23_08_2008

How to Integrate a WordPress Blog into Your existing Web Site – Part One

Scrawled by Ian | WordPress Tips

This is the first in a short series of posts that will help guide you through the process of integrating a WordPress blog into your existing Web site.

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this site, integrating a WordPress blog into your existing site is a great way to add new, relevant and timely content to your site. And thanks to the flexibility of WordPress Themes you can make the blog look exactly like your existing site.

The good news is that integrating a WordPress blog into your existing Web site is relatively straight forward and can be done in just 5 steps:

  1. Checking Your Web Hosts Has the WordPress Pre-Requisites Installed
  2. Installing WordPress On Your Web Server
  3. Creating Your WordPress Theme
  4. Uploading Your Theme
  5. Adding Links to Your Web site

Some of these steps are a little more convoluted and time consuming so require a bit more explanation than others – hence, the series of posts – but I really can’t impress enough how easy it really is to integrate a WordPress blog.

In this post, the first part of the series, I’ll cover step one – checking your Web host has the WordPress pre-requisites installed.

Checking Your Web Hosts Has the WordPress Pre-Requisites Installed

Although WordPress is an extremely powerful Web publishing tool it only needs 2 pieces of software to allow it to work. And if you want to run WordPress you need to check that your Web host has these pre-requisites installed on their server.

The chances are your host does have the WordPress pre-requisites installed on their servers – both pieces of software are free to use and extremely popular with Web hosts. In fact, you’ll be hard pushed to find a Web Host that doesn’t have the WordPress pre-reqs installed.

However, the bottom line is: if you’re unlucky enough to be with a Web host that doesn’t have the WordPress pre-requisites installed then you can’t use WordPress. At least you can’t integrate WordPress into your existing site without either changing Web host or hosting your WordPress blog on a different host to your main site.

The easiest way to check if your host meets the pre-reqs, fairly obviously, is on their Web site but if you’re unsure whether your Web host has the pre-requisites installed drop them a quick e-mail (those lovely folks at WordPress have created an e-mail template for you) telling them you want to use WordPress and asking if that’s possible.

Although this is an easy step to complete, and maybe an obvious one too, the time to do it is now – before you go on to do any of the time consuming steps.

Next Part

In the next part of my WordPress Integration How To I’ll be talking you through the process of installing WordPress on your Web server.

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  1. Bill Bartmann wrote on the 03_09_2008

    Excellent site, keep up the good work

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