RhysAndrews Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Hey guys! I am looking for a blog system, such as Wordpress, that can be integrated and styled into my own website without requiring mySQL databases. I've heard it's possible to use the Wordpress RSS function to display blog entries straight from wordpress, but I have no idea how I would go about doing this - and would it automatically archive articles into new pages? I'm seriously lost here! Any help would be much appreciated. -Rhys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 RSS is not a form of database. The RSS feed is generated by Wordpress grabbing the posts from your MySQL database. Currently Wordpress only supports MySQL Databases. No matter what blog system you use they will require some form of database. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhysAndrews Posted March 31, 2009 Author Share Posted March 31, 2009 I understand, but I had found a site once that showed how to integrate the RSS feed into a website and customise it, making it look just like a blog - then it was editable from Wordpress' site. But surely it is possible to create a blog system that, instead of looking for entries in a database to edit (or adding new entries to the database), looks for DIV containers with a certain class name. You could even have all the DIV containers in one document, and then according to the page archive number, pick a cluster of 5 DIV containers to display on the page (For archived pages etc). Anyway, thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 But surely it is possible to create a blog system that, instead of looking for entries in a database to edit (or adding new entries to the database), looks for DIV containers with a certain class name. You could even have all the DIV containers in one document, and then according to the page archive number, pick a cluster of 5 DIV containers to display on the page (For archived pages etc). Anyway, thanks for your help. Yes that is possible, the technique you just described is known as a flat file database. However you wont be able to do that with Wordpress. You will have to create your own blog system to achieve this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhysAndrews Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 Hi again. I didn't expect wordpress to offer something like that... I did just find a system called Thingamablog, which is a free piece of software that does it all on the client computer and then uploads HTM/HTML files to the server. This seems to do exactly what I'd like. Thanks for your help -Rhys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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