clubbing a wordpress theme with another wordpress theme/html5 pages

[chauhanheena]

Hi,

I want to do the following.

I have a wordpress site http://www.xyz.com and its based on a theme bought from themeforest. It’s mostly a one page website but there is a blog which is not a part of the one page and opens as a multi page.

I want to create a mini site withing this wordpress site. I can either use a different wordpress theme or use a html5 templates. Is it possible. If there are any steps to follow. I want to retain the http://www.xyz.com/minisite as the url.

Thanks

[Senff]

So, do you want this mini site to be just the blog (that’s part of the original theme)?

Or do you want a completely separate site at http://www.xyz.com/minisite with a different theme and such?

[chauhanheena]

Its not a blog. There already is a blog which is based on the main theme.
Its going to be a totally different site with a different site with a different wordpress theme or a HTML5 pages. Which would be easier.

http://www.xyz.com will have links to http://www.xyz.com/minisite.

[Senff]

Ok, so then start with putting the files of your site into the directory “minisite” instead of the root (where all your WordPress files are).

Your WordPress site might think that http://www.xyz.com/minisite is actually a page called “minisite” so you probably have to do some additional work in .htaccess file. Something like this should be added above the WordPress stuff:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/minisite/(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
</IfModule>

From a structural point of view though, it might be better to have the WordPress site also in a subdirectory on your root as well, something like this:

• yoursite.com/
  • wordpress/
  • minisite/

And then following this process, you can make sure that http://www.yoursite.com makes the user go to http://www.yoursite.com/wordpress automatically (so you won’t see the “wordpress” in the URL).

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