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• hubb7designs

  So I'm trying to set up a blog that is synced with my clients new site.

  Write now this is what I have:

  www.5creativegroup.com

  What I'm trying to do is have the blog section of the website synced with a Wordpress blog. So that www.5creativegroup.com/blog.html… will have all the wordpress post located there.

  Also, there is a section on the lower left side of the website that has clips of the latest blog post, and I want to sync all the pages to show the latest blog post on there.

  Currently I have downloaded the latest version of Wordpress on to my clients server, but I can't even get the wp-config.php file working right.

  Can anyone offer some help on this?

  Jan 21, 10, 10:12 a.m. – Permalink

• BattleAxe

  RSS feeds from the blog can be added to any page to show the latest posts , once added you can just style them as you wish

  that or re-theme the wordpress installation to match your site

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 10:28 a.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  a blog on wordpress.com and a self-hosted install of wordpress are two completely different and unrelated things. do you want the content on your present wordpress-hosted blog on the site, or do you want to create an entirely new blog on your own server?

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 10:32 a.m. – Permalink

• hubb7designs

  The Wordpress blog is going to be self hosted... it is not a wordpress.com blog.

  Thanks for the tips thus far.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 11 a.m. – Permalink

• hubb7designs

  No help?

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 7:47 p.m. – Permalink

• airey

  not to be too negative but it seems a ridiculous question.

  1: you would make the news / blog section of the site a directory, ie: www.yoursite.com/news

  2: you would install wordpress into this directory and then install a theme or better yet a modified theme that matches the rest of your site so as to not jar the audience visually or navigationally.

  3: then if you want section of the news section to show on other pages like the homepage you would make the homepage php and call in the requirements from the database (which you obviously created prior to when you installed the news section).

  to be frank, it's seems like an incredibly uninformed question that makes you think, "if you don't know these basics there's fuckall we can do to help this guy". again, i'm just stating how the question comes across to me and possibly others (judging by the silence). it may be that the question is just not communicating your needs effectively.

  • and if you need an rss feed, it's automatically created by wp.– airey

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 7:53 p.m. – Permalink

• airey

  also, you can look at flash components that load in the rss fed info to the homepage or other pages.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 7:55 p.m. – Permalink

• airey

  so, looking at the mess you've created, why is there a blog here:
  http://www.5creativegroup.com/bl…

  linking to a blog here:
  http://5creativegroup.wordpress.…

  ?

  • that's why i posted that first response– acescence1/3

    yeah, it's confusing to say the least.– airey2/3

    That blog was created by my client originally, and he wanted to start a new blog that is linked with the site. So for now I just put a hyperlink to his current blog before I have the new blog live within his site.– hubb7designs3/3

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 7:57 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  it appears the site is hosted on godaddy, have you tried this?

  http://help.godaddy.com/article/…

  • This has been done
    – hubb7designs

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 7:57 p.m. – Permalink

• airey

  also also, you can export the database from the first wp blog (the wp hosted one) and import it into the new one using the 'Tool' panel in the wp dashboard.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 7:58 p.m. – Permalink

• hubb7designs

  Airey,

  You have hit it on the head in a sense. I really don't know where to start with #2.

  I have installed Wordpress and what I would like to do is customize the wordpress page to look like the CSS code that I have already set up.... and the problem really lies with my lack of PHP knowledge.

  After I style and have the Wordpress page looking like the current site... then I would like to have the blog section on the other pages automatically updated as new blogs are posted. Someone before stated that adding an RSS feed to the pages would accomplish this...

  I know what I need to look into PHP code and study up on the Wordpress site... but QBN has been very helpful to me in the past so I thought I would reach out to those who have more experience than I do in hopes they would point me in the right direction.

  Thanks for the comment though... sometimes the truth can be taken as negative. But I see if as a positive that you took the time to read and comment.

  Thanks,

  Steve

  • delete the wp hosted one after you export it's contents as a start.– airey1/2

    the import to the self hosted wp.– airey2/2

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 8 p.m. – Permalink

• airey

  you need to look into installing a database on your godaddy hosting and linking the self hosting wp to this. i think this is one step you may not have done, but i could be wrong.

  • Done this– hubb7designs1/2

    +1 > without the DB + DB user created, WP is useless– ntimm2/2

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 8 p.m. – Permalink

• forcetwelve

  just make a new page template called 'blog' and use the index.php for the code (you'll have to put the template tag in the top of this file). then make pages for all the other pages you require and they will use the page.php template.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 8:02 p.m. – Permalink

• hubb7designs

  This is all GREAT advice guys/gals (you never know)

  I think this will get me in the right direction.

  

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  Dog-earJan 21, 10, 8:11 p.m. – Permalink

• hubb7designs

  So I'm bringing this thread back to life for some additional help.

  I have created the Blog page, and i have the blog page set up and running through Wordpress.

  Now I'm trying to have the first 3 blog post show on the bottom of the site.

  How do I go about doing this?

  I have tried putting the header.php code in my index.html page, but that didn't grab the post.

  Suggestions?

  

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  Dog-earMay 10, 10, 4:05 p.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  Wow. This thread is incredible. I'll leave it at that.

  

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  Dog-earMay 10, 10, 4:10 p.m. – Permalink