more than one blog
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Hello, my wordpress blog is quickly growing unwieldy with many pages and posts in 3 different areas. I am considering hosting three different blogs for each aspect of my blogging. I’ve read a bit about it on support and via forums, but I’m needing more information about the pros and cons of such a separation.
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They say your first thought is what you should go with.
I know it,s easy to get off course.
Here,s an idea look at the number of comments per subject.
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Without understanding your priorities we can’t really answer. Why don’t you just set up the other blogs and try it for a week or so?
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thanks for the question about my priorities and for your time and consideration with a relative amateur at using a web blog:
for starters the blog was a “sandbox”– another place for me to “play” with writing and invited audience; over time it became a place to send others to find out about my roles as a yogadance teacher and life coach, as well as to read my writing on different topics; my goal now is two fold–that it continue to be a place i can play at writing/audience– and that it be increasingly friendly to audience. Given that having more than one blog will be tricky in terms of new urls, are there any other options for re-organizing the blog to make it more streamlined? Right now, the pages list is very, very long. -
Oh dear, you are hooped. Pages not good for navigation (for reasons you’ve realized) and you would have been much better off just making all of these separate blogs in the beginning, OR blog posts with different categories. Unfortunately, there isn’t an easy way to convert them as far as I know; it’s all copy/paste.
One other thing to think about is, it’s very difficult to move a bunch of readers off one blog and onto a new one. They will persist in going to your old blog.
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Thank you raincoaster–even if you are the bearer of not so good news. I may move some of the pages to posts then–copy/paste as you say.What are pages good for then?
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thanks for the support link which i’ve now reread… and yet, i am still confused about how to create what i want– perhaps my needs have outgrown of the blog format?
Given the challenges I have described above– an unwielding blog–is there a link for further exploring a more complex use of the blog? or a remedial link for someone who isn’t “getting it” if that’s the case? -
a follow up question that occurs now around pages is this– if pages are good for basic facts about a topic–then how would one group all writing on that topic– i assumed sub pages–which is what i did–but would categorized posts have worked better to enable readers to find what they want?
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Categorized posts are always going to be better because they will have more search engine “juice” than pages do. Also, with posts, wordpress automatically “pings” all the major search engines automatically whenever you publish a new one, but with pages they do not. You either have to manually ping using a service such as pingomatic, or you have to just wait until the search engines stumble upon the new page.
Categories are a very powerful way of organizing information (posts) and ensuring that they can easily be found on the search engines.
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Yes. Categories would be much better than separate pages and sub-pages. Note that you cannot use categories on pages.
But if you convert most of your sub-pages to posts, you could then use categories. You said you have 3 main areas (and perhaps a 4th that would be “miscellaneous”) so each area would be a category you’d assign to your posts. (It’s not hard to make the conversion: it’s just tedious copy, paste, and add category.)
You could then use a category widget so your readers could choose which topic they are interested in.
http://support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/
http://support.wordpress.com/posts/post-categories/Or you could make a static front page and put links to the 3 main categories on it. Readers would come to that page first and choose which topic to read.
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have to give a bigger thank you for all the effort!
here’s what i posted on fb:
sign of hope– I always have a warm fuzzy feeling after the volunteer members at Word Press help me out of a jam–even when it takes a handful of them! -
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