integrate WP blog on html site into new WP site?

it’s worth considering exporting posts from your current blog and importing them into the new wp install

then you can classify them and all your old post and your new posts can reside in the same wp backend

Thanks for replying. Will that allow the old posts to have their old URLs, facebook likes, etc?

if the actual URL of the post is moving, facebook won’t know to associate the old like with the new page

if you’re trying to preserve the old urls, you could do that with either a page named “blog” that containted the old blog posts (limited to the old blog category)

or you could run nested wordpress, preserving your old install in it’s location and putting the new one up one level

if it was me i’d explore the /blog as a page that does a category view… you should be able to test and compare urls to ensure they stayed the same

Thanks. I’ve exported my old posts and imported them to the new.domain.com install, and they actually show up with their embedded media — even though those seem to be still living where they were, ie not duplicated. (If they’ve been copied to the new WP, I don’t know where to find them.) However the ‘featured images’ are now missing. Does that mean I have to import them all over again to the new WP?

Re your suggestion for a ‘page’ named ‘blog’, do you mean a ‘category’ named ‘blog’? I’ve set the permalinks on the new WP to domain.com/category/postname, and I’ve allocated my imported old posts to the category ‘blog’, so they now show up as new.domain.com/blog/postname. I’m hoping that when I finally ‘remove’ the ‘new.’ from the subdomain (= the new WP install becomes domain.com), then facebook will recognize the URLs and maintain the likes.

When that happens, can I delete the old WP? I think these 2 installs are taking me way over my space allowance on my host.

when you did your import, did you also import the media? if so the featured images *should* still be there. did other media get imported successfully to your new media library?

yes you are correct, a category named blog with a category page

post cutover, if all is well, you can delete the old install

*take a backup first though! and pre-launch too!

I don’t _think_ I imported the media. I mean, they show up, but they aren’t in the new WP media pane. I think they show up because the posts contain the URLs of the media in the older WP install, which is still active.

I installed a Featured Image Exporter plugin in the older WP and exported an xml file. But I can’t import them into the newer WP. Any ideas, short of importing them by hand?

you’re totally right on if the old url is active that it’ll still render

personally, i’d dump my content
re-export from source site, choosing “all content”
re-import

there is an option during import to “download files attached to posts” which should add them to your media

if still no, maybe play around with this plugin, which is old but *might* run, take a backup first ??