How to: 2 WP sites in one

  • Resolved kims126

    (@kims126)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m hoping someone might be able to help me with this. My client wants to have a landing page or splash page as the Home page with 2 links (or buttons) that lead to 2 different “sites”. Basically the pages to both sites will be be duplicate with minor differences. I know I can use WP as a CMS and set a home page to be a static page. The initial splash home page can be a simple HTML page with 2 links going to the t sets of pages. My question is how do I configure WP do do this? Is this even possible?

    Any advice is much appreciated. Thanks,

    Kim

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  • Create a Page with the two links in the body of the page.

    Then in the Administration > Settings > Reading, set that Page to be the static front page.

    Not sure if you are asking about the 2 different “sites”, but consider using Categories and Category Templates then for the two links in the Page above, just put the links to each of the appropriate categories.

    Related:
    WordPress Semantics
    Stepping Into Template Tags
    Stepping Into Templates
    Template Hierarchy

    Thread Starter kims126

    (@kims126)

    Thanks. I didn’t really explain the 2 “sites” I’m referring to very well. Basically, from the home page (which is really a splash page with 2 links) a user can select which direction to go based on whether they are an “individual investor” or “institutional investor”. These 2 sides of the site will be identical, except for a few changes. So there from the Home Splash page, they can go to the “Individual Home” or “institutional Home” and from there navigate to other pages (About, Contact, etc). Does this make sense?

    Is this something that can be managed using Categories and Category Templates as explained by MichaelH?

    You could manage with Categories or just use two additional Pages called “Individual investors” or “Institutional investors”.

    Setup a test blog and see how it works.

    Thread Starter kims126

    (@kims126)

    I set up a test site on a local server and have been trying to organize the pages the way I want. I’ve found all kinds of info on organizing Posts but none on organizing Pages. This link is what I’m trying to achieve. I just want to know if this is possible to do in WordPress and if so, how?

    Just a series of pages

    1. Static Page and set via Settings->Reading

    2. Investor Page
    2a. QFA Quash (parent page Investor Page)
    2a. Strategy (parent page Investor Page)
    etc

    3. Institutional Main Page
    3a. About Us (parent page Institutional Main Page)
    etc.

    Thread Starter kims126

    (@kims126)

    Ok, thanks. How do I get the correct navigation for each “home” page? On the test I ran, all the navigation showed up on all the pages.

    Please provide a link to see the issue, and a link to download the theme you are using.

    Thread Starter kims126

    (@kims126)

    I don’t have a link. I’m running the test on my local server using MAMP. The theme I’m using is just the basic default theme.

    How do I get the correct navigation for each “home” page?

    If you are saying you only want the child pages related to investors when viewing investor or investor child pages, then review the examples in the template tag, wp_list_pages() article.

    Thread Starter kims126

    (@kims126)

    Thanks. I’ll check out the links.

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