Blog & Portfolio setup

Question

Like so many others on the web, I've been trying to get a blog and a portfolio to play nicely together within the same website. Here is what I would like the urls to look like and some things that I have tried.

Desired Permalink Structure:

reggi.com/portfolio
reggi.com/portfolio/$post_year/$post_title
reggi.com/portfolio/category/$category
reggi.com/portfolio/tag/$tag
reggi.com/blog
reggi.com/blog/$post_id/$post_title
reggi.com/blog/category/$category
reggi.com/blog/tag/$tag

Here are some things i've tried:

• Two wordpress installs

Cons: Very large (doup of wp core files), multiple logins, separate themes

• Two wordpress installs using symbolic links on wp core files (to minimize size)

Cons: multiple logins, separate themes

• Wordpress multisite

Cons: force root, can't use blog,

• One wordpress with /%category%/ in permalink

Cons: slow, categories & tags leave out blog & portfolio in permalink (ex reggi.com/cat/$category)

Question:

Is there something that i've missed is there any other way to have two blogs on one site?

Answer 1

You can set up your blog & portfolio with one WordPress installation only.

Fist check this codex article: http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

for portfolio it would be best if you'll create Custom Post Type, then all you portfolio stuff will have permalinks like example.com/portfolio/some-great-project, but post permalinks would be the same - example.com/2011/07/14/hello-world/, maybe with some WP Rewrite you can improve this too

Answer 2

Mamaduka is on the right path! You will need only one WP installation with the following:

• Custom Home Page
• Custom portfolio post type: custom post types generate their own archive pages, which you can template!
• Custom portfolio taxonomy

Answer 3

1. Create a page that will be your static home page - use any name - and publish.

2. Name the second page blog - don't add any content and publish.

3. Go to Administration > Settings > Reading

   • Set 'Front page displays:' to 'a static page' and choose the first page.
   • Set 'Post Page' to the blog page.

4. Create a custom taxonomy for your portfolio custom post type - ensure the following option values - and ensure it's registered before the portfolio custom post type is registered, so that the slug portfolio/language will be checked for first, before the portfolio slug.

     'has_archive'           => true,
     'rewrite'               => array( 'slug' => 'portfolio/language', 'with_front' => false ),
     'query_var'             => true,
     'public'                => true,

1. (read as 5, the pre block messed up the ordered list) Create a custom post type for your portfolio items - ensure the following option values, and that it is registered after the custom taxonomy was registered.

     'has_archive'           => true,
     'rewrite'               => array( 'slug' => 'portfolio', 'with_front' => false ),
     'query_var'             => true,
     'public'                => true,
     'taxonomies'            => array('category' , 'post_tag', 'languages')