WordPress Blog as just a section of a website

  • Hi everyone.

    I’m setting up a multilingual website to advertise some services I’m providing as a freelance and I’d like to include a blog to publish articles related to my fields and attract visitors even when they’re not really interested in buying.

    The blog would be just a part of the website (and there would be a blog in italian and another one in english), so is it possible to include a wordpress-based blog in an xhtml website? I mean, just as a section of the website, keeping the general layout with a banner and a main navigation bar at the top?

    Thanks a lot to everyone,
    Rocco.

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Yes, but it’s much more difficult to design your site that way. Designing your site as a WordPress theme would be far simpler, and allow you to manage your entire site from within WordPress, instead of only one small part of it.

    Thread Starter roccobarbi

    (@roccobarbi)

    Well, it surely is, but I always liked working with good old html.

    Anyway I’ll probably begin with a simpler version, designing my site with wordpress except for two exceptions:

    • the home page, that will contain only a javascript redirect to the proper site (italian or english).
    • The landing pages for adwords, that should have a different layout and less links to take the visitor only when I want him/her to by.

    Then I’ll design a more complex version, uploading it only when it’s ready.

    So I need just a last advice. I already wrote to my hosting service, which is external, that assured me wordpress is supported. But… if I have just one sql database, can I istall two different wordpress sites at different locations of the same domain (domain/it/ and domain/en/)?

    Thanks,
    Rocco.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    But… if I have just one sql database, can I istall two different wordpress sites at different locations of the same domain (domain/it/ and domain/en/)?

    Yes. Just install them both in the same database, but give them different prefixes. There’s a place in the config file that you define the prefix (it defaults to “wp_”). Change it to something custom on each install.

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