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What I want:

Two wordpress blogs with separate cats and tags

reggi.com/portfolio/category/example
reggi.com/blog/category/example
reggi.com/portfolio/tags/example
reggi.com/blog/tags/example

Site root to not be wordpress or to be a static page with custom template

reggi.com/ <-- NOT wordpress
reggi.com/portfolio <-- wordpress
reggi.com/blog <-- wordpress

One theme directory

What I have tried so far:

I have installed one wordpress theme in the root reggi.com and had a plugin which removed category from reggi.com/category/portfolio. This worked but my permalink structure was really sluggish as for each post was queried first with %category%. I also ran into problems with the tags where it was skipping over the category in the url and displaying something like reggi.com/tags/example rather than reggi.com/portfolio/tags/example.

I have installed multisite but I am running into problems where I need to display different indexes for /portfolio and /blog I am thinking my only option would be to have the template index look at the url and if it is /blog or /portfolio display the respective themes accordingly. Is this wise? I don't know how to setup /blog with multisite post here.

Are there any other ways to go about this? Something I'm missing? Should I just have two separate wordpress installs?

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  • Why are you not using WP for your main site as well?
    – Steven
    May 15, 2011 at 18:22
  • The homepage is going to be a static page but not involve any wordpress functionality. I am making the homepage a "activity" page which will aggregate all of my internet traffic like twitter, delicious, and dailybooth etc.
    – ThomasReggi
    May 15, 2011 at 18:26

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Create two custom post types, one for each blog. Then you can add custom taxonomies to each one of them.

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Then I suggest you use WP for you main site as well.

Just create a custom template like this:

<?php
/* Template Name: Start page */

  // Here you add custom PHP code.
  // It does not have to contain a single WP code
?>

Then you just use create two more pages and call them portfolio and blog.
In these pages you only list posts with specific categories.

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  • This is exactly what I did in my first (non-multisite) attempt. The problem with this is that I need to have the tag queries seporated with different displays ie. example.com/blog/tags/example looks different from example.com/portfolio/tags/example I'm thinking that I use get_tags() and stick /portfolio or /blog respectively into the string. But I would then need to pull the url and parse it in index template file. Is this really the best way?
    – ThomasReggi
    May 15, 2011 at 18:57
  • But is this really 3 different sites? Or is it just a main site with different sections? Because I don't think it will matter to much for the user of the tags become example.com/tags/sometag. I'm no experte, but what if you drop tags and use custom made category trees and then check what category tree it is, and based on that, aither re-route or change look and feel? I think I'm still not quite sure what you are trying to achieve here :)
    – Steven
    May 16, 2011 at 7:37

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