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Posted by Anthony Hind
Anthony Hind
5,715 Points

Blog Integration without Wordpress

Hi all,

Just wondering what the best method is to have a blog on a website, I understand WordPress is a great system and I love using it but if for example if you wanted a simple three/four page website with a blog or Journal page how could this be achieved or am I making far more work than what is required?

Cheers

Anthony

4 Answers

klam tine
klam tine
15,524 Points
klam tine
klam tine
15,524 Points

In short: Just put your articles online as index.html

I assume you have already known how to put a website online. Just make some href links to switch between those articles. But, you probably want more if you are ambitious enough. You may think I want to sort them by a timeline, getting some tags, when it grows up you gotta need a search method...

Please just use Wordpress to make life easier.

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points
Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points

WordPress is the quickest and easiest option. Making it work outside of WordPress is no big deal but you'll acheive the same as using WordPress in more time and there's no scope for expanding on the idea.

Elissa Collier
Elissa Collier
8,530 Points
Elissa Collier
Elissa Collier
8,530 Points

I've started to just install wordpress in the subfolder /blog... Maybe that's an option for you?

Anthony Hind
Anthony Hind
5,715 Points
Anthony Hind
Anthony Hind
5,715 Points

Cheers Guys,

Thanks for you input just something that has been at the back of my mind, I was thinking of just styling my pages to look like a blog but that will just end up causing more problems like Michael said, my main issues with Wordpress is the slow loading time and also security, maybe that is something I need to improve on to get a bit more confidence with using wordpress and custom building.

cheers

Anthony