Integrating a Blog (.asp)
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- WhiteFace
I'm looking for a simple way to integrate a blog onto a sub-domain for a client. I've looked into Blogger but it looks like all you can do is re-direct you domain name to point at your blog which is a bit shit.
Ideally I want to keep the template I have for the site and display the blog posts within a div on the page, is this possible? Can you use wordpress with .asp for this sort of thing, I've goggled it but can't find any decent info on it.
Thanks in advance.
- jetSkii0
you can also re-direct to a sub-domain
- WhiteFace0
@jetSkii - surely that would still just re-direct to the blog page though (eg http://test.blogspot.com/) Whereas I want to extract the posts from the blog and add them to a page of my own
- ahli0
sounds like you want to parse the rss for the blog and output the contents the <div>
- WhiteFace0
Bingo, thanks anli.
Do you know if there are any downsides to doing this (apart from the obvious duplicate content thing)
- ahli0
None that I've encountered. Make sure the host site for the blog allows hot linking of images.
it might be tricky to get the script running *just* how you want it.
- vaxorcist0
iframe kludge-o-matic may work...
using asp to parse rss is something I did years ago, found it rather tweeky/easily broken when I found oddball characters pasted in from MS-Word by client staff who admin the blog side of things..... maybe it's improved... I found filtering crap characters easy in PHP but no so easy in ASP
- vaxorcist0
you may know this, but here's an approach:
1. host wordpress blog on a unix/linux/php server, use a subdomain
2. write RSS parsing script on your ASP machine to read stuff from the wordpress websiteor
2. modify template of blog to add a page with only the content you want on your asp page, formatted exactly, then use an iframe on the asp code to include the modified blog stuff in a box on your page.
- vaxorcist0
you can use subtext, a windows blogging engine too... or wordpress on a windows host, but less easy than a unix host...