Comments on: Two Wordpress blogs, one site

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.

By: Alfred Armstrong

Alfred Armstrong — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:17:15 +0000

Kathleen, I bet the problem’s in wp-config.php, which didn’t show up due to its content being filtered out. You’d need to run it through a converter to turn it safely into HTML entities (as I did with the code I posted). It’d be quicker if you simply emailed me the files, to alfred (at) likemind (dot) co (dot) uk.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:16:24 +0000

Thanks for responding and for the offer of help, Alfred.

At first I wanted to try this with an existing blog, where the WP installation is at the root level (well, it’s in the public_html folder, does that count?), so I tried to edit the .htaccess to point to the root, but I must have got that wrong as I got 404 errors.

So now I’ve started afresh with a new installation at another domain, for testing purposes, the original at http://kathleenbright.com/wordpress/, with the ‘portfolio’ one being http://kathleenbright.com/tvt/ However, both are showing the same blog – which is the wordpress one. I looked at the database and only wp_ tables have been created. So it looks like I’ve somehow got errors in my tvt .htaccess and/or my wordpress wp-config.php files Aagh!

Am close to giving up as I’m in way over my head and don’t want to be bugging you with numerous requests to help, especially when I’m so clueless. Would be great if it’s something small I’ve managed to miss by some n00b oversight…!

Thanks again,
Kx

- wordpress/wp-config.php

- tvt/.htaccess
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/tvt$
RewriteRule . /tvt/ [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/tvt/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/tvt/index.php$
RewriteRule ^(.+) /wordpress/$1