Wordpress Trouble

BlueSteele

BlueSteele

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Hey folks -

Built a simple wp blog...have a website hosted by citymax, a watered down make your own website builder (html isnt my strong suit) and I want to bring my wp blog into my website. I tried to use feedburner, and through that in my page code but it looks like crap. Id like to pull in the right menu bar from wp as well...

Any help would be very much appreciated,

Thanks.
 


BlueSteele said:
Hey folks -

Built a simple wp blog...have a website hosted by citymax, a watered down make your own website builder (html isnt my strong suit) and I want to bring my wp blog into my website. I tried to use feedburner, and through that in my page code but it looks like crap. Id like to pull in the right menu bar from wp as well...

Any help would be very much appreciated,

Thanks.
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Not 100% sure what you want to do, but here's what we've got so far. You went to hxxp://www.citymax.com/pricing.htm and paid $19.98 per month as your web hosting provider. At another point you went to hxxp://wordpress.com/ and created a free Wordpress blog. Now you want to display that blog on your Citymax website.

Alternate version is that you used Citymax to create both a blog and a website and are having problems with formatting the layout of the blog. You might want to send a quick note to Citymax support and ask them about hxxp://www.citymaxblog.com. Since that is a Wordpress blog, ask them how to get the same thing on your site. Or you could setup a subdomain like hxxp://blog.example.com that simply redirects your existing Wordpress blog to the subdomain of your Citymax website.

If you could clarify I'm sure someone will chime in with better suggestions.
 
Sorry everyone, I wrote the question soon as I woke up...

To clarify. I have built a website with host citymax.com. see: www.nightlitemedia.com (dont make fun I suck at building websites haha)

In an effort to pump up my SEO, I have decided to build a blog, however citymax unlike many other hosts, do not have a blog template to just pop in to a page. THUS, I sent them a note asking if I could build a wp blog, and have it feed my webpage.

They came back saying that I could make the wp blog, grab the url and drop it into google feed burner which spits out some script to place on my webpage. Similar to a rss feed I gather...

In any event, I did this and it looks like shit. I basically just grabs the text of each post and puts it on my page...not exactly aesthetically pleasing.

Now what I would like to see is my web page adopt the look of my wp blog...ie pull in the blog posts with the dates etc along with the widgets on the right (authors, word cloud, articles, topics etc).

Here is an example of a page that I believe is doing just that, but I dont know how. CMAEON - Beyond CRM Solutions, Contact Management Software, E-Mail Marketing for Mortgage, Real Estate & Pharmacy

I apologize if I am asking alot, Ill do my best to pay it forward.

Thanks.
 
What I would do personally, is use a host that allows you to install Wordpress (if citymax doesnt) and build the whole site on Wordpress as a CMS. Build a custom theme, use pages for all your site content, and use posts to build out your blog content. It sounds harder than it is. If you have some familiarity with HTML / CSS you should be able to figure it out pretty quickly. These links should get you started in the right direction

How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial

WPDesigner.com So you want to create WordPress themes huh?

If you have any WP specific questions, just post here. Lots of people with loads of WP experience floating around. Good luck bros.
 
Really appreciate your advice...my end goal was to get going on WP anyways so what better time then now : )

Some late nights ahead, haha.

Thanks again!

ps. in the meantime, if anyone has any quick temporary solutions, please let me know : )
 
BlueSteele said:
Really appreciate your advice...my end goal was to get going on WP anyways so what better time then now : )

Some late nights ahead, haha.

Thanks again!

ps. in the meantime, if anyone has any quick temporary solutions, please let me know : )
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Sure man, good luck.

Quick and dirty - Map a Subdomain Support — WordPress.com

Call it blog.yourdomain.com , link to it in your nav and done.
 
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