Multiple blogs or categories and sub-categories?

  • Resolved msadventures

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    16 years, 5 months ago

    Hi all. I’m contemplating some changes to my site and right now I’m really liking what’s going on at https://thepioneerwoman.com, for example. My question is how would I set up something like that? It appears that pioneerwoman.com is running multiple blogs on the site, one for each main topic – Confessions, Cooking, Photography, Home and Garden, etc. Is that the easiest way to do something like that, or can something similar be achieved by using categories and sub-categories? If I were to set up multiple blogs for different topics, would each blog require its own sql database?

    Thanks for your thoughts.
    Michelle

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  • You can put several blogs on one database, you just need to change the table name in the wp-configure file.
    I have five different blogs on my site.

    I’d go the category route – check Category_Templates for some notes on how your theme could give different categories variety.

    As to your multiple blogs question: Each blog needs its own set of tables. They can co-exist in one database or each can have its own. If in the same database, each install must have a different prefix configured in wp-config.php. Check Installing_Multiple_Blogs for more on that.

    Thread Starter msadventures

    (@msadventures)

    Thanks for the input, I’ll check those out. ??

    Hey.. Have a question on categories..

    How to add a feature like this one.. Can some one pls help me out ?

    How to customize page for individual user after they login ? say user A need to know about one set of categories and user B wants other set of categories. So how to provide such an option ? like when user A logs in, he should see his set of categories and when user B logs in he should see his set of categories ?

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