Hi,
I host multiple domains and websites in the following way :
My main website is frozentime.se, and I have BL with a WP_Theme blog there.
But I have another domain hosted in a subdirectory, so virubuster.se points to frozentime.se/virubustor.
Maybe not the best way to do it, but I’m stuck with it for historical reasons, and it seems to work.
But now I’d like to add a blog to virubustor.se, and I just want to check that I can install WP_Theme under frozentime.se/virubustor without wrecking my original blog ? Since I already have WordPress installed at the top level, can I just install the theme under virubustor ? Or do I need a new WP installation ?
Will terrible things happen if I try ?
You’ll need to install WordPress into the virubustor folder.
You can try copying the existing theme into the proper location of the WP installation in the virubustor folder.
I don’t know if a Backlight WP theme depends on Backlight also being installed; you may also need to install Backlight in the virubustor folder.
OK, so I need a second WP installation, that’s good to know, and makes me more confident that it won’t affect my main blog. I already have BL in the virubustor folder, so that’s OK.
I’ll give that a go. Thanks.
Yep, completely separate installations of BL and WP under the virubustor folder was the way to go.
No conflicts except for the minor quirk that when I export the virubustor WPtheme from BL, it lands in my top level frozentime theme folder instead of the virubustor one, even though I believe I have the site URL set correctly. But manually moving it fixes the problem.
Make sure that the WordPress url is correct in Backlight Settings > WordPress.
If you’ve installed your site in a sub-folder, the path to the WP installation needs to include the sub-folder name.
Ah, I need to set it there as well as siteURL.
Great. That fixed it.
Thanks again !