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Adding a BLOG to FTH2.0 9 years 9 months ago #37831

xavyconnect Topic Author Offline New Member Posts: 1 Thank you received: 0	Hello, Is there any way to add a blog to our Toastmasters Site. If so, how can I do that ? Please help ! I would like to create one for our members and visitors. thank you! Francisco
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Adding a BLOG to FTH2.0 9 years 9 months ago #37832

Brian Offline Administrator Posts: 11647 Thank you received: 3880	There are so many sites that offer free blogs FTH will not have one. You can link to a third part blog or use iframe to include a third party blog on your site. Thank you, Brian McDonald DTM, PDD D61 FTH Lead Technical Support member Cataraqui Valley Toastmaster 9560
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Adding a BLOG to FTH2.0 9 years 9 months ago #37835

SteveTheTechie Offline FreeToastHost Developer Posts: 13529 Thank you received: 3831	An example third party blogging site would be blogger.com... you could just link your blog into your website. Regards, Steve James, DTM FreeToastHost System Developer Officer Emeritus, Mindful Communicators (Club 1966, District 52) A President's Distinguished Club for each of the last 10 years. >>> Please put your club number in your forum profile. CLICK here to edit your profile.
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Adding a BLOG to FTH2.0 8 years 7 months ago #53008

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One of the issues I ran into was that some don't allow the iFrame approach. WordPress blocked me. There is PHP code they provide to embed WordPress content. But, I did not even attempt as I assumed that would not work properly. I did find a widget that would display feeds from various places. That works, but is still not very user friendly.

Any chance of integrating a feed widget? That would allow showing feeds in a user friendly way.

Glenn Walker

Glenn Walker DTM
Pursuers Toastmasters Club (6901)

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Adding a BLOG to FTH2.0 8 years 7 months ago #53010

Brian Offline Administrator Posts: 11647 Thank you received: 3880	Sorry no to many variables. Thank you, Brian McDonald DTM, PDD D61 FTH Lead Technical Support member Cataraqui Valley Toastmaster 9560
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Adding a BLOG to FTH2.0 7 years 5 months ago #59478

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I found my solution by using a widget that allows me to embed any RSS feed into my page. The widget I found was called Feedwind at feed.mikle.com/. It allowed me to create an embed for my front page that reads the feed from WordPress and scrolls the stories on my front page. I will write up the steps if anyone is interested.

I am sure there are similar solutions, but this one worked.

Glenn Walker DTM
Pursuers Toastmasters Club (6901)

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Adding a BLOG to FTH2.0 5 years 10 months ago #70092

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Hi Glen, I am Mikael from 6623298 Brampton Talks......yea, I would be very interested if you have a description of what you did or if you could supply a short write up.
We are distributing Club Communication each week and to be able to have that in Blog form on the webpage would be welcome. I am fairly familiar already with WordPress since that is where I host my personal blog...why that is probably where I would host the club blog too

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Adding a BLOG to FTH2.0 5 years 10 months ago #70096

Brian Offline Administrator Posts: 11647 Thank you received: 3880	1) If you want to link to a blog, FTH allows you to do that or include as an iframe. 2) FTH will never support php on the server. 3) your club always has the option to pay for hosting and hire a webmaster to maintain the software. Thank you, Brian McDonald DTM, PDD D61 FTH Lead Technical Support member Cataraqui Valley Toastmaster 9560
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Adding a BLOG to FTH2.0 5 years 10 months ago #70112

wesb
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Hi, Mikael !!!

There are plenty of free web hosting services that run WordPress, and would allow you to operate a blog, at no cost to your club. If your FTH2 site links to the separate site, and it links back to the FTH2 site, visitors need not even realize that they're passing between two different sites. My club does this, though not presently for a blog. (We specifically had to disable the blog option; the blog is there by default. We'll probably switch it back on, someday.) If you check ours out (click on the Mobile Site link to go to a WordPress page) you'll see that the Weaver Xtreme theme can even be twiddled to look somewhat like the FTH2 layout. (Okay, don't look too closely...)

A few caveats:
- The free services tend to have annoying limitations, to badger you into paying for a not-so-annoying environment. Match offerings to your needs and choose your service very carefully.
- Not many services will allow you to run HTTPS for free, and a FTH2 link to a non HTTPS-site can have consequences.
- Facebook won't link to some of the free services, so decide ahead of time if you need such links before you spend too much time on the alternate site. Trust me; having this happen is not as much fun as it sounds...

If you set up a blog site in this way, let us know so we can have a look-see...

Wes B.

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