Hello again, Lyn,
If you want to run everything from one single WP installation, you could use categories and subcategories instead of pages to display your specific content in each of the “places.”
To do this, you would assign the categories “place 1” and “place 2” to all your site-specific content, and then add a second navigation menu in your site (or a dropdown category tab in your already existing nav menu) that would show a horizontal list of your categories. That way, when your visitors click on one of those categories, all the posts within that category would get displayed.
The basic code to add a horizontal category menu is:
<ul id="navmenu2" class="navmenu">
<?php wp_list_categories('title_li='); ?>
</ul>
You would have to place that code inside your the header.php file that shipped with your template.In this article, you have a fancier implementation of this same technique, but as a drop-down menu. If you want the second navmenu to have the same look and feel as your main nav menu, you need to assign to your cat menu the same “class” as your main nav:
<ul id="navmenu2" class="main_nav_class">
You would have to replace ‘main_nav_class’ with the name of the CSS class used to style your main nav.
If you don’t want to display ALL of your content (including the site-specific content) in your home and would like to have home-specific content displayed there, you could create another category (or set of categories), and then slightly modify your index.php (which is the file that controls your Home) so as to display the last X posts from that/those category/ies. Check out this thread to retrieve the code to do such a thing.
That should cover what you’re trying to accomplish. Hope it’s helpful.