Best way to organize site with WordPress components

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Hi,

I’m the developer of a website I coded without a CMS (it’s a Learning Management System). Now that the site is up and running, I’ve added a blog as part of my inbound marketing strategy. I wanted to keep my site “clean” so I installed WordPress in my_site.com/blog (BTW, this is my first interaction with WordPress). Now I’m thinking that I’ll need additional pages such as resources, case studies, etc. and I’d like to use WordPress to develop those pages.

My first thought was to install WordPress again in my_site.com/extras (or something like that) and then start developing from there. Is this a good approach, or is there another organization of my files that might make more sense?

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You only need one install of WordPress even if you are going to create multiple sites with it.

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And, this would be possible even if my first wordpress is installed in a subdirectory? For example, it’s installed in my_site/blog, but then I’d like to develop pages that would go into my_site/extras.

Would this be an example of what WordPress refers to as a Multi-Site? I don’t need (or want!) a full walk through, but it would be great to know if I’m thinking about this correctly.

Or could this be achieved using mod_rewrite in my root folder’s .htaccess to re-direct my_site/some_wordpress_page to my_site/blog/some_wordpress_page with a (possible) rewriting of the link in the blog’s .htaccess file so that it still looks like my_site/some_wordpress_page to the user?

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Yes, I think that this would be possibile without any problem. Obviously still with a single WP install. But I may be wrong, so maybe would be better for you to wait for other experts opinions, just to be sure.

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Yes.- a multisite WordPress can have any combination of domains, subdomains and folders as the ‘sites’ .

For multiple folders you’d just need to set up a redirect from the /extra folder to the /blog folder in order for it to find the wordpress site on the /extra folder.

It’s easier with subdomains and domains as then you just point them to the same folder in the first place but I can’t see why it wouldn’t work with folders - just a bit more manual work in setting up the redirect in addition to fixing the ‘site’ addresses…

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I appreciate your thoughts and your comment about waiting for other input.

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Thanks!

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