Moving WordPress to be the blog of a larger WP site?

  • My site is currently a mess. The domain is run on Joomla, the blog is WordPress, and a subdirectory is WordPress. I know it’s only a matter of time before it crashes…

    So I plan to combine all three into one WordPress site. I want to take the design from the subdirectory WP and apply it to the whole site. So I know that I have a lot of work to do moving the Joomla pages to WordPress and all… But also I don’t know how to transition the blog from its own entity to being a subdirectory of the main site?

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  • My first thought is that it might be easiest to keep them separate and put the three components in three separate subdomains pointing to three separate directories on the server.

    Thread Starter stephm

    (@stephm)

    I don’t understand… I’m trying to combine them all into one so I don’t have 6 databases to worry about

    Oh, you didn’t mention databases before. Three WordPress installations can use the same database if they have different table prefixes.

    If you only want one set of tables in the database, then you really do need to merge everything. You could use the existing blog as the new site, with a page called blog, and make that page the site’s posts page (in Settings – Reading, the “Posts page” setting). No one will ever see the actual page. To users it will look like the blog is in a subdirectory.

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