How easy to integrate wordpress into your site?

Hi, I've got a blog:

https://greyaliengames.wordpress.com/

but it's on the wordpress site and I'd prefer it to be on www.greyaliengames.com for speed and so I can tweak it more etc. Anyone know how easy this is for a relative web novice like me?

Also I heard that it's worth getting a separate domain for the blog so that you can link blog to site and vice versa for better google rank...any thoughts on this?

thanks in advance for any advice, links etc...

Those free wordpress accounts have the option to import / export posts and comments (in XML).

So providing your greyaliengames.com web hosting package has PHP and MySQL then it'll be easy to download, install and import your data.

If you've never install something like this before then read the installation instructions as they will tell you to CHMOD certain files and folder after uploading to your site. I assume you are familiar with CHMODing as most "relative web novice's" should be :)

+ Yes, once you host wordpress yourself you can integrate it will other stuff no problems.

It's all easy stuff to do, even for novices (espicially programmers), but if you get stuck or have anymore questions I'll try and help as much as I can :)

Ah, I'm glad it can export. And I have PHP and MySQL in the host package and I know CHMOD so that's OK. Basically I wanted to host wordpress myself for more control (like the page header etc). OK, I'll look into it soon, thanks.

Anythoughts about the separate domain, google rank etc?

How about using an Iframe to embed your wordpress site into your normal one:

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/frames/_IFRAME.html

yes, but as far as him using it, and people viewing it, it will appear to be on his normal website.

Why don't you just install wordpress on your .com site?

if you're worried about Google ranking iframes are the worst thing you can do. They're also bad for usability since they can't be book marked without popping out of the frame.

I would suggest setting it all up on the server yourself. It's ridiculously easy to install. You've seen BinaryJoy and know that's entirely wordpress, as is BinaryMoon my personal blog. Don't worry about separate domains. I would just use wordpress and remove your current site. Wordpress supports pages so you can just add your game content that way - it would make the theme and templating a lot easier to control and keep everything consistent.

BTW Wordpress rocks - good choice. Have you seen the Regulus theme on wp.com? That's mine that is :)

You'd be better off swapping links with other sites.

cool!

Thanks for the Iframe suggestion but I don't want to go that route.

Ben: What I'd prefer is to leave my main site alone, but when I click on the Blog link, it goes to www.greayaliengames.com/blog.html or something and that page only is powered by wordpress. I don't want the whole site wordpress powered at the moment... It's free to install right? How do I install it on a server anyway, do I need unix experience?...Or can I just copy files/code via FTP and then access them via HTML/PHP? Of course I bet there's plenty of tutorials out there but first hand info is always best...

well you can install wordpress into a folder

so install it into:

www.greayaliengames.com/blog

cool thanks.

all you have todo is to make a folder called blog, upload all the wordpress files into it, go to the install php page, fill in your details (such as mysql database password etc) and it self installs.

Also, have a look at this if you want a complete site solution

http://www.websitebaker.org/2/home/

its all moduler, and you can have multiple blogs, galleries etc, without it looking like a blog site.

Thanks for the link, I don't want a whole site overhaul right now as I don't have the time, but a self-contained blog would be neat.

Yeah - you just upload the folder and away you go. You need to setup the database first - you can normally do that through your website control panel. Some webhosts have worpdress installation built in - I use dreamhost and they can set it up for you in about 5 minutes, but I prefer to do it myself.

Its pretty easy - It only took me about 30mins to integrate it for one of my new projects as the News page thingy: www.thephorse.net/beatclick

the help file included is pretty good, but gimmie a shout if you need any help ga

I get an 'Internal Server Error' in that panel of your site.

:o works here!

what browser are you using?

ok thanks for the eedback, maybe I'll do it tomorrow...

Aymes, it works in IE on my PC.

Aymes: s'OK. It's working now.