Awesome WP Trick I Learned on My Aquarian Birthday!

Today's my birthday and for the FIRST TIME in a minute I am HAPPY to say I'm another age.

2010 a year from hell at first, but it taught me a LOT of things. I'm more assertive, and really soft-hearted, and even though I kinda knew it (but didn't feel it) ... LOVED for who I am by genuine people.

MUSHY THINGS ASIDE!!!

Okay, I just totally figured out some awesome stuff!
I installed Shopperpress within another Wordpress installation of my root domain, so that I can keep my selected theme for the "content" portion of the site while maintaining a configurable, professional e-commerce look for the affiliate products.

Now people I know say I "do too much", right?

Basically, before this, I would make subdomains on my sites and got overwhelmed and never finished any.

On this particular site, I imported a lot of items via Shopperpress then changed themes. I had a million published posts but they were ugly and useless because they weren't automatically configured to embed ids, etc. In other words, I was preparing to edit a million posts one by one.

So I said to myself, "Self, you're doing too much."

Self responded, "You're right. There HAS to be a way to make the site look official without the need for a subdomain. You know, how other sites have different sections like www.Site.com/subsite , and the subsite looks totally different?"

In other words, instead of :

shop.site.com

I could make

www.site.com/shop

and keep everything under the same domain.

So Self then said, after a moment of contemplation, "Wait! If we create a page, then all we need to do is reinstall Wordpress on the directory subfolder, and it shouldn't disturb the root contents, kind of like how you put new pics in a subfolder on your computer and it doesn't disturb the overall folder itself!"

She looked at me with a devilish grin, complete with wiggling eyebrows. "Shall we try....?"

I said, "Self, you're going HAM right now! Let's do this!"


We we did...


And guess what?!

IT WORKED!


Now, hopefully, my site will get the benefits of ALL those items for SEO, and easily have a large footprint within the search engines, because in my experience (and mine may be different from others'), subdomains are still treated like separate domains in a sense, so you still kind of have to undergo the indexing process all over again. Now, hopefully, it will index quicker.

The BEST part of my discovery?

You can possibly mix and match CMS systems, forums, classifieds, etc --- and make an easier SQUEEZE page for your info products, as long as you create a new "subfolder" in the main URL that matches to Wordpress.

I haven't tried this yet but this opens up a whole new set of possibilities, because before this, I would have been hoping someone made a plugin or a theme that did this without going crazy with CSS (I'm not that advanced!)

Aw yeah!

PS. If you knew this already, sorry, I didn't and several people I knew didn't. So just gimme a thumbs up for the mini lightbulb, no matter how late I am !