[Michael Robson]

I'm looking to put a blog on my site. Can anyone suggest one they have used?

Thanks,

[Samus]

Wordpress?

[Michael Robson]

Samus, on 31 January 2012 - 10:37 PM, said:

Wordpress?

Ive already got a PHP website designed so wanting to put a PHP Blog into that.

[Samus]

Michael Robson, on 31 January 2012 - 10:46 PM, said:

Ive already got a PHP website designed so wanting to put a PHP Blog into that.

What do you mean?

Wordpress is built in PHP.

[Michael Robson]

Samus, on 31 January 2012 - 10:52 PM, said:

What do you mean?

Wordpress is built in PHP.

Sorry, i mean i already have the site designed etc, so want to use that layout etc.

[porkchops]

Michael Robson, on 31 January 2012 - 10:55 PM, said:

Sorry, i mean i already have the site designed etc, so want to use that layout etc.

Build a custom theme and use it in wordpress. That's going to be the simplest way to do this, especially if blog pages are going to look the same as the rest of your site.

Otherwise, host a wordpress installation, find a theme on Themeforest or that ilk that is similar to your current site and just link over to the blog.

[sash_oo7]

or read here

[GoodWill]

I am a big fan of custom coding...

The reason is you only have code that is relevant to you, WordPress etc have to much coding for about 95% of websites that us it, which makes it heavier than is needed!

You can always create a blog using php, its pretty simple to make, shouldn't take more than a day of coding depending how complex you are wanting to go.

A basic blog with comment, metatags, pagination, custom urls etc should only take about 1 day in coding if you are decent at php.

Otherwise if you do not know php the best would probably be WordPress because its free and very easy to customise!

This post has been edited by GoodWill: 03 February 2012 - 12:29 PM

[rallport]

GoodWill, on 03 February 2012 - 12:28 PM, said:

I am a big fan of custom coding...

The reason is you only have code that is relevant to you, WordPress etc have to much coding for about 95% of websites that us it, which makes it heavier than is needed!

You can always create a blog using php, its pretty simple to make, shouldn't take more than a day of coding depending how complex you are wanting to go.

Kudos for not jumping into the Wordpress crowd and using it for every website. * high fives *

GoodWill, on 03 February 2012 - 12:28 PM, said:

A basic blog with comment, metatags, pagination, custom urls etc should only take about 1 day in coding if you are decent at php.

That's an awful long time tbh - if it is taking so long to write things as simple as a blog (which really isn't anything out of the ordinary, it's essentially just some basic CRUD operations) you may want have a look at using a framework to speed up your development. For example, if you're adding in time for things like pagination you need to at least write or reuse a pagination class you can pop into any project. In a web project, something like pagination shouldn't even be factored in time wise. In terms of a blog, if I was writing one from scratch, I'd allow may maybe 5 mins at most if using my own pagination class and even less if I was using my php framework of choice.

Take it from someone who has worked as a web developer full time, as the sole developer for 2.5 years - get your backoffice systems sorted. You'll save yourself so much time. Bit the bullet, sit down and say to yourself, right, i'll write myself a nice pagination class int he next hour that I can use in any project.

[GoodWill]

rallport, on 05 February 2012 - 02:37 PM, said:

Kudos for not jumping into the Wordpress crowd and using it for every website. * high fives *

Thanks, im not a huge fan of Wordpress unless clients ask for it.

rallport, on 05 February 2012 - 02:37 PM, said:

That's an awful long time tbh - if it is taking so long to write things as simple as a blog (which really isn't anything out of the ordinary, it's essentially just some basic CRUD operations) you may want have a look at using a framework to speed up your development. For example, if you're adding in time for things like pagination you need to at least write or reuse a pagination class you can pop into any project. In a web project, something like pagination shouldn't even be factored in time wise. In terms of a blog, if I was writing one from scratch, I'd allow may maybe 5 mins at most if using my own pagination class and even less if I was using my php framework of choice.

I only stated a day or so incase he was starting from scratch.

I agree once you have a few classes, functions etc things fly together very quick.