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Hmm..I just reread what I wrote and I feel like it’s as clear as I can make it, but I’ll try again. (In the past, I’ve just posted things like this to vcoder.com and paid someone $50 to do it for me, btw.)

Backup whatever your have in your existing site.

Create subdomains via cpanel or whatever, which point to folders called your respective site names, “actor” and “trainer”, which would create subdomains equal to what you’ve requested there. This may be the most difficult step if you don’t have cPanel, you may have to ask your host for help.

From there, install wordpress into each folder. So instead of @document root, you’ll actually install wordpress twice, once into each folder listed above. Set them up however you want.

The trick with subdomains is that they’re just redirects, so if you go to, say, katherinegrantsuttie.com/actor you’ll get the same thing, because the redirect is just pointing to a folder in the domain. Regardless, actor.k…. is what you want, so use that.

Now, at document root, you’ll have nothing but two folders, actor and trainer. Create an index.html document that resembles the template of the rest of the sites (or not, make it fresh) that maybe has your into or welcome or whatever, then put two big fat links on it, one that points to actor and one that points to trainer. Put that index.html file in document root.

Now, whenever someone goes to katherinegrantsuttie.com, they’ll get that index.html file, and then make their choice of where to go.

Depending on how you install wordpress (the automatic way with like say Softaculous or Fantastico) or the manual way (uploading the files yourself and making the database and database user), you will have to create two distinct databases (and two distinct usernames for those databases, to keep it simple. One works, but its easy to get confused.) I like Softaculous, hate Fantastico, and recommend manually as the least-likely-to-mess up. Softaculous or Fantastico will create the users and db’s for you, manually you’ll have to create them yourself.

Hope that helps.

Your question is kind of vague. Do you want all sites to have the same content? Do what CurtisMchale says.

Do you want to have multiple unique sites in one hosting package? Depends entirely on your host, probably, you’ll need to check with them, but probably yes. Can you have completely unique domain names (www.yoursite.com) under one account? MAYBE—again depends on the host and you’ll need to check with them. There will be some DNS or #name editing involved.

Or, are you wanting for example pics.yoursite.com and friends.yoursite.com, each with its own unique wordpress install? These are subdomains, and are probably but not necessarily allowed by your host. Create the subdomain, which will probably add a folder @ root, then install wordpress into that folder.

I just split one site into almost identical, but not identical, sites for two locations of the same business. I simply set up subdomains (location.yoursite.com), and installed wordpress into that for each location. Then at root, I removed the wordpress install and created an index.html landing page, where people click their desired location to be taken to their respective site.

Hope that helps.