Comments on: Two WordPress blogs, one site

By: Chad

Chad — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 03:00:04 +0000

I was trying to make my main blog page look different then a category blog page and with different content. Virtually I wanted two blogs on one wordpress site. This plugin helped me get the job done. I would recommend three plugins that helped me to get the job done: Advanced Category Excluder, Widget Logic, and Redirection. It was a matter of being able to exclude certain posts from our main blog page (Advanced Category Excluder) then being able to exclude sidebar menu widgets from certain categories (Widget Logic). The Redirection plugin allowed to direct the blogs category link that is part of our theme back to the main blog page.

I hope these plugins will help someone else out. If you are curious about what it looks like then check out http://www.creeksidebiblechurch.org/sermons (this is a category page) and http://www.creeksidebiblechurch.org/blog (this is our main blog page).

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By: Natalie

Natalie — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:07:18 +0000

Jules, I’m not sure if I understand exactly what you’re wanting to do, but in WordPress, I’ve put an RSS widget into my side bar, and filled it in with the feed URL from another site of mine. This way, every time I update Site A blog, it shows up in the side bar of Site B. I’m not sure if it will allow for partial view, but hope this helps.

By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:16:29 +0000

Jules, thanks for your comment. I don’t use this approach any more, preferring to use categories to separate the different blogs. This blog, my portfolio and the articles section of this site are all really a single blog with three categories of content.

I find this to be a much more flexible solution.

By: Jules

Jules — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:54:28 +0000

Awesome, Alfred! Thanks a lot for sharing this!

Here’s a question, though: how would I include the_excerpt of my second blog into the sidebar of the first one? I mean – sure this is possible with a few lines of proper php, but I was wondering if there is a way to use the comfy WordPress shortcuts. The way I see it, I would have to tell the_excerpt where to look in this special case without screwing up search results or archives overwiews in the first blog… Tricky? Or doable? I have no clue where to start.

Thanks again!

Jules

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By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:31:53 +0000

Awk, without seeing the content of your .htaccess files I really can’t say what’s happening.

By: Awk

Awk — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:01:44 +0000

I have istalled wordpress twice to 2 of its own folders (for 2 seperate blogs)in public html folder, the 1st blog worked well with permalink code being edited in the htaccess file fine, now I have added my second install for my second blog I can’t get pretty permalinks to work etc. My htacces file resides at root of my public html foder but outside both of my blog installs. Like I said all works fine on the first blog, but not on the 2nd once its installed. Is there some code I need to put in the htaccess file or similar please.

Thanks
Awk

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:12:43 +0000

This is a great bit of code, great explanation and it works like a charm. Thanks!

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:55:57 +0000

Thank you so much; I’ll email it you now.