Multiple blog pages with photos and videos

If you are 200% sure you want multiple blogs… and not just different categories in the same blog – then WP is not really your tool. WP does NOT have multiple blogs feature.

You can install it 3 times in different folders – but I am not sure you really meant what you wrote: “a video blog on a separate page”.

And don’t worry about the design now. First figure out the structure of your content.

When she says “blog”, I think she’s meaning “post”….

Thanks for your help. Here’s what we’re doing. We have a main page where we’ll tell news and anecdotes about our family. My husband also takes video of the kids and so we want a separate page where he can post the videos like he does now on our current website (which we code by hand – yuk!). Then I need a separate page to post pictures I’m taking of the kids. (And I don’t want to use a separate site like flikr.) What we don’t want is for the posts for video, picture, and news to appear on the same page like posts of different categories do (right?). Does that help?

P.S. I have all the content – past videos and pictures from the previous site. I just need to know how to design the WP site to hold them.

For my simplistic mind this is a very easy question.
You set up 3 categories (or 4):
news (eventually, +1 = anecdotes)
video
photo

You make posts in the proper category – depending on your content.

Use a plugin:
https://ryowebsite.com/?p=46 <== catgeory visibility, to exclude cat video and photo from showing up on the main/home page.

The video and photo category (and the posts in them) will show up only on their own respective category archives (i.e. clicking on the cat name in the menu)… plus you have the possibility to have quite different looking layout/design – by using the Category Templates
https://codex/www.ads-software.com/Category_Templates

The rest is just playing with the CSS ??

Thanks, Moshu! I’m definitely a newbie and even your simplistic explanation was a bit over my head. Let me get this straight. So far we’ve deleted all reference to categories from the site and we’re using a top navigation bar to link to other pages.

I can set up the categories video and photo and have them not show up on the main page with the plug-in. Can I link directly (manually) to the category display page for Photos on our top navigation bar? Is the category display page the same as the category archive? Or can I make the categories and subcategories for Photos display in the sidebar only in the Photo Archive? How else could I display only the navigation for the photos in the photos section?

Thanks for the info about Category Templates!

Can I link directly (manually) to the category display page for Photos on our top navigation bar?
Sure. Depending on your permalink settings it will be something like
yoursite.com/?cat=X <– x=cat ID#
or
yoursite.com/category/video

Is the category display page the same as the category archive?
Yep. Sorry if I was confusing…

can I make the categories and subcategories for Photos display in the sidebar only in the Photo Archive?
Yes, using conditionl tags in your sidebar
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Conditional_Tags

Whew! Sounds like a lot of work! Thanks so much for your help! You weren’t confusing. I’m just so new to this. I’ll give it this try and get back to you when (not if!) I have more questions. Thanks!