drobbins

I’ve had similar problems with Dreamweaver; for some reason it will make weird changes to templates. I would suggest just using a notepad editor or the Theme Editor from within the WP-Admin interface – this solved a lot of problems for me, as DW was doing weird things to my code in between the local file moving to the server.

I agree with the earlier posts – a seperate blog makes things much easier than trying to hack away at the code, which I unsuccessfully tried. I have been working on something organized pretty much the same as what you described, and I found that seperate blogs work much better; although, I would recommend using separate databses if you can. Granted, you CAN use the same database with the “as-is” WordPress installation, but I have had a few bugs once I started adding plug-ins. Another great thing about the separate blogs is you can use the RSS feed from one and still “preview” the posts in that blog if you want, so from an end-user perspective it won’t necessarily feel like a whole seperate area of the Web site. I mean, it will – but in a good way – not in that “where am I?” way …

Oh – I meant to add also that mine isn’t in the sidebare, but you can easily customize a wimpy version that would fit in there …

I am doing the same thing, and I have found the FeedWordPress Plug-In (http://projects.radgeek.com/feedwordpress) to be the easiest and most user-friendly way to do this; granted, their are several others out there, but I had different quirks and bugs with lots of them, while this one seemd to be no problem …