I’ve read quite a few posts asking which was the best way to integrate a blog developed in WordPress in a web site and for what I understood there are two alternatives.
In order to make a blog an element of my web site http://www.mysite.com/blog I have two choices:
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Wrap the blog in a
<iframe>and try to make it look as part of the
web site as possible (handle templates,etc). The issue with this one
is SEO, because as for what I understand SE won’t parse the blog
because it is within an iframe. -
Install WordPress on the web site server and serve the page
http://www.mysite.com/blog using the WordPress backend.
Now the thing is that the web site runs TYPO3 and I’d like to know which of these options is the best to make the user believe the blog is part of the web site.
Considering the TYPO3 varibale, are there better options?If not which one is better?
I implemented the side by side version twice.
I finished one last week: blog.betreibungsschalter-plus.ch and http://www.betreibungsschalter-plus.ch. ( betreibungsschalter-plus.ch/blog was not possible, because the admin of the page was not able to configure apache that way, but it should work to)
Using TYPO3 as a blog is not recommended by me: the extensions are quite limited an you need several extension to come near wordpress features.
Downside of the side by side solution is that you have to double the navigation: If you change the navigation on the TYPO3 side you have to change it to on the wordpress side manually. (Or you hack wordpress to load the navigation from a TYPO3 Page)