Kaushik

yes @skinewzealand that’s a good idea.
but @pcarrell said he wants “an altogether separate blog”, so…

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If you ‘erased’ the /articles directory via FTP then I hope the database is still there. You can restore the site if you haven’t deleted the database. However, you may have lost the post images if don’t have a backup of the images directory.

Yes @pcarrell off course you can do that. In the home directory, create a landing page which will tell visitors that you have 2 blogs and link to them. Create 2 subdirectories, install wordpress on them and make your blogs on poetry & fiction.

Login with FTP, go to your public_html or htdocs folder (whichever you have), right click and make new directory; one will be “poetry” another will be “fiction” (or whatever you want to name them). Then upload wordpress, setup and run blogs.

If you’re using auto installer scripts, there will be a place for sub directory, mention them while installing.

This maybe happening due to your blog theme. Can you please revert back to default Twenty Ten theme and recheck whether the error solves or not?

The same thing happened to me, when I change to default theme, RSS feed works as it should, no errors.