Thread: Including wordpress in Content Management System & access to Hosting

Hi,

I have a couple of questions regarding whats normal in from a CMS provider. We have a company website with an irish CMS company... They are normally very helpful but I want to now install a wordpress blog as part of the website (not as a separate site or subdomain). My CMS people say this is not possible...why not? Are they just being awkward? I really want it to be a part of the website...

also when I was looking into getting Wordpress I heard that hosting 365 have an option to install wordpress quite simply on their control panel. Our CMS people set us up with them but we never had the logon details... I asked them for the logon info during the wordpress conversation and was told that they never give customers these details... Are we really not meant to have this info?

Thanks in advance...

Originally Posted by swissalarm

was told that they never give customers these details... Are we really not meant to have this info?

You might want to read your contract's fine print... I've no idea what you agreed to with them

A lot of hosts offer easy install options for Wordpress and other blogging software and even if they didn't it's not that hard to install anyway ...

Related to easy integration within the original website is not really possible as Wordpress works differently and is not that easy to customised as anytime it gets upgraded all the custom features are overwritten.
If you really want someone to do that for you, prepare yourself for a high bill.

You shouldn't have a problem installing it. Your provider might be just being awkward in terms of how they are set up. They might have your code along with loads of other sites code all in the same directory so giving you access to install (or even them doing it) wouldn't be viable. Or maybe they don't want you to have access to the code running the site.

What you could do is ask them for a seperate sub domain, e.g. blog.yoursite.com and run it under that. Personally I don't like that route as any inlinks you get to your blog would be attributed to blog.yoursite.com but if it was in a sub folder called yoursite.com/blog/ your main site may see benefit. What's your website or who is the provider? With that info, it might explain why they won't do it. PM me if you don't want to make public.

@Louie: why isn't it really possible? I've done it a few times now and it's not that difficult. You take the header and footer from the main site, add that to the sandbox theme, add some custom css and away you go. Any updates from wordpress can be installed without any hassle. I'm not sure what you mean by custom features getting overwritten... why would they need to customise it beyond the standard files and a few plugins? Maybe I'm missing something!

Rgds, Dave

To design a template in the package folder is fairly simple, but getting existing customers access to the wordpress blog with the existing data is not (username, password, email, etc...).

thanks for your replies - still a little confused! I will PM you now Dave thanks..

It is worth reading every detail of a blog host's contract. I blog as a hobby to upload photos and to share useful links to what I have learned while surfing the Net. However, employers are becoming increasingly concerned about what might link to their sites, in case of litigation and privacy issues. This, considering the current climate of Net ambiguity is wise. Blogger has started making thumbnails of some of my photos and adding copyright notices to them, so I think that Wordpress is now a better choice as a blogging platform, in my case. However, there are more serious situations that could develop, as I found when I read this blog: The Muqata: Israeli Court Limits Blogs Freedom of Speech Making a case for a Wordpress blog in the workplace could take time, Swissalarm. Why not start your own personal blog and work on it until it takes on the shape that you think your employer would appreciate. Then, faced with a "fait accompli" you will own your own work and can offer to allow them to use it for a fee?

For ideas, this might be useful: Techtree.com India > Columns and for copyright issues, this might be of general guidance, though laws vary from one country to the next: Due Diligence for Copyright Lawyers & Legal Information

This thread is full of useful questions, so it may be worth while bumping it?

Originally Posted by Anouilh

This thread is full of useful questions, so it may be worth while bumping it?

Err no.