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Wordpress question
localh77
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Apologies if this is a dumb question, but I've already broken my site once, so I thought it would be better to ask first this time.
Anyway, I have a site (hosted by godaddy, if that matters), that I recently added wordpress to so that we could have a blog. The overall site is pretty simple, though, so for consistency I think I'd rather just move all of the content to wordpress.
My main question is whether it's possible to have all of the blog posts not on the main page. So the homepage would just be mydomain.com, and the blog content (like posts and those archive links and stuff on the side) on mydomain.com/blog.
Like I said, I think the wordpress stuff I already set up is corrupted beyond repair, which is ok because I haven't spent much time on it yet. But I was planning to just delete it and reinstall, and I wanted to make sure I do it right this time. When I first set it upI remember being asked to set the wordpress location and the site location (I don't remember what those settings were called, exactly, but something like that), both of which I set to mydomain.com/wordpress. What should I set them to this time? I'm assuming the wordpress location can still be mydomain.com/wordpress, but the site should just be mydomain.com? In that case, though, wouldn't all of the blog related stuff show up on the homepage?
I don't know if I'm explaining this very clearly, let me know if not. And thanks in advance.
Anyway, I have a site (hosted by godaddy, if that matters), that I recently added wordpress to so that we could have a blog. The overall site is pretty simple, though, so for consistency I think I'd rather just move all of the content to wordpress.
My main question is whether it's possible to have all of the blog posts not on the main page. So the homepage would just be mydomain.com, and the blog content (like posts and those archive links and stuff on the side) on mydomain.com/blog.
Like I said, I think the wordpress stuff I already set up is corrupted beyond repair, which is ok because I haven't spent much time on it yet. But I was planning to just delete it and reinstall, and I wanted to make sure I do it right this time. When I first set it upI remember being asked to set the wordpress location and the site location (I don't remember what those settings were called, exactly, but something like that), both of which I set to mydomain.com/wordpress. What should I set them to this time? I'm assuming the wordpress location can still be mydomain.com/wordpress, but the site should just be mydomain.com? In that case, though, wouldn't all of the blog related stuff show up on the homepage?
I don't know if I'm explaining this very clearly, let me know if not. And thanks in advance.
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The trouble I got into the first time was in changing those two settings I mentioned, after which I couldn't seem to get back in to fix it. Which is why I thought it would be easier to just start out with wordpress on the whole site, rather than setting it all up and then moving it. But let me know if that's not the best way to go.
There are then settings you can set up for posts (blog posts) to use a /blog prefix (probably something like /blog/year/month/day/post-slug).
There are then further settings to choose what the index page is/shows, which you can set to be the list of posts or a "page" (like a home page)
Thanks for the heads up! I've got local copies of everything, so I can live with having everything cleared out. I'll give it a shot...