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adding a blog page

by Joanne D
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Hi all,

I would like to add a blog to my authority website www.dogaffect.com. Is it better to add a blog to WP (if this is possible)- as in www.dogaffect.com/blog or
is it better to have a separate domain name with a link to it on the website?

If www.dogaffect.com/blog is better, how do I go about setting this up?

Thanks
#adding #blog #page
  • Profile picture of the author Mohsin Rasool
    Hi Joanne,

    I see you have already good Wordpress blog being used as Magazine site.
    Now you want to have a blog in its pure form

    There could be two ways to go:

    1. For this i suggest...
    Create a Category in the Blog called: Blog
    and put each entry you want to sown in blog in this category.
    Now in Menu Manager add a link to link this category: "blog"

    2. Other way could be .. installing NEW wordpress at /blog folder
    but it will be lot of work and there will now two wordpress installs
    to manage...plus you will have to take care of new blog's design to
    match to current site....


    Again i recommend #1 method as it is easy to go and it will nicely fit
    in your current blog/site.

    Regards,
    Mohsin
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  • Profile picture of the author xtrapunch
    You are already using WordPress. So you can create two pages--one called home and the other blog. Now. go to Settings-> Reading and choose "static home page option" and set the "Home" page as your home page as "Blog" as your bog page. The home page will now show a static page. If you want to populate it automatically, you will have to make some tweaks and create a template for use with the "Home" page.

    PS: Plz don't use the two methods mentioned in an earlier reply. Neither of them is the correct way of doing this. No offence, Mohsin.
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  • Profile picture of the author mumbi
    its always better to have separate domain name..
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