Can I have a wordpress blog within my existing site?

  • tjobbe

    (@tjobbe)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    Please ignore my previous posts, I don’t understand wordpress enough to even understand what I want, let alone describe it.

    Let’s start from the beginning!

    My sister has an existing web site: http://www.learntocookathome.co.uk/ which has static html pages.

    I would like to replicate the existing static page content, but add a blog category to the top menu, so that the blog posts only show in that blog category.

    When someone clicks on the blog link in the top nav they would see a title, excerpt and date of the blog posts, and show the most recent x blog posts on that page. clicking the title allows you to see the individual posts.

    Is this possible?? Do you understand what I’m trying to achieve? Basically, I want an existing static site to have a blog within it. What is the best way to do it?

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  • 772009

    15 years, 9 months ago

    I am trying to achieve the same thing! I want to be able to add blog post on more than one page, not just the home page. For the life of me I can’t seem to figure out how!

    Thread Starter tjobbe

    (@tjobbe)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Veneratio – I don’t *quite* think it is the same thing.

    You can not post blogs to pages, only to categories. Create a category and name it as you wish, then when you create a new post (note – NOT a page) there will be an option to choose to post TO the category you just made.

    Now, back on topic.

    Assuming I have a category called BLOG – how do I have that category in my nav bar at the top?

    Roy

    (@gangleri)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    You could just use the “blogroll” (“manage”->”links”) for that.

    Thread Starter tjobbe

    (@tjobbe)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    You could just use the “blogroll” (“manage”->”links”) for that.

    How would that work? I do not have a sidebar in my site and don’t intend on having one either.

    Maybe I just don’t understand the blogrol – never used it before.

    Roy

    (@gangleri)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    My “blogroll” is in the header, together with the “pages”. I use the “blogroll” to navigate to my other section (WP installations), but you can use them for any link.

    772009

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Actually, that is exactly what I am trying to do as well! lol

    I can’t manage to put a link to my categories in my navigation either :S

    Gangleri, how do you put your categories in your navigation along with your pages?

    Roy

    (@gangleri)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    This is from my header.php:

    <div id="hmenu">
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1') ?> <?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0') ?>
</ul>
</div>

    “list_pages” makes a list of pages, “list_bookmarks” the “blogroll” or “links”. Of course you’ll have to edit the style.css too, so it’s easier to find a theme that has navigation in the header by default (end edit it if necessary).

    Thread Starter tjobbe

    (@tjobbe)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    How could this be edited to show the categories?

    Thread Starter tjobbe

    (@tjobbe)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    The answer to that is YES!

    <ul id="nav">
		<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=1') ?> <?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&categorize=0') ?>
		</ul>
    Roy

    (@gangleri)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, but in that case you’ll have a massive header when you got 100 categories. Safer might be just a link in the blogroll with a direct link to a category.

    Thread Starter tjobbe

    (@tjobbe)

    15 years, 9 months ago

    I only need to have one category, so this would suit me fine!

    Thanks Gangleri!

    Is this something you can assist with? –> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/191014?replies=1

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