Setting up two separate blogs while using WordPress as a CMS

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I need to get this set up ASAP and cannot seem to figure out how to do this after searching and searching.

I am using a WordPress install mostly as a CMS. I would like to have two separate areas on my site for blogs that do not share posts. When going to mydomain.com, it should show a custom page (nothing to do with a blog). I have this working fine, but I need to make it so /blog will show posts from my company and /photography/blog will show posts only related to photography.

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My .htaccess doesn’t have anything except the code WordPress said to put in it. Whenever I go to mydomain.com/blog, it forwards me to a post instead of showing me a list of posts/summaries like mydomain.com on a fresh WordPress install.

How can I fix this? My URLs are set up under Reading and Permalinks to look like the following.

How can I follow the format below so my posts on Photography will remain separate from my company’s posts?

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  1. If you want the two to be completely separate (as you hint at in your question), you have two (or three?) options:

    1. You install multiple blogs with a sub-directory structure of your choice. This way you will have complete control of your URLs. For example you could have one install running out of your /blog directory, and have another one running out of /blog/photography/blog. Make sure you read this article for more info.

    2. You run a MultiSite install. It will be a little trickier to setup, and you would probably need to write some URL rewrite rules to achieve what you want to achieve, but the pro of this approach is that you’ll manage both sites from one admin panel. Check out this guide for guidance.

    3. This being said, if you don’t want such separation you can always play with category names and URL rewrites to make it happen as well. I’m just not sure how separate you want the two to be.

  2. What your are looking for are custom post types, you need to add a new custom post type named photography it will make a very similar output to what you are expecting, you will also have to change the posts page to the blog page on reading options. It’s very easy to create a new post type just add this code to you functions.php file

    add_action( 'init', 'create_post_type' );
function create_post_type() {
register_post_type( 'photography',
    array(
        'labels' => array(
            'name' => __( 'photographs' ),
            'singular_name' => __( 'photography' )
        ),
        'public' => true,
        'has_archive' => true,
        'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'photography'),
    )
);
}

    There is a very good plugin that writes this for you and very good for understanding custom post types Custom Post Type UI