@nmiletic The content section of the site requires a unique UI Design and other robust functionality, so having a separate theme/plugins in its own directory is going to be the way we go here. Thanks for your assistance!

@danny_exxa @amitydigital

The website at the subdirectory will be an online learning platform with a blog, online courses, memberships, gated content, etc. The content currently lives on the main site, so, it's great that we can move it into the subdirectory without taking a hit from Google.

Since these are fundamentally two separate websites, we're not concerned about needing to manage them independently.

Thanks again for your input and advice, we greatly appreciate it!

Hi There,

I'm working on a WordPress site that includes a premium content blog with approx 900 posts.

As part of the project, those 900 posts and other membership functionality will be moved from the main site to another site built specifically for content/membership.

Ideally, we want the existing posts to remain on the root domain to avoid a loss in link juice/domain authority.

We initially began setting up a WordPress Multisite using the sub-directory option. This allows for the main site to be at www.website.com and the secondary site to be at www.website.com/secondary.

Unfortunately, the themes and plugins we need for the platform do not play nicely with WordPress Multisite, so we started seeking a new solution, and, discovered that a second instance of WordPress can be installed in a subdirectory on the server. This would give us the same subdirectory structure while bypassing WordPress Multisite and instead, having two separate single-site installs.

Do you foresee any issues with this WordPress subdirectory install? Does Google care/know these are two separate WordPress installs and do we risk losing any link juice/domain authority?