Hello,
I have my website up and running! Yea!!! For phase 2, I would like to add a WordPress blog.
Can anyone help me do this? Searched these forums and didn’t find much info.
And information or tutorials would be wonderful!
Thanks so much!
Betsy
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A WordPress Blog has to be created in WordPress - a different app altogether from FW.
You may well be able to display a WP Blog page within an iFrame on a FW created page but why would you want to?
Why not just either link to a WordPress page that looks like your FW created site or do the whole site in WP (coz WP is not that easy).
Now if you just want to have a Blog page on your FW site - that is a different thing entirely.
The FW Comments action uses the facilities of Disqus to create a Blog-like experience or you could use a CMS like PulseCMS http://pulsecms.com/ to add a Blog feature to your FW site.
Can you be a bit more specific with what you are trying to achieve?
David
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David,
Thanks for your quick reply!
I have no loyalty to WordPress–I just know a friend who has blogged with all of the platforms and she liked that one the best. I was under the assumption that to have a “blog” you had to use a site like WP, Blogger, ect. ???
Here is my website: ImmaculataDesigns.com
I want to add a blog to have an section of my web that keeps my customers informed on my new projects and other information. I would like it to look like my website or at least be complementary but also look like a typical blog with functions like RSS feeds, comments, etc.
Does that give you enough information? Thanks for your help!!!
Betsy
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Then have a look at Pulse - the Blog feature is used on this site http://www.tardiffphotography.com/
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Thanks! I will check that out.
If anyone has any other information about Pulse I am all ears.
Betsy
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Betsy,
I can’t comment on Pulse as I’ve never used it. But, if you’d like an example of a FreeWay Pro page created using the blogger templates, take a look at http://flowersongherbals.blogspot.com/
I don’t know of an integrated way to use FW and WP together. But I’ve never been very fond of WP so I’ve never tried, either! David knows his stuff, so I’m sure Pulse is another good option.
Good luck,
Doty
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Perch http://grabaperch.com also has a nice blog app. While you can just use the blog feature you will still need to install the complete CMS, which is easy to do. The upside is that if/when you want to start putting pages of your site under Perch control it’s easy to do, even from within FW.
Todd
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Todd and David,
Do either of you know if I insert one of these programs and then go back and modify my website will I loose all of the “blog” information? From what I have read on CMS’s it seems as if this would be true.
Thanks!
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The blog content is stored in a database, be it MySQL or flat-file, and that is separate from the site structure/layout/style. If by “modify” you mean change the look or layout of the site then no, you will not lose any blog content, as long as you continue to use the blog feature.
Todd
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Todd and David,
Do either of you know if I insert one of these programs and then go back and modify my website will I loose all of the “blog” information? From what I have read on CMS’s it seems as if this would be true.
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Thanks for the quick reply Todd! That is good news!
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And just to reiterate what Todd said.
With Pulse - the Blog content is stored in the Pulse files/folders on your server.
The FW page you create has a reference to those files, the content of which is inserted into the FW page when the page is served in the browser.
As long as the reference to the Pulse file remains on your FW page the Blog content will be served.
In this way you can reference the same Blog content on many pages (not sure why you would want to)
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