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Ask HN: What's the simplest way to integrate a blog onto my website?

2 points by edwardy20 12y ago

The blog doesn't need any fancy features, but should fit in with the look of the website. Should I customize Wordpress or is there an easier way I'm missing?

davidlumley 12y ago
I've used Tumblr, Wordpress, and Jekyll. My preference is Jekyll, as I find it the easiest to use and can be served very cheaply via S3.
- athesyn 12y ago
  How is it easier to use than Tumblr, where there is virtually no setup involved (besides pointing a domain to your blog perhaps, and it's completely free).
- IluvJekyll6969 12y ago
  Or better yet Github pages for free!
henrixd 12y ago
I think, short term easiest and most flexible would be to just write HTML. Long term it would be best to just make it right. I'm little surprised that there is not any copy paste solutions (with ads maybe). I guess most are going with Wordpress. I may have to change that..
subverting 12y ago
cutephp.com Very light, very easy to integrate into your web-pages. A nice publishing / admin centre, highly recommended for your needs here.
OedipusRex 12y ago
If you have a pre-exisiting website I would suggest you run a blog.xyz.com. You can choose any blog platform you want, personally I use Ghost. http://www.ghost.org http://www.ghost.org
- thenomad 12y ago
  There are rather good SEO reasons not to do that - specifically, if the blog becomes popular, the search engine ranking won't translate to the main site if the blog's on a separate subdomain. www.foo.com/blog/ is almost always a better idea than blog.foo.com unless you don't care about organic traffic.
rachelandrew 12y ago
I'm one of the founders of Perch CMS (http://grabaperch.com http://grabaperch.com) which has a blog add-on. One of our core features is that you can drop Perch and any of the apps into an existing website - without needing to put the entire site into a theme etc. So it's a different approach to something like WordPress. The video tutorial takes you through a full install of Perch for content management but the videos towards the end cover dropping in the blog app and customizing templates http://docs.grabaperch.com/video/tutorials/swift/ http://docs.grabaperch.com/video/tutorials/swift/
Mimu 12y ago
Easiest way would be Tumblr I think. Write there, use the API to retrieve your posts and display it the way you like. Might be more tricky to use everything (comments, posts and stuff) from your website though, never tried it.

2 points by edwardy20 12y ago

The blog doesn't need any fancy features, but should fit in with the look of the website. Should I customize Wordpress or is there an easier way I'm missing?

davidlumley 12y ago

I've used Tumblr, Wordpress, and Jekyll. My preference is Jekyll, as I find it the easiest to use and can be served very cheaply via S3.

athesyn 12y ago
How is it easier to use than Tumblr, where there is virtually no setup involved (besides pointing a domain to your blog perhaps, and it's completely free).
IluvJekyll6969 12y ago
Or better yet Github pages for free!

henrixd 12y ago

I think, short term easiest and most flexible would be to just write HTML. Long term it would be best to just make it right. I'm little surprised that there is not any copy paste solutions (with ads maybe). I guess most are going with Wordpress. I may have to change that..

subverting 12y ago

cutephp.com Very light, very easy to integrate into your web-pages. A nice publishing / admin centre, highly recommended for your needs here.

OedipusRex 12y ago

If you have a pre-exisiting website I would suggest you run a blog.xyz.com. You can choose any blog platform you want, personally I use Ghost. http://www.ghost.org http://www.ghost.org

thenomad 12y ago
There are rather good SEO reasons not to do that - specifically, if the blog becomes popular, the search engine ranking won't translate to the main site if the blog's on a separate subdomain. www.foo.com/blog/ is almost always a better idea than blog.foo.com unless you don't care about organic traffic.

rachelandrew 12y ago

I'm one of the founders of Perch CMS (http://grabaperch.com http://grabaperch.com) which has a blog add-on. One of our core features is that you can drop Perch and any of the apps into an existing website - without needing to put the entire site into a theme etc. So it's a different approach to something like WordPress. The video tutorial takes you through a full install of Perch for content management but the videos towards the end cover dropping in the blog app and customizing templates http://docs.grabaperch.com/video/tutorials/swift/ http://docs.grabaperch.com/video/tutorials/swift/

Mimu 12y ago

Easiest way would be Tumblr I think. Write there, use the API to retrieve your posts and display it the way you like. Might be more tricky to use everything (comments, posts and stuff) from your website though, never tried it.