Comments on: When Is A Blog Not A Blog

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By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:50:15 +0000

Thanks for a great post Donna, I’ve been wanting to set up some regular sites. I wish I had time to post daily to multiple sites, but of course I don’t. Sticking with WordPress sounds like a great choice instead of trying to learn another CMS.

By: Donna

Donna — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:16:29 +0000

Hi DD. Well, as an old CF programmer myself, I actually feel qualified to answer this. It sounds like you’re going to have a regular site, powered by CF, with a blog as a separate section of the site. In that case, you could just install WordPress in its own folder (like I have here in the blog/ directory). The blog would be powered by WordPress (which uses php/mysql), but the rest of the site would be CF. That would work just fine. If you wanted to actually pull posts for display on your CF pages, you’d have to do a little coding, but it could certainly be done. You’d just have to do a cfquery against the mysql db and display the posts on the page. So, the short answer is “yes”.

By: DizzlinDerrill

DizzlinDerrill — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:56:24 +0000

Well, I couldn’t use “Dazzlin” since you have that one copyrighted, so my handle within here is Dizzlin. Hope you don’t mind. OK, anyway, my question: I am a ColdFusion coder, and I have a client that is a book publisher and wants a new site. I am thinking of setting up a combo site that uses my usual ColdFusion code to handle the shopping cart, but setting up a blog so she can write daily blogs as well. Does WordPress play friendly with ColdFusion?
Thanks for any info!
Signed,
DD

By: Char

Char — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:47:36 +0000

Thanks for the link Donna! WordPress is such a great tool for web design. I am working on converting many of my older sites over to WordPress just so they are easier to maintain.