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WP Question (9 posts)

Topic tags: Blog, categories, multiple, Timeline, Wordpress

Mark Oetjens said
1 year, 1 month ago:
I am currently writing a sequel to my 1st SF novel. To help bridge the gap between the two books I’m starting a news site that will provide the fictional news stories relevant to the overall story arc. That part’s no big deal.
I also plan to write another sequel and several prequels. My question is, how to separate the timelines in the “News” site? Will WP let you run multiple blogs (news timelines) on the same site/domain? I know I can separate them by category. But is there a way to set up the different categories as buttons on the landing page? I’m trying to make this as easy on the reader as possible.
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Mac said
1 year, 1 month ago:
Different blogs one one domain are easy. You nstall multiple copies of WP. After the dot com you have /blog1 /blog2 Or do blog.example.comm blog2.example.comm Or get a theme for Wordpress that does a news site Or come up with a new idea.Yepp, you can do that.
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Judith Gotwald said
1 year, 1 month ago:
Would it work to just add an image as a “button” with the image linked to a separate page created in your site? That should be easy. But I’m not sure I’m following your question exactly?
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Jules Webb said
1 year, 1 month ago:
@markoetjens You could always use another CMS besides WP. I build sites using Expression Engine where you would only need to install the software once. You would set up a channel for “book1″ and a separate channel for “book2″. This way you would be able to manage both streams of content within one interface.
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Kristi Hines said
1 year ago:
@markoetjens You can always create two categories and link to each of them from the homepage. With some custom programming of a WordPress theme, you could probably create a site that had one column with the latest posts from one category and another column with the latest posts from the other category.
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Amy Hall, Virtual Assistant for WordPress and MailChimp Help said
1 year ago:
@markoetjens Or you could do a WP multi site. That will give you multiple sites with only 1 install. You could brand them all the same or you could brand them differently. That way when you book series grows you will have enough websites/blogs to handle them.
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Diane Aull said
1 year ago:
What Kristi and Amy said.
A WP multi site would allow you to set up two separate blogs, if that works better for you. I don’t know if you could create a home page such as you describe within WP, with buttons for each of the blogs, but you could easily create a home page outside of WP that would lead off to each of the individual blogs.
Or you could do a little theme tweaking and get the effect you’re looking for within a single WP site, just using categories. It shouldn’t be too difficult for someone who’s familiar with custom themes.
WP is an incredibly versatile CMS.
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Jason Wiser said
1 year ago:
Yeah Mark, the simplest way is how Kristi mentions. Essentially you would have two links to 2 categories. And with some template markup you can relatively easily add two blog rolls. For example link #1 will send you to yoursite.com/category/Book1 and link #2 @markoetjens will send you to yoursite.com/category/Book2. @kristi-hines
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Mark Oetjens said
1 year ago:
@richardmclaughlin @judithgotwald @juleswebb @kristi-hines @amyhallbiz @dianeaull @jasonwiser Thanks for all the help and advice. I’ll look into everything and figure out what works best for me.
Mark
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