Installing wordpress as news

[wilee]

Hey guys,

Hows things, I have a question, I have installed wordpress on static php sites in the past, can I use the same methods for doing it with sites hosted here? I dont mind having the main site here, its pnly a small site, I just want my news section to be wordpress is that ok?

Cheers

[RobertPAS]

You'd be able to set this up with your main site built & hosted here, and the wordpress news section being hosted on your own private/3rd party web server that's running PHP. You'd hypothetically have the same or similar layout between the two so the end user experience is contiguous.

The most difficult part of this approach is having to maintain a member's signed in status between the two domains (optional). A common methodology to achieve this is to make sure the "login" action on either domain sets the cookies on both domains, and "logout" links on either domain sign a user out on both domains. (Perhaps using a redirecting scheme or synchronous ajax call)

Many community members have experience working on these sort of integrations. As always, we're here to help if you get stuck.