What I want:
Two wordpress blogs with separate cats and tags
reggi.com/portfolio/category/example
reggi.com/blog/category/example
reggi.com/portfolio/tags/example
reggi.com/blog/tags/example
Site root to not be wordpress or to be a static page with custom template
reggi.com/ <-- NOT wordpress
reggi.com/portfolio <-- wordpress
reggi.com/blog <-- wordpress
One theme directory
What I have tried so far:
I have installed one wordpress theme in the root reggi.com and had a plugin which removed category from reggi.com/category/portfolio. This worked but my permalink structure was really sluggish as for each post was queried first with %category%. I also ran into problems with the tags where it was skipping over the category in the url and displaying something like reggi.com/tags/example rather than reggi.com/portfolio/tags/example.
I have installed multisite but I am running into problems where I need to display different indexes for /portfolio and /blog I am thinking my only option would be to have the template index look at the url and if it is /blog or /portfolio display the respective themes accordingly. Is this wise? I don’t know how to setup /blog with multisite post here.
Are there any other ways to go about this? Something I’m missing? Should I just have two separate wordpress installs?