I’ve read some previous postings regarding Wordpress and Freeway (especially the Dec 2009 exchanges) and was wondering if anything has really changed in the past couple of years? Any Freeway/Wordpress actions coming down the pipeline?
I have a client that wants to start a blog in association with her website. I know that Freeway incorporates Blogger quite easily within its page structure via the Insert > Blogger actions and that Wordpress is more technical and requires PHP/MySQL understanding. From my limited Freeway Pro use, I think I’d prefer using Blogger. My client (and friend) thinks Wordpress would better suit her needs.
So here is the thought I had. Set up a Wordpress account (which is supported by her ISP) and simply use the Insert > iFrame action to splice the Wordpress blog into the Freeway site.
Any thoughts, cautions, or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
This will allow the blog to be seen, but only its home page may be
linked to from outside. This will have significant SEO impact, and not
in a nice way.
The fundamental issue with Wordpress and other blog/CMS systems like
it is that Freeway creates pages, and these systems expect page
fragments or “partials” instead. If you understand the programming
language and understand basic programming fundamentals like control
structures and logical flow, then you can use Freeway to generate the
look and feel parts of a Wordpress site; as long as you also use an
Action like my TemplateHelper to carve up the page into the separate
templates, and resign yourself to plenty of further post-processing in
a text editor to fix image and link paths.
But there isn’t a practical way to take a single page or pages in
Freeway, apply a few Actions, and hey, presto! have a Wordpress site.
There’s just this basic mismatch, like AC vs DC, and they don’t play
nicely together without a significantly experienced and motivated
operator to make the translation.
Walter
On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Robert wrote:
So here is the thought I had. Set up a Wordpress account (which is
supported by her ISP) and simply use the Insert > iFrame action to
splice the Wordpress blog into the Freeway site.
How about using an embedded blog in your FW site. Take a look at Pulse CMS - you will need to paste one line of code in your FW page. Here’s a link to Pulse - http://www.pulsecms.com/
So, I’m assuming that Blogger would be the way to go. Am I correct in thinking that Blogger would also maintain ‘happy’ search engine information ( especially with Google as they own it ).
Robert,
I tried your suggestion and I was able bring the wordpress blog into the site, but it could not be sized nor cropped to into a specific area - any suggestions???
Leonard