I have installed wordpress blog in my existing website. I want my wordpress blog to look similar to my website design.
You need to modify the theme of your wordpress blog to match your site look.
I am using wordpress shop plugins also blog pages but right now I want to make a new wordpress site and in this site I only want to show wordpress blog but it show blank page.I think because of plugins missing in new installation.One thing more I m using same database for both wordpress site.
Can any one please guide me?
Client had a flat file php site and wanted a blog, so I installed wordpress stand along blog. Now they want to convert then entire site to Wordpress. The current blog is in a subdirectory called "blog". I would like to create a blog page called "blog" on the new site and import the posts that are in the WP standalone blog installation.
Can I just take the SQL statements and insert them as autoincrements in the new database. How do I import the tags and categories. What about the author number? It will be painstaking, but I don't want to cut and paste a hundred blog posts.
Install WordPress in root http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress .
Create a page called Blog with the slug of /blog/. Set that as your posts page in Dashboard>>Settings>>Reading.
Export your posts,categories, authors and images from the current blog via http://codex.wordpress.org/Tools_Export_Screen and then import them http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content into the new WP site. You should be able to keep the same structure to your permalinks.
Then, if needed, create static pages to match the current php pages and cut/paste the content into them.
Why wouldn't you just make the primary site URL point to the blog site? Or take a full backup of the blog site and restore it on the main server in doc root? Then add your pages content right in the current blogging site? You can point both www.whateversite.com/blog/ to the posts (blog page) or even blog.whateversite.com to the same.
Seems like a LOT of extra work to setup a new WordPress install then go to a current WordPress install and export the blog posts then re-import just the blog posts.
If you absolutely have a great reason for not just using the current WordPress install and building on that then I suggest you spend the $15 and get VaultPress from the Automattic group and backup the blog site. Then use the restore to alternate URL feature to clone it to a brand new WordPress installation you've started at the new main site. It will restore the content and replace inline URLs for you which is a HUGE time saver.
I've moved / cloned multiple sites this way. It is by far the easiest method, especially if your in-blog URLs need to change from blog.blah.com to www.blah.com.
I have a site with about 15 pages of content, and some 50 pages of php scripts. They are all hosted on my existing hosting which I had for a long time.
What I want to do is use a wordpress template. What will happen to the files on my current hosting? Can they stay as they are? And is the wordpress template essentially just css and some images?
Thanks!
Best is to convert the existing site to a working Wordpress theme.
Existing pages can be made into Page Templates.
If you are using custom functions, etc, you can include them into Functions.php.
Once you have a working theme, install Wordpress on the site's root directory and activate the theme.
I currently have a Magento store where I'm using a CMS page as the homepage. I want to integrate my wordpress blog (hosted on the same server) into this CMS page. It would show the latest blog post and preferably have the comment function available on the front page. The first thing I considered was using the Wordpress Loop on the Magento CMS page, but it doesn't seem like it allows PHP.
One other thought I had was to create the homepage using modules or blocks. To be honest, I've never created a module or block so I'm not all that familiar with what is involved. The CMS page that I had created is simply an image slider/carousel (nivo-slider) and some photos with links. None of the content actually needs to be done with CMS, it just needs to be presented within my Magento theme/framework. All homepage updates will be handled by myself, so I can bypass the CMS system all together and just update modules if it turns out that the modules solution will allow me to have both the Wordpress blog and nivo-slider on the same page.
Any thoughts?
One thing you can try is setting wordpress as the main site and style it to match your magento styling. Then the visitor will have a streamlined experience from a UI standpoint. One gotcha would be if you want comments open on Wordpress then you'd have 2 accounts you'd have to reconcile for wordpress and magento.
I found the solution at Part 2 of the following link:
http://addoa.com/blog/easy-wordpress-and-magento-integration
Here's a quick summary of the steps (for a full explanation, click the link above):
1) Create a bare-bones WordPress theme file that skips all of the styles, header, and footer and just displays content.
2) Create a page in WordPress that uses your new bare-bones template.
3) Create a template file in Magento to embed your newly created WordPress page into a Magento page.
4) Place the block based on your new template on the Magento CMS page you want the blog content to display on
The FishPig extension now supports this functionality so you achieve this by following these steps:
Upgrade to the latest version of FishPig's WordPress Integration
Login to your Magento Admin and go to WordPress > Settings Blog / Plugins
Find the Layout option and set 'Blog as Magento Homepage' to Yes
Save the page and voila, you have it: WordPress as your Magento homepage using your Magento theme in under 2 minutes
You will be wanting the Fishpig integration:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/fishpig/extension/3958/fishpig_wordpress_integration
Not only is it free, it is also actively maintained.
You can also do an Apache redirect for the root/home page to a wordpress page of your choosing. In that way you don't have to have the problem of adding something to the Magento homepage and maybe have something fancy in Wordpress.
hopefully i've understood your question!
the following article may be of help to you (it outlines how to use the fishpig extension and to pull out the latest posts as part of a magento block on your homepage):
adding recent posts to magento homepage
You can also use blog extension of magento.
You can get it free form magento site http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/aheadWorks/extension/1516/blog-extension-by-aheadworks
Thanks