More than one blog in the same blog
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As of now, one is able to create one “blog” and multiple “pages”. We should be able to create multiple “blogs” and multiple “pages. It frustrates me no end that this is not possible. Or is it?
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To kuntla: You should go to your profile and set your blog’s URL. That way people can see your blog just by clicking on your username here.
To anyone: I have a similar desire to have multiple “types” of blogs within the same blog. Since I wanted to control the presentation order of my posts, I chose to adopt the “book” suggestion for my blog where I use separate pages as “arenas” which contain a list of links to posts that fall within that arena. And because my posts are rather long, I chose to limit the number of posts per blog page to 1. This has worked fine until now, when I’d like to add an “arena” page where my posts are much shorter.
It would be nice if pages acted like limited blogs where each can be assigned a separate posts per page # and articles can be posted directly to a specific page without the need for creating lists of links.
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Follow up: It occurs to me that if I could post directly to a specific page, then I could simply use the “click for more” approach to deal with long articles and wouldn’t care about the posts per page thing.
P.S. Tell me if this is the wrong forum for such suggestions, and where it should go if it is.
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This simply isn’t possible at wordpress.COM and even with a self-hosted blog, it is more than a little work and requires a good working knowledge of PHP script so that you can build and modify the theme files. And if you change themes, well then you have to go through the same thing all over again.
One solution is to set up multiple blogs and then link to that blog from the main blog. That way you can if you wish even have different themes on each blog.
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It is possible. It is called WordPress-MU. Of course, I don’t think its possible on wordpress.com and that is seriously a shame.
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Sorry. I am confused now. With MU, I can have http://www.myblogdomain.com/blogs/blog1, blog2, blog3… blogn or kuntala.wordpress.com/blog1, blog2, blog3… blogn. Correct? Can I do that on wordpress.com? Also why does the MU dashboard (installed on my local box) look different from the wordpress.com dashboard.
Basically, what I’m trying/want to do is this:
Using your own blog as an example – you have Home, About Me, Archives, Contact etc., at the top. Out of these, “Home” is a blog and the rest are “Pages”. Correct? Now I want a “Home-2”, “Home-3″… “Home-n” in that list. Is it possible?
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I posted this in response to a similar question several days ago. It may be helpful:
The software here won’t let you use one blog as an umbrella for other blogs. Blog Pages can’t function as junior blogs. Put another way, a Page can’t be a blog inside another blog. In computer-speak, a Page isn’t analogous to a sub-directory.
As others will explain, you can use Categories to organize your posts. You can also use Pages for hand-assembled links to subject-related posts at your blog; and you can do the same thing with text widgets. Give your readers several ways to navigate around. Online newspapers, with all their diverse topics, manage to function this way.
If none of that is satisfactory, Pages can be used for links to your other blogs, and those can link back — but that really shouldn’t be necessary. Visit the sites of some of the big magazines online. See how they do it with a single site. If they can do it, so can we.
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It’s not possible here – you can have your own domain name with blog.helloimanalien.com but you can’t bonjour.com/blog/blog-from-me/ you will need to go to the updates tab on your dashboard and settings screen and add the subdomain!
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Thanks sensuous, that is a good explanation.
@kuntala, Here at wordpress.COM you can have blog1.wordress.com, blog2.wordpress.com, blog3.wordpress.com… blog 22847.wordpress.com, but they are NOT all part of the same blog and you CANNOT move posts back and forth between them except by copy, paste and then delete, because there is NO connection between the blogs. They are three separate and distinct blogs with no link whatsoever to each other. In the tabs at the top of the page, with SOME themes here, you can use a “TRICK” to add a to link to the URL for blog 2 and blog 3 to the tabs on blog 1 (or the other way around) but I could also assign the tab for blog 2 to a typepad blog or a blogger blog, or to President Barack Obama’s blog. That would not mean that Barack Obama’s blog was connected to my blog, or that I could add things to his blog.
If you set up MU, and do the same thing, they are again, three SEPARATE AND DISTINCT blogs with no real connection to each other whatsoever and again, the only way you can move things between them is by copy, paste, and delete. There is only an APPARENT connection created by the existence of the other blogs in the tabs.
With either your own installation of MU on a web host, or here at wordpress.COM, you cannot create a post in the dashboard of blog1, and then click some magic button and have it appear in blog2. You have to copy and paste it from the editor in blog1 into the editor of blog 2. If you then change your mind and want it in blog3, you have to copy it out of the editor for blog2 and then paste it into the editor of blog3. If you then change your mind and want it back in blog1, you have to copy it out of the editor in blog3 and paste it back into the editor on blog1.
There is no TRUE connection, only an APPARENT connection.
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Apologize for belaboring this a bit. But I never said I want to move my posts between my different blogs. On the contrary, I <i>don’t</i> want to move them or even mix them up. Imagine that I am an expert in Chalk and Cheese. Or Bioinformatics and Bullfighting. Now I want to blog about both subjects on my blog. However, since the two subjects are different as Chalk and Cheese, I don’t want to use ‘Categories’. I want them to stand wider apart. I want them to be different blogs. Like allthingsd.com! Swisher and Walt would be BioInformatics and Bullfighting.
Basically, I want something like allthingsd. More than one blog; all sharing same/similar theme/look and feel. And each one independent of the other. Each one its own blog. Any pointers?
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Then sign up for more blogs under the same account and use the same theme, but the title you put on this thread was “More than one blog in the same blog.” That can’t be done.
You can however have as many individual blogs on one account as you wish. Each will be separate with no connection to the others with the exception of being all on the same account.
Or if you don’t want the identities of the blogs connected, sign up for additional separate accounts with a blog on each. That way you can have separate “author” names for each blog (each account will require a separate email address). You will then sign into blog 1, add the stuff you want, then if you want to put something on blog 2, you sign out of blog 1, sign into blog 2 and do your stuff, and so on.
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By the way, allthingsd is a wordpress.ORG blog. See the sticky post at the top of the forums for the differences between wordpress.COM and wordpress.ORG. The only limits on a wordpress.ORG blog are the limits of your imagination, the depth of your wallet and/or your programming abilities and the amount of time you have. The theme and such they are using is not an “off the shelf” theme, it is custom and from the looks of things has a huge amount of custom javascript programming in it from the number of .js calls.
And by the way, I’ll bet you anything they are using categories to organize the stuff for the individual subdomains. It is just that you do not see it because they have redirected it to a subdomain.
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Ismyblogworking reports that allthingsd is a wordpress.COM blog which means it is part of the VIP program, which requires about 100,000 + hits per day, hundreds of dollars in set up fee, and about $600 per month. What you have at that point is a blank blog with the default theme like you would here with a standard free blog.
You then have to do all the programming and customization, or have someone do it for you.
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@ kuntala, let me offer a solution to you that I touched on earlier. It is the only solution that is going to work here at wordpress.COM unless you have big bucks and the qualify for the VIP program.
I assume that you have your main blog that you want to work out of.
1a. If you want the same identity for the different blogs (author name) go to http://wordpress.com/ while logged in, and use the “register another blog” link to create the other blogs. The benefit to this arrangement is you only need one login to get to all the different blogs.
1b. If you do NOT want the same identity for the different blogs then log out of wordpress, go to http://wordpress.com/ and create new accounts and blog names for the other blogs you want. You will need unique email addresses for these new accounts. The downside to this is that you will have separate logins for each blog.
2. Go ahead and set up the additional blogs with the themes you want and such. Do note that when choosing themes for the blogs, you will want to use themes that will accept a hyperlink in the top navigation tabs. See this blog post for the ones that will work with hyperlinks: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/page-tabs-as-external-links/
3. When you have everything ready to go, follow the instructions in the link referenced in #2 above to create the hyperlink tabs in the navigation on each blog to get back and forth between all of them.
This isn’t as seamless and slick as allthingsd, but it will do the same basic job for you and it is free.
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