embedding my blog in another website

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  therealpantsman · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 6:27 am

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  Hi there,
  I know I read something a couple of months ago in the ‘domain mapping’ help section about something to do with CNAME and embedding my blog in another website, but now I can’t find what I’m looking for. I already have a domain with a website that I am redesigning that I’d like to add my wordpress blog into. Can someone help with a link to the relevant page please?
  Also, my website uses javascript (specifically spry tabbed panels). I want to have my wordpress blog in one of these panels? Is that possible? I know javascript is not allowed in the blog, but is around the blog ok?
  Thanks so much for the help. It is much appreciated.
  Luke

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 6:31 am

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  The thing with the CNAME would have likely been mapping your site here to a subdomain of your main site (blog.yoursite.com).

  The other (far less optimal) way is to put your site here into an iframe on your main site. This can cause issues sometimes, and your main site will not benefit from having the blog “on” it since it will just be displayed in a frame on your existing site. From an SEO standpoint, it would be better to have it mapped to a subdomain.

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  therealpantsman · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 9:55 am

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  That’s what I was looking for, mapping to a subdomain. Thanks a lot.

  Sorry, I’m not 100% sure I understand what you’re saying there in the 2nd paragraph. To be clear, I cannot have my blog in one of the tabbed panels on my website unless it’s in an iframe inside one of the panels? My only option outside of this is a more traditional subdomain?

  And I didn’t think of the SEO ramifications of me doing things the way I first intended, so thanks for the heads up on that too.

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  homesalere · Member · Dec 15, 2011 at 6:35 pm

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  How would you embed your blog onto another website? Can you set it up so that posts automatically feed to the site, maybe an RSS feed similar to how you can embed’s facebook like box and stream the posts?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 15, 2011 at 6:38 pm

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  @pruhomesale
  We do not provide support for installing the capacity on your website to draw the RSS feed from your blog. That support is provided at http://wordpress.org/support/

  Every wordpress blog has an RSS feed for comments and for posts (entries). This is the URL for the feed for your blog’s posts (entries):
  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/feed/
  This is the URL for the feed for your blog’s comments:
  http://NAME_OF_BLOG.wordpress.com/comments/feed/

  On your website you will have to write something in PHP or JavaScript to do that. Here are a couple options:
  http://www.blastcasta.com/add-news-to-your-website.aspx
  http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/2006/10/09/rss-feeds-adding-a-feed-to-a-website-using-php