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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points
Posted by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points

Building a blog for a client/ adding blog to portfolio site

Hi,

Im currently finishing off my own portfolio site but now want to add a blog to it, im trying to figure out what the best option would be to do this as (whether to use WP or not) and also find out other options/ views anybody may have?

This will also help as im building two other sites for small businesses who would like to add articles to their page (mainly on my advice for SEO reasons) and im wondering the best way to go about it for them as at some point i assume they will want to add their own content to their page.

I have been building all sites responsively from scratch with a bit of adjusting using the skeleton framework so i guess if i use wordpress then i will have to create the whole theme from scratch?? If i do complete this then is it worth just having the blog page through wordpress or actually the whole site?

Thanks,

Any views would be greatly appreciated!

2 Answers

Christophe Rudyj
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Christophe Rudyj
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Christophe Rudyj
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Christophe Rudyj
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 13,011 Points

I'd say build your entire portfolio site as a wordpres theme and use the template system for your static pages though there is a bootstrap and foundation base theme you can use also there is a skeleton base for wordpress however i can tell you that wordpressis pretty much straight up html page with added php components so it wouldnt be a problem to convert your already made skeletion based site to a wordpress enabed one

Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points

Thanks for your response, i thought that would be the best way around it and ive started implementing various elements and proving easier than first thought, especially as most of the site is built using php!