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This topic is of interest to me too, and it seems to me that the wordpress experts are missing the point. The situation I have, it seems similar to that of Artcolombia and Thebicyclingguitarist is that I assist the technical support of a website that was originally developed using, and is still updated, using MS Frontpage. I understand that MS Frontpage is an obsolete and clunky package for updating websites, but the website is already very large and to convert to another package and still retain the ‘include pages’ function retaing features such as sidebars and page footers as separate ones (eg, using shtml) would be a mammoth task. Therefore the owner of the website wishes to continue using Frontpage to update the main pages of the website.

What we wish to do now is ADD a blog facility to the website as an addition, in much the same was as the Justin Webb’s blog about America is incorporated into the BBC news website. I understand that the blog would be updated by an entirely different means to the main pages of the website, that would still be updated via Frontpage. What we want to know is, how do we install the software in the first place? When Frontpage extensions are switched on, at this host (Webfusion) FTP file transfer is switched off to avoid users corrupting the Frontpage extensions setup.

Is there any way in which it is possible to maintain most pages of the website using frontpage as previously, while safely running alongside a successful installation of WordPress, installed using Frontpage as the only available means of transferring files to the website?