Organizing content

  • Unknown's avatar
    disperser · Member ·

    I’m looking to redo my single blog into a main blog that links to other blogs.

    Basically I want a blog for my photography, one for my fiction writing, one for my opinion and editorials, and a main blog serving as gateway.

    Questions:
    Is this possible?
    Is there a clear tutorial on how to set this up?

    More important questions:
    Can I move or copy my current blog post into the newly formed blogs, or do I have to recreate each one?

    Any help you can offer would be much appreciated since I’ve not been able to find clear answers to these questions.

    Peripheral question:
    Ideally I could do it all in the current blog if I could have different pages with posts grouped under them. So far I don’t see how to create a page to which I can do multiple postings. Is there such an animal?

    Above all, if you have a better suggestion for organizing and separating my content, I would appreciate it greatly. Why, I would name any future offspring after you.

    (note: promise of offspring naming is a ruse . . . I’m nearly 60, and no way do I plan to have kids)
    Blog url: http://disperser.wordpress.com/

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  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    That is sort of possible. In both scenarios below, I recommend setting up a static front page: http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/

    1. The easiest and most integrated way would be to set that static front page, then blog into specific categories for photography, fiction, opinion, etc. Each category will have its own archive page, like http://disperser.wordpress.com/category/photography-stuff/ which you can highlight in the menu as you have already done.

    2. A bit more complicated, but also more separated, you could just register a new blog for each subject. To do that, just visit https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/ while logged in.

    So far I don’t see how to create a page to which I can do multiple postings.

    Pages are a form of content, like posts, so they can’t actually contain posts, hence the problem. In this case, the category archive pages are really the only way to go.

  • Unknown's avatar
    disperser · Member ·

    Thanks for the answer but . . .

    I’m already doing scenario 1, except I don’t like the static page idea.

    Option 2 is what I asked about: “I’m looking to redo my single blog into a main blog that links to other blogs”

    However the questions remain –

    I) I envision the menu bar of each blog showing a link to the other blogs. I presume this is possible since I’ve seen it in other blogs. Is there a tutorial on it?

    II) can I move or copy posts from my current blog to my new blogs (organize the posts into separate blogs), or do I need to recreate all of them?

    This last question is the important one. I would like to leave all the photography related stuff on my current blog, and move all the writing (fiction and editorials) into other blogs. If I can’t “move” can I copy a blog post to the new one? I would then erase it from the current blog.

    Any ideas?

  • bryanvillarin · Staff ·

    I envision the menu bar of each blog showing a link to the other blogs. I presume this is possible since I’ve seen it in other blogs. Is there a tutorial on it?

    Yes. If the theme supports custom menus in the navigation area, you can add custom (external) links, such as separate blogs.

    can I move or copy posts from my current blog to my new blogs (organize the posts into separate blogs)

    Yep!

    1. You can go to Tools -> Export, then under “Choose what to export”, select Posts, select a specific category in the Categories drop down, then click Download Export File.

    2. Once you get the category–specific WXR file, you can import the content into the new blog.

    3. Next, I’d check that any images attached to the imported post are imported into the Media Library, and refer to the new blog address.

    4. Lastly, so search engines don’t ding you for having duplicate content, you can go back to the blog dashboard (where the post was originally published), then use Bulk Edit on the Posts -> All Posts screen to change the status of the posts within each specific category as Drafts*.

    * I highly suggest this before deleting the posts in case there were any issues importing the posts to your other blogs. After verifying in step three that the images are referenced in the new blog’s Media Library, you can feel free to delete the original posts.

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