How do you insert an existing WordPress blog into a different website?

  • Hi there,

    I have searched the forums long and hard but still no luck :(. I am currently creating a website for someone to use as their biography site. The person I am creating it for has a WordPress blog on his own company’s website. He has asked me if I am able to incorporate his blog, that he currently updates through his WordPress dashboard, into the site I am creating for him. He would like his blog to update on my site, as well as his companies when he edits it in the dashboard. Any ideas on how to do this????

    I am fairly new to WordPress and have created a WordPress site but now I am stuck. I’m used to building sites with simply HTML and CSS on Dreamweaver – so all this is pretty new to me.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Here is the link to the blog I am trying to incorporate into my website – https://www.parklanechampagne.co.uk/alastairschampagneblog/

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  • See Integrating_Wordpress_with_Your_Website.

    Thread Starter tomnisbet

    (@tomnisbet)

    Thanks for your reply esmi!! I have looked at this help file, however all I simply want to do is clone his orignal blog onto the new website whilst the original one remains? Is this possible? Just so when he edits the blog on the WP dashboard changes are reflected on both the original blog and the identical blog on my site?

    If this is possible I would be so happy!!

    Thanks for your help, Tom

    Thread Starter tomnisbet

    (@tomnisbet)

    Also I don’t know whether this makes any difference but I have successfully created a WP site for the original WP blog to be clonned into!?

    Cheers, Tom

    You asked how to incorporate the site – not clone it. You could try connecting your site to his database but, if that’s not possible, the only other option would be to pull the full RSS feed from his site into yours.

    Thread Starter tomnisbet

    (@tomnisbet)

    Sorry about the confusion in my post. Yes I want to clone it. Is there a tutorial on how to connect an external site to an existing websites database??

    I have tried embedding the blog using rss feeds but I just don’t get the correct formatting that is similar to the real blog. I find that I get the titles and text, but as for the images they are all over the place! Do you know the best way to embed rss feeds?? As I have only been using sites like rssinlcude.com and these show poor results.

    Is there a tutorial on how to connect an external site to an existing websites database?

    Not that I know. It really depends if the relevant host will even allow external connections.

    Is your site using WordPress?

    Thread Starter tomnisbet

    (@tomnisbet)

    Oright Ok. Yes my site is completely built using WordPress if that helps at all???

    It would be so good if the blog can just be cloned allowing him to go into his dashboard and make changes that refelct on both blogs!

    And yes i’m not sure the host will allow external connections. I’ll have to check this with the web pros that built his companies site.

    You can’t clone a blog unless both blogs use the same database & tables.

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