I have a website that is live on the internet. I want to implement a WordPress blog into it, but I need the blog to have the same look as my current website. Is this easy to setup? Or is there anything special I'll need to do?
How to install new WordPress into exsisting website (8 posts)
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akumpis
Posted 2 years ago # -
Several thoughts come to mind.
One, You can find a theme that is close then modify it from there, mostly it is just CSS.
Two, You could just integrate your website into WP and use WP as a CMS for the entire site. This gives you the freedom to start over with new themes and plugins.
Also, you could just leave the WP blog a seperate theme but integrate the menu system. I did this on one web site and it worked out fine. From the visitors viewpoint, it was the same site, just the blog was formatted differently.
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I want to install a blog in a subdirectory of my website. I understand that it will be formatted somewhat differently than the other features of my site. I plan to cite it in my menu with a link so that visitors to my site can view it and participate in it if they wish to do so. I'm wondering what href tag you cite in your menu that takes visitors to your blog. Is that just your normal URL with your domain address and then the added "blog" directory? What is the exact citation for your menu link? I haven't been able to get my database blog installed yet, but this is one question that I have regarding the process. Your explanation of this process will be helpful to me and perhaps to akumpis also. Thanks.
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If you want to install your WP blog on your web site without changing your web site except to link to it, do this:
Create a directory called blog. This will make the path
http://mysite.com/blog.Create your WP database, change wp-config locally then upload WP to
/blog.Go to
http://mysite.com/blogand finish the install process. Visitors can view your blog athttp://mysite.com/blogand you can manage your blog athttp://mysite.com/blog/wp-admin.You need to add a menu link to the blog from your web site by adding
<a href="http://mysite.com/blog" title="Go to mysite's Blog">Blog</a>in the menu link list.In your blog add
<a href="http://mysite.com" title="Return to mysite's Home Page">Home Page</a>. One easy way to do this is to use the text widgit and inset the link into it. Log in to your admin area of your blog, click widgits in the left side bar, drag the text widgit into the right side bar, click down arrow, add the link text, save it and you are done.I tried to be as detailed as possible and don't think I missed anything.
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Hi a_johnson,
Your instructions seem to be pretty complete and clear, but I have one question. You indicate that I should
Log in to your admin area of your blog
, but how exactly do I do that?Since I haven't been able to install my database blog, I'm not sure what its files or pages are going to look like. Will this href rule in my blog be the only link back to my site and its pages that appears in the blog? If that is the case, that is OK. I would just like to know. I don't want my blog to be completely isolated from my site once a viewer gets to it.
Thanks for your further instructions regarding this process. I do hope to be able to get a WP blog installed into my site, but so far I haven't been too successful.
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jonimueller
Posted 2 years ago #Bob, I think you need to worry about getting your blog installed (in the other thread) before worrying about how to link to something which, at this writing, doesn't exist.
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Vic Dinovici
Posted 2 years ago #check this out - a simple way to
[spam link moderated]Also I recommend you to create your blog into a subdomain. Will be something like this http://blog.mysite.com.
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songdogtech
Posted 2 years ago #@snowwalker: what's the point of your irrelevant thread responses? Your own spam link?
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