[UPHPU] Best way to incorporate blog into web site

[Joseph Scott]

On Oct 6, 2008, at 7:58 PM, MilesTogoe wrote:

> okay, we really want to have a company blog as part of our website  
> and looking for advice as to the best way to do it.  I guess there  
> are options:
> 1) build the website around the blog (ie use something like  
> wordpress and have the blog dominate - a la tompeters.com
> 2) insert the blog into the web page (not really sure how to do this)
> 3) have blog on separate linked page and use blog software or  
> service (wordpress, blogspot)
> 4) build own blog as a separate page on the site using php or rails  
> or python - this seems like what 37signals is doing with their  
> signals vs noise blog (one of my favorites)



When using WordPress there's another version as well.  You can use the  
Pages feature of WP for the non-blog content and optionally set the  
front page of the site to be either the blog, or one of the Pages.   
This allows for example.com to show a Page and example.com/blog/ to  
show the blog content.  Essentially you'd be using WP as a CMS at that  
point.  There are a couple of settings at Settings -> Reading (Front  
page displays) that controls how this works.

I think the core decision on wether this is a reasonable alternative  
for you is if you are comfortable putting all of your content in WP.

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Joseph Scott
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