linking a website into blog

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 18, 2011 at 2:56 pm

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  See if I can get the blockquote to work here from the post above: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/linking-a-website-into-blog?replies=20#post-574209

  I have a page called 7 day forecast on my blog and want this page to be a website from the weather office which issues this forecast.

  If I read that correctly they are looking for the other web site to be inset into their blog here not a plain link to the other site. the inserting another site into a site is done I think with iframes which are not allowed here for security reasons and also because that is the prime tool for scrapers and other sites that just duplicate other content.

  To do what they want would be at best tricky and either way, above my pay-grade. Maybe if they could find part of what they wanted in some sort of Flash version and it could be used with the giga code??

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  timethief · Member · Mar 18, 2011 at 4:29 pm

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  @peistormchaser

  All I want to do is use an external website as a page in my blog. </blocquote>
  You cannot embed an external website into your blog. You can link to it only. You create custom menu, and then put a custom link to the external page in the top navigation.

  I have set up my test blog as if it was yours and geone through all the steps, which I have listed below for you.
  1. Create a custom menu > Appearance > Menu
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#creating-a-custom-menu

  2. When the custom menu page opens go to the Theme Locations box and type in a name for your custom menu like “Top Navigation” and save it.

  3. Scroll down to the Custom Links module. In the URL type in the URL for the
  http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/pe-5_metric_e.html
  and in the Label type Forecast. Then click “Add to Menu”.

  4. Go to the Pages Module and select all your pages and click “Add to Menu”.

  5. Arrange all the Pages and pages in the order you want them to display on the blog. You can create a hierarchical structure by placing sub-pages under Parent pages so drop and drag the subpages below the appropriate Parent page.

  6. Now drag and drop the Forecast custom link you created and position it under the 7 Day Forecast page as if it is a sub-page so it will display as a dropdown under the 7 Day Forecast page.

  7. Go to the “theme location” module at upper left on the menu page. Select your custom menu name from the pulldown labeled “primary location.” Click the save button in that module. Click and save the menu in the righthand module as well.

  8. Refresh your browser so that it isn’t possibly pulling a cached page, and view see your new menu with Parent pages and dropdowns to sub-pages including your Forecast custom link you created.