Hi - I would like to add a wordpress blog into my client's HTML website. I am not too worried about how it looks (easy enough to get the appearance close), but I need a way to get back and forth between the blog and other pages on the static site. I would like to make it possible for a user to navigate back to any page on the site seemlessly. Can this be done and if so how does one do it? thanks
Upload Wordpress to a directory (e.g. /blog/), install, and then link the blog on the static website. Link the static website on Wordpress. It's as simple as that.
First, you'd need to install WordPress, most likely in a /blog directory. Then create a theme for the blog that looks very similar to the HTML site. Make sure that you include a Home link in the navigation that leads to the home page of the main site. Then, you'll need to add a Blog link to your main navigation on the HTML site. So if you have a navigation bar in the header, you'd add a link like this: <a href="http://www.mysite.com/blog">Blog</a> Code (markup): If you you built the HTML site using a Dynamic Web Template, then you just need to add the link to the navigation in the site master template. Or if you use server site includes, you'lll just need to add the link to the navigation or header file, for example. If you built each page entirely by itself, then you'll need to edit each page of the HTML site.
This is what I am in the process of doing also by adding a blog to just a static XHTML site. These recommendations are very useful... So I guess if you want your blog to have the same template as the static XHTML site then the blog has to be coded exact as the static template...
First you need download wordpress from wordpress.com then upload in your blog folder then have to extract now open your blog URL in browser then follow step they will ask for database details. Now link your blog url in your static html page
just add links on your wordpress and your website. it's easy. But you need to make your own wordpress template if you want your wp to look similar as your site,
Yes, making the wordpress template to appear exact in visual appearance as the static XHTML/CSS layout - can this be achieved spot on by having the layout coded in Wordpress or will there be some minor alignment difference? If you want to make an additional blog page in a static XHTML site using wordpress will the layout be exactly the same when navigating through the static site pages v's the blog layout integrated with wordpress or will it show some minor alignment difference? That's the question that has been bugging me for ages...