Posted 3 years ago #
My goal would be to use wordpress and have it look and ideally be in my current website as a series of pages beneath an existing website. I'd like the simplest method, but want it to look like the rest of my site. Do I need to install wordpress on my system for this? If I do install it, do I lose the connectivity and features (such as people discovering my feed) from wordpress.com? Is there a way to do it on wordpress.com and integrated it into my website?
Thanks! Derek Beck (blog newbie)
Posted 3 years ago #
WordPress.ORG and .COM don't have too much to do with eachother so/and I don't think features are mutually exchangable.
You can install WP, make a link on your website and try to make WP thus that it "looks and feels" like the website (or easier: the other way around :-) ).
Posted 3 years ago #
Am I losing anything by not using wordpress.com, such as the ability to have people discover my blogs, the blog search engines finding me, etc?
Posted 3 years ago #
@derekbeck Yeap.
Posted 3 years ago #
Thanks for the replies. So here's what is making this really confusing: http://wordpress.com/notable-users/
Are these users, like CNN, using wordpress.com? Or have they installed the wordpress software onto their server?
Are these users, like CNN, using wordpress.com?
Yes, they are using WordPress.com.
Posted 3 years ago #
How is it that CNN's page then looks like it is part of cnn.com?
Posted 3 years ago #
You can install on your server for sure, but you can also just install it on WordPress and create a theme matching with your website css.
How is it that CNN's page then looks like it is part of cnn.com?
Magic.
Posted 3 years ago #
And what about how the blog has cnn.com as the web url in the browser bar?
Posted 3 years ago #
Just to be sure, so, for example, http://www.nytimes.com/ref/topnews/blog-index.html , which appears to be on the nytimes.com server, is actually a wordpress.com blog that appears to be on nytimes.com?
Again, Magic. :)
Seriously, you speak as if it's impossible to do this sort of thing, when in reality it would only take about 20 minutes to set up.
The site http://icanhascheezburger.com runs on WordPress.com too. This is not hard to do.
Big corporations like CNN pay to have WordPress.com host their blog sites using their software. Not difficult to grasp here, man.
Posted 3 years ago #
So they've basically paid to have custom css and have a subdomain pointing to the nameservers on wordpress.com?
So, "why" would cnn use wordpress.com? Isn't it less cost, particularly if you have your own server, to run wordpress.org's code on your own server?
PS: Thanks for all of your replies, sorry I'm a rookie :)
Posted 3 years ago #
Isn't it less cost, particularly if you have your own server, to run wordpress.org's code on your own server?
Not necessarily. CNN's blog needs to be (relatively) bug free, software maintained, and highly available. Maintaining that may cost CNN less to use Automattic's service.
CNN could staff people to do the patching, maintenance, etc. but by using WordPress.COM they get to concentrate on the content and the presentation (CSS). This leaves Automattic to handled the back end software, the servers and keep it all running smoothly.
Posted 3 years ago #
They are part of the VIP program which cost about $500 a month per blog with a startup fee of $600 which enables them to use custom css.
Posted 3 years ago #
thanks for all of the insights. I'm still debating w/ myself on going wordpress.org or wordpress.com...
Posted 3 years ago #
PS: I want the custom CSS but don't want to pay wordpress.com for that feature... On the other hand, I'd like the simplicity and care-free operation of wordpress.com...
Posted 3 years ago #
Here's another way to decide...
If you know what you are doing technically, and have the time to maintain the blog in terms of plugin and core upgrades plus have the time to provide content, and love coding/hacking then wordpress.org is the way to go
If you are incompetent technically, don't know where to begin on how to upgrade, plus you don't bother to read the documentation and/or search this forum for help, then wordpress.com is the way to go. Oh, and if you don't have enough time and/or just want to focus on the content side then wordpress.com is also the way to go.
Posted 3 years ago #
yeah, i think i'm leaning toward wordpress.org. the time is the only concern, really. But I want the css and especially the ability to have the blog at mywebsite.com w/o paying extra for that (i don't believe wordpress.com will allow that freely).
Posted 3 years ago #
You're still going to have to pay for a domain name... that's the least of your worries considering how cheap it is... then you'll also have to get a decent host and pay monthly for that.
Posted 3 years ago #
yeah, i have a host and domain already. just need to weigh my options. thanks for all of the help from everyone!
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