Integrating your site's theme with a wordpress blog
 

I have worked on wordpress blogs standalone, but never integrated them with an existing site. I now want to do this and have installed WP to a subdirectory. Does anyone know the best way to have it work within your x-cart site's theme?

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You need to skin the blog - create a custom theme.

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I've seen people try and load wordpress database into x-cart to use the x-cart layout but I've never seen it done well. Like Padraic said skin the wordpress simlarly, or use an x-cart specific blog software.

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Like the one in Jon's signature ;)

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Like ours but there are others :D

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Here's an easy way

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Thanks PhilJ you are the only man for the support of forum such a simple way.

Thanks a lot.

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If I install it in subdomain that is in blog.mydomain .com can I able to do it?

All of the values stored in x cart database?

Thank you.

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Just change the path to your blog in blog.tpl

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Thanks for your reply.I have installed it on different database rather than x cart will it create any problem?
Everything works perfect except display.When I see http://www.health-shoppe.com/blog.php then entire blog site will display in a small window after making scrolling="yes".How to make it full screen in help page also it will not display in IE.

Waiting for your reply.

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Any Solution PhilJ to display the blog quite large on our site?

Please help me to do that.

Thanks for your previous help.

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If your using a blog to help search engine results you don't want to display it in an iframe. Here's what Google says about iframes (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72746#4):

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Hi Jon then how to solve this with PhilJ's Mod???

Any solution without using iFrames??

You say-make sure to provide additional text-based links to the content they display, so that Googlebot can crawl and index this content--What do you mean to say?? what else to be done??

Please help me to do that.

Thanks.

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Jon how to solve it without using iFrames so that google indexing will be better??

Wait for your reply.

Regards.

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I think the quickest and most SEO-friendly solution is to just have a standalone blog. Skin it to match your site somewhat and make sure that it's easy to get back to the main site. I thought about making it match EXACTLY my main site but it's too much work. You can see what I did at my site in my signature. Blog link is in the speedbar.

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Any Solution PhilJ that Jon say??

Thanks.

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To include one page onto another without the use of iframes, you're left with php require/include. Bunch of problems would arrise from that due to conflicting function names unless wordpress has prefixed all of the functions and such.

If you just skin your blog to mimic your main site, it will give you much more extensibility. Sure it'll be a pain, but if you need extra functions then it could be accomplished with one of the many mods for wordpress.

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So Tal what is the solution? How to integrate it on x cart?

Thanks for your support.

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If you want to actually put wordpress into x-cart, then you would have to make everything work. Php session ID, cookies, login, registration etc.

If you skin wordpress to look like your site, then you can simply make a bridge which would do the same thing as integration (except for possibly registration and login), but you can still use wordpress mods without needing to worry too much on it destroying your site.


If you don't know PHP and MySQL intricately, you won't be able to bridge/integrate it. That would require a mod developer to make.
Best off just making it look like your site.

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Of course skinning Wordpress is the most ideal method, but not everyone knows how.

Regards SEO, just submit your main blog URL individually, it will still get indexed by Google. Ensure you have an Google sitemap for the blog, plenty of plugins for that.

I doubt the fact you are using it inside an iframe will make much difference. As I said, my method's just a quick way of doing it.

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Any solution finally to solve the iframe issue for better google indexing???

PhilJ what is your suggestion??

Tal and Jon what to do finally??

Thanks.

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Just use wordpress and skin it to look like x-cart, or use Jons Mod.

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AShley,Tal what you suggest PhilJ's free mod will not work fine and create problem for google indexing???

What is your suggestion??

Any free mods like PhilJ's???

Thanks for your suggestion.

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Tried google?

http://www.arscommunity.com/wiki/articles/x-cart-wordpress-integration