Merge two blogs under one website

Since it’s on the same domain, you could do this: On the main site/blog, create a page then edit the permalinks to match your other blogs. So then the page would link to https://www.soggycornflakes.com/bollywood and https://www.soggycornflakes.com/celebrities. You can even leave the pages empty.

I would suggest that you really only need one blog there – with two main categories which appear as a menu…. especially given that both your blogs are using the same theme, and look substantially similar.

Yeah, arseblog is definitely not using two installations on one page. Its nav bar links to two separate installations, that’s all. So you could simply create a navbar that links to your /bollywood and your /celebrities blogs. (And for each of those blogs, you’ll want to use the exact same theme).

Looks like you already have what you’re asking for? The soggycornflakes homepage appears to link to your 2 different blogs…

If you wanted to make a header with buttons more like arseblog, you could do that on your homepage and point the links anywhere.

Or, starting over, you could install 1 WP on soggycornflakes (top level domain) and have categories of /bollywood and /celebrities

Then you could make Custom Category Templates (like category-bollywood.php and category-celebs.php but actually just read the Codex for exactly how to do this). This way you can make each category have a custom look.

I am trying to do the same thing — on one website, have multiple blogs. Different main writers, different set of topics, same basic theme but with a slight variations — maybe just a logo different on each blog, that’s all.

So I’m trying to figure out the difference between having one blog on your website with multiple categories, each representing a different blog, versus having multiple blogs on your website created by multiple installations of WordPress.

My question: If I have one blog with multiple Categories — say Music by Bill, Sports by Sharon, Politics by Tom, etc — if Bill creates a new post, I want it to go to the top of his main Category page, and on that page it will have a logo of Music. If Sharon creates a new post on Sports, I want it to go to the top of her main Sports blog page, so that readers of her blog will not even see Bill’s music post or politics posts by Tom. They’ll think they are in a completely different blog.

It seems I can do this by installing three versions of WordPress, with three databases, and have three different homepages. But I’d rather not have three installations and three databases on my site. Would love to do it with categories and one installation.

LouV – you will want to review Category Templates, Stepping Into Templates, Stepping Into Template Tags, and Template Hierarchy, to acquaint yourself with how using multiple Categories might address your needs.

On the Italy guide Dolcevita.no, instead of one “blog” in sense of one postable page, I’ve set up about 30. When I make a new post to eg Toscana, it shows up on the top of the Toscana category page – just by selecting the Toscana category. The Toscana pages have their own sidebar etc – but all pages have the same header. Apart from the header, I guess this is what you’re asking for?
More about it here.
You should read about the Category templates and also have a look at some brilliant plugins: Page links to – Category posts widget – Daiko’s text widget and Widget Logic.
For me, the most important was to make Pages (to make new navigation items) and then link these directly to category overview pages (using Page links to). Then, on each category’s page I could make category specific sidebars using Widget Logic in combination with Category posts and Daiko’s.
I also needed to make one category template for each category, but just one sidebar file.
You might have to make three different header files, – but that’s not too complicated.
@ tia: You could do much the same using two main categories – each with it’s own template.
It took a lot of time for me (and the plugins’ authors!) to make all work for me, so I hope this can get you on the way.
Tell us how it goes!
Kjetil
PS
Dolcevita.no really consists of three WP installations, but all but /blogg and /cucina is within the main installation.

Hi, I looked though the references above but couldn’t find the solution for my problem (maybe I overlooked it).

I’m currently developing a site for so called ‘get paid to surveys‘ on a self installed WP blog.

I need a static page that never changes. Currently the blog posts would appear on the front page but they shall move to another page. I figured out that I can do this under “settings -> reading -> Front page displays”.

But I need a 2nd blog page and eventually a 3rd later on, where I can put reviews of the different paid survey offers. So I want to end up with two different posting pages (NOT categories). I want the normal blog posts only to appear on the standard blog page while the reviews shall ONLY appear on the review page.
It also would be nice, if I could set up different categories for each page.

I read that this should be possible but I couldn’t find the resources yet. Does anybody know how to do this?