Blog within blog

  • veena

    (@veena)


    19 years ago

    Hi there,

    I have a blog which I want to enhance [https://www.theratrace.vze.com]. Basically instead of just one blog on the top menubar, I want multiple blogs with their own individual categories. I thought of two methods of doing this:

    1. Literally have multiple blogs. From my understanding I cant use wp-mu for this as wp-mu is one-blog multi-user while I need multi-blog one-user.

    2. Have different pages and different categories with their own sub-category. Each page will be attached to one header category e.g. Category A, AA [sub], B, BB[sub]. Page A1 shows all the posts in and under cat A while page B1 shows all the posts in and under cat B.

    Thought many heads would be better than one. Any more suggestions? If any of the above is good then any suggestions on how to implement them? Or any plugin which would help me do this, though I could not find any?

    Thanks a lot and warm regards,

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    #2 is doable in WP and you don’t need any plugin for it – just a lot of manual work. You can use Category_Templates to have a different look for all categories (if you want so).

    Thread Starter veena

    (@veena)

    moshu:

    Thank you for the suggestion. However, if I use the cetagory template, basically it would be a pain if I want to change the theme later on. Is there a generic way to do it without binding it to any theme or to core wordpress so that updates would not be problematic either?

    warm regards,

    Thread Starter veena

    (@veena)

    Another question, one which is extremely silly. How do i get links on posts to work? The link to my blog which I posted in the original post keeps coming back to wordpress. Anything am doing wrong?

    thanks a lot and warm regards,

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    Updates have nothing to do with themes. You should always keep your wp-content folder (where the themes and plugins are) untouched during an update.
    Cretaing a category template happens in the theme – no core file touched. If you don’t choose to have different category templates, then you can switch between themes.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    re “silly question” ==> basic HTML ??
    start it with “https://”

    Thread Starter veena

    (@veena)

    moshu:

    Am I right in my understanding then that I either have different categories or different themes but both would not be very possible?

    thanks and warm regards,

    Thread Starter veena

    (@veena)

    moshu:

    thanks for taking the trouele to answer that stupendously retarded question. My apologies for wasting your time ??

    warm regards,

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    Wrong. You can have different categories AND different themes. See my testblog: you can switch themes and all the categories are there.
    https://www.transycan.net/blogtest/
    But I don’t have special Category_Templates in any of these themes. (As a side note: I don’t think you’ve read the article I linked, so why are we wasting time on arguing about it? When a resource is provided, read it first before talking back)

    Thread Starter veena

    (@veena)

    moshu:

    I will look at the new link you posted and figure it out. In reply to your sidenote, I have read the previous link you posted. I had read it earlier while searching and re-read it when you posted to make sure am not missing something. However, obviously it seems as if am still missing something in there. Anyway, will look into it.

    thanks and warm regards,

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