Two blogs on one site

  • Well I’m about to start development on a new site and am figuring out how I’m going to make this work.

    I want to have two types of posts on my site. So for example…
    site.com/blog – regular blog posts
    site.com/portfolio – custom entries of portfolio projects listed in a blog-like format

    Each section will have its own formatting. But then on the homepage (site.com) I’d like to have snippets from recent blog entries and recent portfolio entries.

    So what’s the best way to accomplish this?

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  • Thread Starter calrockx

    (@calrockx)

    I looked at WordPress Mu…but am not sure if that’s overkill or not

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    You could either have two separate WordPress installs, or MU. And … MU may be your best bet with this setup.

    WPMU can definitely do it but you could also use WP and set up blog and portfolio categories and just create category templates for each in order to tweak the presentation or layout of each category if that’s what you’re going for. So for the home page you can call latest posts in each category in different sections.

    Thread Starter calrockx

    (@calrockx)

    Hmm…I suppose that’s possible with categories, but I was hoping to have each blog function without compromise…so that kinda kills using entry categories for each blog.

    I don’t mind doing two separate installs, but If I do that can I still call in the latest posts from each section to a single homepage?

    I don’t mind doing two separate installs, but If I do that can I still call in the latest posts from each section to a single homepage

    Sure you can. One of many alternative ways to set that up in single WP is set up a widgetized section on the homepage of one of the two installs you want to make as main site and add the RSS feed widget of the 2nd blog in your main site. If you are going to the two blogs install route, you might to merge user tables so that you only have to log in once to access the two blogs – see Otto’s instruction in this forum thread.

    Thread Starter calrockx

    (@calrockx)

    Hmm..I suppose RSS feeds is one way to get the second blog’s recent posts on the home page, but that’s kinda limited.

    I want something were I have a full arsenal of template tags to post whatever recent blurbs/photos to the front home page.And I want each blog to have a free range of categories/tags as an independent blog.

    Guess I better start looking into MU some more, even if it is only two blogs…

    Have you checked out the Codex on Installing Multiple Blogs? While I have only used WPMU at the onset, Dgold has been using Virtual Multiblogs plugin in one WordPress install per this thread and it has worked well for him.

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