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First Post

Kae Verens ~ Tuesday 27th March, 2012

Hi! I'm a great fan of the blog engine WordPress, but would prefer to have an engine which I can slot into the KV Sites engine, so that it can be more easily designed and integrated with whichever main website I'm working on.

Usually, when a Wordpress blog is created for a website, the blog is held on either a separate domain (such as blog.whatever.xyz), or in a sub-domain (whatever.xyz/blog).

The separate domain solution is the cleanest from the system's point of view, because the website software and the blog software is completely separate, and so upgrades, bugs, or failures in one do not necessarily break the other.

However, it's not the best solution where search engine optimisation is concerned. the problem is that search engines consider sub-domains to be separate domains entirely from their main domains, so the SEO points that you get from all those lovely words in the blog posts are negated by their not being for your main website.

The better solution, for SEO, is that the blog be located within the main domain, so any "good will" given to the articles benefit the entire site.

Unfortunately, this involves either shoe-horning the blog into the main website's CMS, or doing something awkward such as setting up a reverse proxy. Neither of these solutions are very neat at all.

In all the above cases, the design must be done once for the website, and once for the blog. And if you want to integrate search throughout the website and blog, forget it!

The solution is a proper integration of blog software into the website's content management system itself.

This way, it is part of the main website, so when the website is themed, the blog gets the same design with no extra effort.

Also, because it's part of the same engine and shares the same database, search is much easier to implement, and it's easier to embed blog widgets such as tag-clouds, lists of recent posts, etc.

KV Sites' content management engine now has a blog engine embedded within it, and this is the first post from that.