WordPress subdirectory structure (Urgent)

  • Unknown's avatar
    shiml45 · Member ·

    We’ve initially created our website through Unbounce but had problems with the subdomain/subdirectory because Unbounce were hosting on their own – so our blog post on Ghost weren’t able to go under the subdirectory of our Unbounce-made pages.
    Thus, my question is:

    1. Does WordPress have a separated host so that we could bring our Ghost blog pages and have it under our wordpress subdirectory?

    2. If not, is there a way that we could get our blog pages go under the subdirectory of our newly made wordpress pages?

    To summarize, we will be able to have our blog pages from ghost under our wordpress domain?
    our current blog URL is: blog.www.example.com
    but we want it to be: http://www.example.com/blog
    Will this be possible if we create our website through wordpress?

    *we can’t use iframe

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    If you are saying that when you migrate your site content over to WordPress.com, you wish to have your post content under http://www.wordpresssite.com/blog, then you can absolutely do this.

    For information on setting this up, please visit:

    https://wordpress.com/support/pages/front-page/#3-create-a-blog-page-optional

    However, I don’t how easy the migration process will be from Ghost. From what I have found, most of the guides online are moving from Ghost to a self-hosted instance of WordPress. But, take a look at some of the instruction options and see if anything will work for you.

    Let us know if you have any questions.

    Thanks,

  • staff-doublebassd · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    If you are saying that when you migrate your site content over to WordPress.com, you wish to have your post content under http://www.wordpresssite.com/blog, then you can absolutely do this.

    For information on setting this up, please visit:

    https://wordpress.com/support/pages/front-page/#3-create-a-blog-page-optional

    However, I don’t how easy the migration process will be from Ghost. From what I have found, most of the guides online are moving from Ghost to a self-hosted instance of WordPress. But, take a look at some of the instruction options and see if anything will work for you.

    Let us know if you have any questions.

    Thanks,

  • Unknown's avatar
    shiml45 · Member ·

    Thank you for getting back to me!

    I’ve found out that by using either Nginx or Apache, ghost blogs can be slipped into another URL’s subdirectory.

    so my question now is:

    1. is wordpress able to integrate with either Nginx or Apache and place our ghost blogs under it’s subdirectory?

    2. if yes, will this mean that all the traffic will be focused down to our homepage that we’ve created on wordpress (for SEO purposes)

    Thank you!

  • staff-totoro · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    is wordpress able to integrate with either Nginx or Apache and place our ghost blogs under it’s subdirectory?

    I’m not exactly sure how to answer this question, as WordPress.com is a managed hosting platform (hosting config is not able to be changed by site owners) so we don’t really offer custom configuration options. The exception is sites that run on our WordPress.com Business Plan or higher. Those sites use our business-class hosting which is a custom (and fully managed) Nginx host.

    Are you an Nginx developer? Because our platform is fully managed you would not have access to customize the server config for your account, so to “move” your Ghost blogs to us, you would actually be exporting the content on Ghost, and importing it to your WordPress site.

    As staff-doublebassd mentions, we do not have a specific import process for Ghost blogs, but you can follow any of the DIY guides you find here.

    Once imported to your WordPress site, it would be possible to have your main blog page appear at a wordpresssite.com/blog URL, but the posts would be native to WordPress. It would not be a Ghost installation in a subdirectory.

    if yes, will this mean that all the traffic will be focused down to our homepage that we’ve created on wordpress (for SEO purposes)

    I’m not sure I understood that question. Can you tell me a bit more about what you are trying to set up? Our platform is fully optimized for SEO so my assumption is this would not be an issue but I want to be sure I understand before I answer.

    For the best SEO experiece I also recommend our WordPress.com Business Plan, which you can learn more about here: https://wordpress.com/pricing/

    In addition we have a guide to SEO on our Business sites, which you may find helpful: https://wpbizseo.wordpress.com/

    Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions.

  • Unknown's avatar
    shiml45 · Member ·

    Sorry for not being clear with the questions :(

    I’m actually a marketer trying to figure this problem without our dev team’s help since their workload is already way over the top. Thus, I’m not very familiar with these terms or concepts. so please, please do correct me and explain in elementary level if possible since I’m completely new to this.

    let me explain the whole situation as far as I understood:

    We’ve created our home page thru Unbounce: http://www.example.com
    and our blog posts thru Ghost: blog.example.com

    However, this was inefficient SEO wise since there were two different domains.
    Thus, we wished to have our Ghost blogs under the subdirectory of our Unbounce-created home page as so : http://www.example.com/blog

    but apparently, unbounce didn’t allow this because their service was a “drag and drop” page creating and managing tool. the only option that I heard was thru utilizing iframe, but that was also not an option for us because I heard that the crawl bots cannot recognize it(?).

    Thus, if the case is different with wordpress, and if we could solve this problem by migrating to WordPress, we are desperately willing to do so.

    Thank you!

  • staff-mckluskey · Staff ·

    Thank you for all the details.
    If I understood correctly, I think that what you’re trying to do won’t be possible here.

    What staff-doublebassd said above about using your domain with /blog to display your blog page is true; however, it would mean that the whole domain would also point to the WordPress.com site.

    Let me break it down. You create a WordPress.com site and move your Ghost blog’s content there. You then map your custom domain so that site opens up whenever someone clicks on your domain. The blog page is under /blog subdirectory, but the Unbounce-created site is still completely independent and now has no domain.

    That said, to do what you intended, you would need to move your whole site and domain to WordPress.com. That way, you would have a site with a blog, everything in one place, and with the desired subdirectory.
    Does that make sense?

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