Wordpress: Moving blog to subdirectory or two installs?

Post date: 2020-03-30 09:15:46

One of the things on my "Want to do when I have the time" list (which um... now there's time enough at last) is to make the home page of my website into a landing page for info about me and links to social, as well as a way to continue on to my WP-backended blog (which is irregularly updated). Ideally I would like to maybe keep this all within wordpress? I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this.

I would like
mysite.com to be a landing page (which could, i suppose, be a static page, but also there is a wordpress landing page theme that I like)
mysite.com/blog to be the current WP-powered home page (i.e. the wordpress default home page). Yes I know i will need to update sitemaps/it may mess with my google SEO (i'm not especially concerned with organic traffic).

Setting my home page to a static one to use the landing page theme would seem to mean that there is then no way to have a regular WP home page (with reverse chronological blog posts) in the subdirectory.

Every tutorial i look at for this seems to imply that it is super complicated and that there are no shortcuts.

I may be overthinking so wanted to put it out to the WP-nerd hivemind.

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