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Caleb Walker
6,900 PointsBest way to include an existing WP.com blog in new site built from scratch
If I'm re-building a site from the ground up, and the client already has a wordpress.com blog with many posts, what is the best way to include that in the site. I would like to have it appear to be hosted right on the site, integrated seamlessly. Thank you for your thoughts.
2 Answers
Micah Cooksey
7,151 PointsHey Caleb,
The best option would probably be to export the WordPress.com blog to a WordPress.org installation and integrate it into the rest of the site (http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/ and http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website). You can have the blog portion of the site based on WordPress, and the rest of the site can be built around whatever you like.
You could also build the entire site with WordPress, depending on the client's needs.
Caleb Walker
6,900 PointsThank you, Micah! That certainly helps. I'd like to write the whole site, mainly for experience, even though I'm more familiar with building entire WP sites. I'l have to dig a little deeper until I get to PHP here on Treehouse.
If you don't mind, would the subdirectory 'blog' (as used in the WP Codex tutorial) consist only of one PHP and one HTML file?
Thank you again for your response. (I apologize for my ignorance.)