they are thinking about hosting their blog on a subdomain or in a subfolder.

    Forget about the SEO aspect and whether this makes sense or not. I am just interested in a technical aspect right now.

    Is it possible to use WordPress as the CMS for the main company website AND the blog and have the website be reachable by the main domain and the blog by a subdomain or subfolder? Say the main website is companyabc.com and when I click on “Blog” in the main menu I get redirected to blog.companyabc.com?

    I think one could do this with two WordPress installations or one multisite installation. But is it possible two handle this with one installation of WordPress? Maybe with a plugin?

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  • Viktor Nagornyy

    (@viktorix)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    For sub-domain, no. Sub-directory, yes.

    Sub-directory is the same thing as just creating a Blog page and keeping your slug /blog/.

    There’s no difference between having blog on sub-domain or sub-directory in terms of SEO, so I would keep it all in one WP and make life so much more easier (and cheaper) for everyone.

    Thread Starter betadog

    (@betadog)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks Victor, I realize now I did not fully think this through. My WordPress blog – if it’s not on the main site – is always in a “sub-directory”. Duh.

    And for the subdomain part… this is not technically possible without multisite (and lots of pain), right?

    Viktor Nagornyy

    (@viktorix)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    For what you’re trying to do MS would be an overkill. I don’t have a ton of experience with MS, but I don’t think you would be able to have blog, websites as a sub-directory and a sub-domain. You usually set that up for all sites that are created in MS.

    What I always recommend for a business website is to have your 1 WP power entire website, including blog by simply setting up Blog page where you can have a list of posts. This is great for SEO and maintaining/updating site is much easier.

    Almavanwyk

    (@almavanwyk)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi there,

    I am really green and new to website building but my Church asked me to help them build a website and they want a separate blog where the pastor can publish his sermons. They want a link from the website to the blog and you have to register and log in to take part in the discussions.

    How would I do this, I have a website I am working on that have a blog section, whenever we publish a new post it goes in there and on the home page.

    Do I need to create to wordpress sites?

    I hope I make sense.
    Thanks

    Miroslav Glavić

    (@miroslavglavic)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Almavanwyk,

    Please start your own thread.

    Miroslav Glavić

    (@miroslavglavic)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Betadog,

    Create a page named Blog
    Then:
    Settings > Reading > A static page (select below) > Posts page > pick Blog page you just created.

    voila

    Almavanwyk

    (@almavanwyk)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Betadog, Miroslav,

    I do apologize, but how do I start my own thread?

    Thank you

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