I think asides have added an extra dimension to this site, and they’ve allowed me to extend my creativity beyond the confines of a particular post topic.

I love em, frankly, and the response from users has been much better than I could have anticipated.

I toyed with this idea much earlier in the year, and at the time, I understood a lot less about the WordPress architecture than I do now.

That said, I couldn’t figure out a way to target one particular DB over the other. I guess theoretically, you might be able to write a SQL query that targets a specific DB, but if this can be done without rewriting the core WordPress framework, then this is all news to me.

For now, I’d stick with the categories if I were you

I was going to set up a second instance of wordpress just for the aside content. Then I’d configure the RSS sidebar widget in the main site to display posts from the aside feed. The trick would be to make the two sites seamless, but then I’d have a whole new set of categories for the asides.

thanks.