Two wordpress one database 1 login for all users.

ah yah i can do that no problem only think i wouldn’t know how to do is the custom admin options page that themes come with ><

maybe someone can help me as i think my answer is in this thread but not sure which answer applies to me…

If I’m hearing you correctly, you want to use one theme for the majority of your site and one theme just for a section of the site for a video gallery.

no, one “theme” (literally) with a section that has a different post layout = different header and sidebar placement though all will use common images, users, etc. ( is there a way to have optional layouts for a post? i.e.,
option 1 ( default) = header 1, sidebar 1
option 2 = header 2, sidebar 2,3 ) note: different header meaning different nav menus.

i guess the range of options lies in between…?

1) ideally one domain, admin, users, theme AND two post layout options
2) two domains ( domain.com, domain-search.com ), admins, users, and ONE theme slipping seamlessly back and forth

a lot of good ideas here and i am not skilled enough to sort out what has just been said.

maybe someone can help me as i think my answer is in this thread but not sure which answer applies to me…

If I’m hearing you correctly, you want to use one theme for the majority of your site and one theme just for a section of the site for a video gallery.

no, one “theme” (literally) with a section that has a different post layout = different header and sidebar placement though all will use common images, users, etc. ( is there a way to have optional layouts for a post? i.e.,
option 1 ( default) = header 1, sidebar 1
option 2 = header 2, sidebar 2,3 ) note: different header meaning different nav menus.

i guess the range of options lies in between…?

1) ideally one domain, admin, users, theme AND two post layout options
2) two domains ( domain.com, domain-search.com ), admins, users, and ONE theme slipping seamlessly back and forth

a lot of good ideas here and i am not skilled enough to sort out what has just been said.

maybe someone can help me as i think my answer is in this thread but not sure which answer applies to me…

If I’m hearing you correctly, you want to use one theme for the majority of your site and one theme just for a section of the site for a video gallery.

no, one “theme” (literally) with a section that has a different post layout = different header and sidebar placement though all will use common images, users, etc. ( is there a way to have optional layouts for a post? i.e.,
option 1 ( default) = header 1, sidebar 1
option 2 = header 2, sidebar 2,3 ) note: different header meaning different nav menus.

i guess the range of options lies in between…?

1) ideally one domain, admin, users, theme AND two post layout options
2) two domains ( domain.com, domain-search.com ), admins, users, and ONE theme slipping seamlessly back and forth

a lot of good ideas here and i am not skilled enough to sort out what has just been said.

jberghem, there is a way around having two sites with two different users. it is through navigation menus. site #1 is the user site. site #2, hide all site #2 user links. configure site #2 menu to point to site #1 with user-related menu.

@ronchicago – Well to give you a proper answer, please tell me what it is you are trying to achieve? There are many different ways of doing things, so the question is not only does it work but also is it the simplest way to do it and the least taxing to the server.

The rage of options are virtually limitless. One needs to differentiate between the range of options that are technically possible (within or outside of WP) and the range of your personal knowledge of XHTML, CSS, PHP, Domain Server administration, etc.

In my article “2 Degrees of Separation” I explain why it is important to separate the content (XHTML) and the presentation (CSS). In WP you can use the hierarchic structure to create category templates in which you can not only customize the content but also give a completely different design by attaching a different CSS file to it. Of course you can style users differently and use use CSS to hide things. But it’s much simpler to have that XHTML you’re hiding not be generated there in the first place. Then you don’t have to hide it.
We’re still trying to get everyone to stop using (X)HTML for layout and styling purposes. But we shouldn’t go overboard and use CSS to control the content on the page. Each computer language is developed for a certain purpose. Sure it’s possible to do the same thing in different languages but one is the best one. I could get one of those big trucks to take my house with me on vacation, or I could just take an RV.

Please do read the complete thread before presenting a work-around. Your suggestion is completely unrelated to vurea’s problem I was replying to.

jberghem,

upon reading this thread again, and again, i see the difference in original vs my question. i have also read several VMB threads.

that said, i wish to have one site with two distinct sections/functions. one user registration.

the masthead will be the same for both but the nav menus a bit different, hence the need for a header1 & header 2? anyway that is what i have going at present.

Section one = e-zine, a blog in a magazine format where posts are stories, longer posts, with comments, forum, a sidebar 1.

Section two = item finder, where posts are shorter, possibly an excerpt, links to this and that, a sidebar 2.

the conflict = a) big difference in post content between section 1 & 2 and b) how to categorize, wishing same name but residing in different sections.

note: concept #1 = two categories with same name to keep visitor in the appropriate section. i thought the categories might have slightly different constructions – ” buttons ” & ” buttons> ” each with unique ID.

i currently have 60 categories, 6 parents with 10 children each, for example. which would double categories in concept #1

note: we are totally in agreement on how to use xhtml, css, etc.

i am not a programmmer. however, i can now modify this and that but cannot create this and that. i have access to a former student who is pretty good with php and css though does not code with wp in mind. strictly phpmyadmin and on the server, which keeps her solutions out of wp-admin. so that’s a problem in my mind at this early stage of development. maybe its not an issue.

bottom line, i don’t know the ” structure models ” options available. is it simply one blog with one database. two blogs with one db? two domains with one db seamlessly working together. note: only one domain to be bookmarked, seo target.

responding to otto’s comment. a little more elaboration for me is required…

Put them both in the same database with different prefixes. Then choose one of them to be the master user table.

what exactly is ” them ” ?

Hmm.. Yes I see now tricky situation.
Since you say that you’re not a hand-coder, we need to find a simple solution.

Let me first say you don’t need two headers, you just don’t put the menu in the header.php.

The problem is that you have so many (sub)categories. You see, sub categories don’t choose their parents template. So you’d end up with 50+ category templates.

You could maybe go for the multi-user WordPress. You create 2 sub blogs which you can style differently, and you still have administrative accounts that work for all sub blogs, i.e. 1 user account. You even have the option to give each of your sub-blogs it’s own sub-domain, i.e. blog1.yourdomain.com, blog2.yourdomain.com

I think that would be a far simpler solution for you than getting someone to code a custom theme for you with a plethora of custom template files to get it just the way you want it. It would be more manageable than two separate WP installs on the same server.