Title: Separate but joinable sections
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Separate but joinable sections

 *  [gregraven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregraven/)
 * (@gregraven)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separate-but-joinable-sections/)
 * We want to add press releases to our site, and WordPress seems a natural for 
   that. However, because of WordPress’ strengths, my boss wants to convert the 
   magazine articles already on the site from static pages to WordPress pages.
 * He also wants visitors to be able to search press releases separately from magazine
   articles, AND he wants to be able to search both sections together.
 * I’m assuming I can run multiple instances of WordPress, one for the press releases
   and one for the magazine articles. I need to know if it is possible to have a
   search function that spans all the items in each section? Also, is it possible
   in WordPress to have an index.html page that contains automatically-updated content
   from each of the separate instances of WordPress?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separate-but-joinable-sections/#post-504884)
 * Search wasn’t ever a strong feature of WP 🙁
    WP’s internal search is searching
   ONLY the posts. Several plugins have been written to make possible searching 
   for “everything”, i.e. Pages, comments, custom fields etc. – but they all stopped
   working since. 2.0.6. (presently the latest stable is 2.0.7)
 * You can run multiple installs, yes. They should be in their own directories:
   
   you can have one install at the root, example.com another one in example.com/
   install2 directory example.com/install3 etc.
 * No, you can NOT have an index.html in WP. However, you can modify the index.PHP
   from the install in the root to display current content from install2 and install3
   by using the RSS feeds (and a feedreader).
 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separate-but-joinable-sections/#post-504885)
 * Er yes. You can. All of that. But you either need to do a lot of hacking or you
   need pro advice. It is way beyond the scope of most enquiries on this forum. 
   But it is certainly very doable. I would just use one WP instance and some php
   to integrate the extra search functionality. Not a big deal.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separate-but-joinable-sections/#post-504885)
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