Multi WordPress folders

CMS & WordPress
1

I have a self-hosted WordPress blog that works fine. I have a static website that has a link to the blog. I would now like to make the static web site behave in the manner of the WordPress blog. My question is do I have to add a separate mySQL data base for the website.

Any suggestions?

2

If the static website is just a normal HTML page you wouldn’t need to setup a database for it.

By “behave in the same manner”, do you mean mimic the WordPress’ blogs design?

3

Not so much the design, but rather to ease of installing media and such, and the dynamic way WordPress works.

4

Why not use WordPress for the entire site? It’d take a bit of work to migrate your static site over but then your entire site would be in one place making it easy to keep up with.

5

To run them both off the same database you need to go into the wp-config.php and change/create the Table prefixes.

From the wp-config-sample.php:

[COLOR=“Orange”]/**

  • WordPress Database Table prefix.
  • You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
  • prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
    */[/COLOR]
    $table_prefix = ‘wp_’;
6

Mike, it sounds like you want to expand wordpress from just a blog to a CMS. Am I correct?

7

you can use import-html-pages plugins .