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  • mg330

    Thanks for the responses to my last question. So, here's another question:

    If you went to a site that was url.com, and had links to url.com/photos, url.com/ux, url.com/music you'd probably assume these were all within the url.com site, and maintained the same visual look and feel.

    But if they were distinctly different, ex: each subfolder is essentially a homepage for that "site" and each of those sites had pages, posts, etc. within, would that be weird?

    That's why I thought using subdomains would be the right way to go, because that perhaps gives a better impression that it's a distinct site. The UX and photo sites would each have their own blog, and on the main url.com domain, these would pull into that page, which would accumulate all blog posts and offer very limited content, and a link to a contact page that serves as the contact page for all the sites.

    Just trying to decide if I'm thinking about this the right way. Every once in a while I get the urge to finally consolidate a couple different sites and I've been checking out multisite in Wordpress, along with a really versatile theme, and thinking about how to go forward.

    • hmm. if the url.com is just a one-page thing then url.com/music and url.com/photos would be fine I think. I'm not a UX or design person thoSquiddy
    • but since photos and music are different, maybe go for different domain names and manage it with Multisite Domain Mapping and stick to subdomain.Squiddy

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