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Posted by Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Options for blog sites outside of WordPress?

Hi everyone!

I am just wondering what options I have for creating a site that would have a blog section.

Most of the images on this site are SVG, and everything but the blog would in my opinion work better as html and css, not dynamic php.

I am happy to build the site as a custom WordPress theme if that is the best option. It just seems against what I know of WordPress to be using hard coded text and images :S

Is there an option to use a blog.mydomain.com ?

Has anyone done this before and what is the linking process between the two domains / sites ?

Any advice and help here is welcome :)

Craig

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

Wordpress does work as subdomains and in subfolders. Look at Dollar Shave Club. Now look at their blog.

Their main website is not Wordpress, but there blog is, which is exactly what you were asking about. Another option if you just needed a really simple blog would be to use Jekyll

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Thanks Kevin!

I will take a look through the docs of Jekyll and see what that is all about :)

I have never worked with subdomains or subfolders but from your links I would be happy to adopt that approach.

Big decisions ahead I think lol

Thanks again :)