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jane
12 years ago
Like the YouTube video, William. I want to do a multi site WordPress install cos i alreday have a couple of wordpress blogs with dreamhost. BUT, I want to also shift my regular old fashioned html site to a wordpress site.
So, my question is: if I start by putting the *new* wordpress site into a folder http://www.mydomain/blog (to make sure I don’t overwrite my existing site until I;m ready with the new wordpress version) is it easy for me to go in later and make the new* wordpress site visible from http://www.mydomain?
best
Jane
admin
12 years ago
Hey Jane, yes you can! WordPress makes this easy under the Settings > General tab in your admin backend. Here’s a link that walks you through it — http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory. I think the only requirement is you not have WordPress installed in the root directory.
Good looking site by the way! Hope that helps
— William Bryant
Zeinab
11 years ago
Hello! Is there someway to disable comments since I don’t intent to use my site as a blog?
Thank you!
William
11 years ago
Yep, there’s several ways to do it. This article outlines some great ideas on just how to do that: http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/71547.aspx