Title: Multiple WordPress blogs
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multiple WordPress blogs

 *  [David Beck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davbeck/)
 * (@davbeck)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-blogs-1/)
 * How would you go about having multiple wordpress blogs **on the same site**? 
   I don’t want separate sites. I mean in the list of pages there would be an item
   names something like “Harvey’s blog” and another called “John’s blog”. I can 
   use the Page Links To plugin to link to the authors pages but then category links
   show both authors and next/previous links mix in both.

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 *  [jceresini](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jceresini/)
 * (@jceresini)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-blogs-1/#post-1220541)
 * You could install WordPress MU ([http://mu.wordpress.org/](http://mu.wordpress.org/)).
   This would allow you to setup blogs using subdomains, but all on the same domain.
   Ex:
 * blog1.domain.com
    blog2.domain.com etc.
 * Another option is to install them in different subdirectories such as
 * [http://www.domain.com/blog1](http://www.domain.com/blog1)
    [http://www.domain.com/blog2](http://www.domain.com/blog2)
   etc.
 *  Thread Starter [David Beck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davbeck/)
 * (@davbeck)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-blogs-1/#post-1220720)
 * But wouldn’t both those options create a second site with separate pages? The
   point is to have a single site that simply has two separate blog pages.
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-blogs-1/#post-1220730)
 * You can either have two seperate blogs, one for Harvey and one for John or they
   can share one blog.
 * If you share one blog then the category and tags will be shared too. Since it
   sounds like you want them to be separate (maybe, I’m unclear what you want to
   accomplish).
 * Different authors can be referenced via BLOG-URL/author/harvey/ and BLOG-URL/
   author/john/. The top level BLOG-URL will show both authors posts.
 * If they have separate blogs then their will be two URLs, two sets of database
   tables, etc. one for each site.
 *  Thread Starter [David Beck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davbeck/)
 * (@davbeck)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-blogs-1/#post-1220736)
 * What I am going for is the same pages and theme but separate categories and what
   not.
 *  [faisalmalik1989](https://wordpress.org/support/users/faisalmalik1989/)
 * (@faisalmalik1989)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-blogs-1/#post-1220755)
 * so you want separate categories and separated post author?
 * So far I know, I don’t think you can do it in one installation. What you can 
   do is do multiple installation and blend them using same theme.
 * The same when using MU version of wordpress with same theme for every each blog…
 *  [garycr5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garycr5/)
 * (@garycr5)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-blogs-1/#post-1220847)
 * Although I haven’t been able to figure out exactly how to implement this on my
   own site, I’ve found something that seems to do what you’re needing. Take a look
   at this [tutorial](http://moshublog.com/2007/07/26/pages-and-categories/) and
   the results in this [demo blog](http://www.transycan.net/devdemo/). Hope that
   helps. If you’re able to get this working I’d appreciate some tips. 🙂
 *  [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/)
 * (@shane-g)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-blogs-1/#post-1220849)
 * Hi,
 * Either you can install wordpress of different directory of your domain or use
   Multi User WordPress:
    [http://mu.wordpress.org/](http://mu.wordpress.org/)
 * Thanks.
 * Shane G.
 *  [i3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/i3/)
 * (@i3)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-blogs-1/#post-1220850)
 * There isn’t a built it way to do this, however, you can accomplish this with 
   a little change to a blog template.
 * Here is what to do:
    - Create two pages for each individual blogs.
    - Create two categories with the same name as the pages
    - Copy the blog template and name it ‘multi-blog.php’
    - Open the template PHP file and change the title at the top to the new template.
      should look like
    - > /*
      >  Template Name: multi-blog */
    -  (this will make it show in the page templates)
    -  Lastly we need to change the way it searches for posts. This is done further
      down in your new multi-blog.php file. Add the following two lines
    - >  $query_string = “&category_name=”.$post->post_title;
      >  query_posts($query_string);
    - before this line
    - >  <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    - It should look like this:
    - >  $query_string = “&category_name=”.$post->post_title;
      >  query_posts($query_string);
      > <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    -  Lastly, assign this new template to the your blog pages by editing the page.
    -  Create posts under each category and they should show up blog.
 * What this does is display any post where the category of the post and page name
   are identical. In theory, if you had two blogger who wanted to share a post you
   could select both categories and the post is shared in-between them. I find this
   nice simple solution to cross referencing products by manufacture, usage, etc…
   pages.
 * Let me know if it worked for you! [dereka@infinite3.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-wordpress-blogs-1/dereka@infinite3.com?output_format=md)

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