Installing WordPress on a site OR just adding a blog page on the site - Which one is better and why ?
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Thanks Guys. That's helpful !
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WordPress is way more than blogging software and is a fully fledged content management site that you can use to manage your entire site.
I can think of lots of reasons to use WordPress for the site + blog component in one package and hardly any to use one CMS for the main site and then another for the blog (doubling up your work).
- Use one system (WordPress)
- Make sure it is optimised (Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin a good start)
- Have a blog category in a subdirectory /blog
Ultimately, unless there are very specific requirements then I tackle this from a 'are there any reasons NOT to use WordPress' for this site perspective.
So, less work, great results, ease of publishing, a wealth of extensions and plugins and a generally out-the-box SEO friendly platform make for a fairly convincing argument.
Hope that helps
Marcus
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Hi Vikas_Rana
This will depend on who is going to be managing the site. Installing Wordpress throughout your domain is ideal because everything is there already. All the tools and plugins are available in a heart beat.
Some admins prefer to use pure HTML websites because they can customize it according to how they want it, but it does require a little more effort and development ability.
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Hi Vikas,
To host a blog on your website there are numerous approaches. You can have Wordpress installed on a domain in its root folder or you can install Wordpress in a sub-directory (domain.com/WP/, you can re-name WP to blog so that it becomes domain.com/blog/ ) or you can install Wordpress on a sub-domain (blog.domain.com) etc. Personally I have had great success with installing Wordpress on a sub-directory. This way, I am not separating my blog content from its root and moreover adding strength to the root domain in terms of all SEO goodies. Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Devanur Rafi.
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