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The right way to add a blog to my site?

by jwenberg
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Hey everyone, I'm trying to add a blog section to my site for seo purposes, and I'm just a little confused on the correct way to do this. It's a wordpress based site already. Should I just create a new tab and put all my "blog" posts on that page, or should I install a whole separate wordpress installation at website.com/blog? I'm a little confused on what would be the right way to do this. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author himanuzo
    If your blog - Wordpress - is on www (.) yourdomain (.) com/blog, what software is in your homepage?

    Why not install Wordpress into your homepage - www (.) yourdomain (.) com?
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    • Profile picture of the author kickmoney
      If you're site is already wordpress based then you must have static page set as home page.

      If you want to have blog section. Simply make a new page called "blog" or news or something.

      Then go to Settings >> Reading

      And then from the reading page set "posts page" to the new page that you made.

      Doing a completely new installation in a sub folder or using WPMU is unnecessary..
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  • Profile picture of the author jwenberg
    Yes wordpress is installed at Voice Over Talent | Sales Video | Audiobook Builder as my main site. I'm just wondering for adding a blog do I just create a new page in that site and title it blog, or do I need to create a whole separate installation of wp at contentbyjeff.com/blog?
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    • Profile picture of the author connorbringas
      Originally Posted by jwenberg View Post

      Yes wordpress is installed at Voice Over Talent | Sales Video | Audiobook Builder as my main site. I'm just wondering for adding a blog do I just create a new page in that site and title it blog, or do I need to create a whole separate installation of wp at contentbyjeff.com/blog?
      Nice hyperlink..I would just make it mywebsite.com/blog. Make sure you create a google+ authorship on your blog as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author movielinks
      Originally Posted by jwenberg View Post

      Yes wordpress is installed at Voice Over Talent | Sales Video | Audiobook Builder as my main site. I'm just wondering for adding a blog do I just create a new page in that site and title it blog, or do I need to create a whole separate installation of wp at contentbyjeff.com/blog?
      You don't need to install another wordpress if you are already using it (for your website). Follow these steps to install blog section in your wordpress site
      Step1.
      Install custom post type plugin
      Step2.
      Give it desired name (E.g. News, Blog etc)
      Step3.
      Implement Page template for your blog and fetch your blog posts

      Cheers!
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  • Profile picture of the author jwenberg
    Hey guys thanks for the tips on this. I created the blog page and directed posts to that page. First thing, I tried a test post and the permalink just went to website/page title instead of website/blog/title any ideas how to fix that? Then also there's some weird thing on the new page I created that I have no idea how to get rid of. I didn't install that so I'm assuming it must be something having to do with the template...however when I install the template originally I never saw this either, so I'm not sure where it's coming from. Any ideas on these two things?
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  • Profile picture of the author kickmoney
    Dude. My bad. It's an easy fix.
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  • Profile picture of the author kickmoney
    Go back to the beginning before I told you to do anything.

    I.E. go to settings>>reading and set your home page back to latest posts

    Then...

    Edit the page that you have made for your blog page.

    go to Template underneath Page Attributes and select "Blog (full posts)"

    As in pic below



    My bad. I was being a little lazy.

    You'll be all sweet now.

    And if you want to get rid of the wordpress and theme credit links in the footer.

    Go to Theme>>Edit>>footer.php

    And remove the following php code

    <a href="<?php echo esc_url(__('http://themeid.com/responsive-theme/','responsive')); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e('Responsive Theme', 'responsive'); ?>">
    <?php printf('Responsive Theme'); ?></a>
    <?php esc_attr_e('powered by', 'responsive'); ?> <a href="<?php echo esc_url(__('http://wordpress.org/','responsive')); ?>" title="<?php esc_attr_e('WordPress', 'responsive'); ?>">
    <?php printf('WordPress'); ?></a>
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  • Profile picture of the author jwenberg
    So I just checked something out. That thing I can't get rid of on the blog page only comes into play when I set the reading settings to display posts on whatever page it may be. Then it's like it's overwritten with that stuff.
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    • Profile picture of the author kickmoney
      So let me get this straight.

      You have set your homepage to latest posts in reading settings?

      You have set the page attributes templates to (blog full posts) on the new blog page?

      Because I have it installed locally and I can do it fine.
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      • Profile picture of the author DynoMutt
        jwenberg, has the issue been resolved yet?

        I tested what you're trying to do with a site of mine and everything is working for me.
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        • Profile picture of the author jwenberg
          Ah man, why is this not working. The only thing I can think is the home page is set to static and posts go to blog. That's how I need it to show up, but if that's what you guys are doing, I have no idea why this wouldn't be working. Right now my settings under the reading tab are Front page displays - A static page (which is my home page) and post page: blog. Is that what you guys are running?
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          • Profile picture of the author DynoMutt
            For the test I did, here's how I set it up:

            Created a page entitled "Blog"
            The template is Blog (full posts)

            and for the reading section, I left it as "Your latest posts"
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          • Profile picture of the author kickmoney
            Originally Posted by jwenberg View Post

            Ah man, why is this not working. The only thing I can think is the home page is set to static and posts go to blog. That's how I need it to show up, but if that's what you guys are doing, I have no idea why this wouldn't be working. Right now my settings under the reading tab are Front page displays - A static page (which is my home page) and post page: blog. Is that what you guys are running?
            Bolded is your problem. That's how it usually works. But not with the theme you are using.

            lol

            Read this carefully.

            1. set homepage to latest blog posts
            2. go to your blogpage and click edit
            3. reference the picture I posted earlier. On the right hand side underneath the blue update button there is a box that says Page Attributes. Within that box there is a drop down menu entitled "Templates"...click it and select "blog (full posts)" and then hit update on the page.
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