Xara/Wordpress Combo

Hi

I have a sports website domain that hosts a blog/Q+A made in Wordpress. It only has three pages. Because Xara doesn't natively do blogs and Q+A pages I reluctantly used Wordpress. I now wish to do a major upgrade of this site, adding a number of new pages, but I have no desire to do it in Wordpress. I would like to add a Xara front end to the site so that the index page is in Xara not Wordpress. In other words, can Xara and Wordpress exist side by side on the same domain? Is it simply a case of putting all the wordpress files into a sub folder and publishing the Xara files to the root directory? The WordPress site uses C-Panel.

If it can be done can anyone point me to an article that explains the process?

Regards
Kevin

Hi Kevin,

I've just PM'ed you re Blogger with a possible workaround. Perhaps this may be the way forward rather than a cms mix?

Egg

Thanks but the above web issue is a different blog and a different website to the one you have been advising me on. I am keen to upgrade cricketcoachingonline.com but don't want to lose the Wordpress blog/Q+A functionality that has been working flawlessly for some years if I change to a mainly Xara site.

Regards
Kevin

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Originally Posted by kkeys

Hi

I have a sports website domain that hosts a blog/Q+A made in Wordpress. It only has three pages. Because Xara doesn't natively do blogs and Q+A pages I reluctantly used Wordpress. I now wish to do a major upgrade of this site, adding a number of new pages, but I have no desire to do it in Wordpress. I would like to add a Xara front end to the site so that the index page is in Xara not Wordpress. In other words, can Xara and Wordpress exist side by side on the same domain? Is it simply a case of putting all the wordpress files into a sub folder and publishing the Xara files to the root directory? The WordPress site uses C-Panel.

If it can be done can anyone point me to an article that explains the process?

Regards
Kevin

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Kevin, that is exactly what I did (do).

Create a sub-folder from your root folder (e.g., public_html/rootSite/subSiteWp/) to install WP into, where rootSite is your main site root location and subFolderWp is what you would call as the path to all your WordPress files.

Acorn

I've tried it with a Joomla site loading into an Iframe and it works well Kevin.

Acorn

Thanks. Can I just copy all the files from the root folder to the new WP sub-folder or do I have to do a fresh install of WP? I ask because you used the word 'install' in your explanation.

Regards
Kevin

Egg

Are you suggesting I scrap WP and transfer all my posts and Questions and Answers elsewhere? Apologies, but I am confused.

I see no way to incorporate the existing posts/Q+As (nearly 200 of them) into Xara.

I was anticipating moving the current WP installation to a sub-folder using cPanel, publishing the new Xara front end to the root folder and linking to the three pages in WP, rather than using the embed a website widget. I am not concerned about the different look of WP to a new Xara site. I could make the Xara site look like the current WP theme, or vice versa.

The other thought I had was to totally scrap WP and transfer the posts and Q+As to new blogs in Blogger (or another blogging platform). I would then have the choice of using iframes or just linking to the blogs.

Regards
Kevin

I would install a new WP instance and then Export all form old to new: https://www.greengeeks.com/tutorials...og-to-another/.
I am sure there are other approaches.

Acorn

Acorn

Thanks. I will start the re-design of the website today.

Regards
Kevin

Hi kevin,
I looked at your cricket coaching online website (which is great) and see that you seem to have a BLOG page on that Xara site that is made from cut and pasted articles but on that page you have links going to 2 other blogs for umpiring and coaching which are made on Blogger . This looks like a good system for me to use on my https://www.t2diabetesreversal.com.au/blog.htm website. Have you found it works well for you? I struggle with the tech side of things and definitely dont want to be moderating posts or dealing with answering at this stage but I want the articles to improve SEO. I keep being told to steer clear of Wordpress and it seems you have gone with Blogger over WP. I presume your blog pages link back to the xara site and help your SEO . Any comments or advice based on your experience would be most welcome.

Hi Jackb

I have been running cricketcoachingonline.com as a WordPress blog for three and a half years. Recently I decided to switch to a Xara/Blogger combo as I have become disenchanted with WordPress for the following reasons:
1. Incredibly slow page load times.
2. Relentless multiple daily hacking attacks.
3. An unwillingness to learn Gutenberg.
4. The need to constantly update plugins.

While moving the site to Xara I decided against embedding the blog in an iframe because of the lack of scrolling in iOS devices. I downloaded all the legacy data from the WordPress and incorporated it into the new site. I have been running a Blogger blog in another website, cricketumpiring.com, so the learning curve was limited. I have found Blogger easier to use than Wordpress and it suits my needs. I decided against incorporating a Q+A forum into the blogs, preferring to handle this aspect manually via pages. I am still working on the cricketcoaching site and it is far from the finished article. I have not yet done the link-backs, but will do so soon.

Regards
Kevin

Thanks for the info Kevin. Most appreciated. I think I will follow what you have done on my websites.
Regards,
John