I wrote my original post about running two blogs on one site a while back, and it’s been one of the most popular articles here, but I’ve never been entirely satisfied with the approach. Maintaining two separate WordPress blogs, even when they share the same installation files, is not really convenient.

So when I revamped the site recently I was keen to find an alternative way of handling the issue. In this article I’m going to describe how I set about it.

More about having two blogs on a single site

In my previous post about search engine optimisation of WordPress I described how I was using the Permalink Redirect plugin to ensure all the URLs at this site are correctly slash-terminated. Today however I was using rebuilding my Google site map using GSiteCrawler when I was dismayed to notice that all the “wrong” URLs were still appearing in the list. How could that be? The answer took some finding (and it’s all rather technical), but I think it’s worth mentioning as others may unawares have the same problem, which causes the plugin to be defeated even though it seems to be working.
(more…)

I’ve just given this entire site a makeover. I got fed up with the hybrid site management I’d knocked together when I first set it up and I decided that migrating it fully to WordPress would be the best approach. At the same time I thought this would be a great opportunity to do some serious search engine optimisation, since WordPress, combined with the right plugins, would make the process much easier.
(more…)