Adding a blog or forum to site

[thedancingdaisy]

I am trying to set up a blog on wordpress and it has been a nightmare. When wordpress was suggested was it wordpress.com or .org?

I created a subdomain that I want to be the domain for wordpress, but it has been ugly.

[ontiltcasinogear]

wordpress.org


what is "ugly" about the setup?

[MissHTML]

we're just starting set up of our forum. We used a separate domain name trailerinfo.net/trailerinfoforum
Just getting it going, we used to have a forum way back in the day, but unfortunately I didn't back it up and ftp'd over it on our old server. That was a huge bummer, since it was on the up and coming. But now we're starting fresh.

[thedancingdaisy]

I added our blog to our homepage using feedburner. However, now I get the non-secure/secure items on a page error box because feedburner is not secure.

Does anyone else have this? Or did I do something wrong, and if so what?

[mueller]

Originally Posted by thedancingdaisy

I added our blog to our homepage using feedburner. However, now I get the non-secure/secure items on a page error box because feedburner is not secure.

Does anyone else have this? Or did I do something wrong, and if so what?

I had done the same setup and have not found a work around as of yet. I guess I could just manually update the home page every time a new post is made, but that would be a real pain. I figure it isn't too bad since it will only be on the home page as that is where we are displaying the dynamic links to the blog and also most people that enter the site on the home page will not be in SSL mode.

If you think of anything let me know.

[jhb]

We use the BuzzBoost feature at feedburner and a style type in front to format the html feed that BuzzBoost creates to generate our content. Don't know if this will work, but we do not get the secure item errors.

[mueller]

Originally Posted by jhb

We use the BuzzBoost feature at feedburner and a style type in front to format the html feed that BuzzBoost creates to generate our content. Don't know if this will work, but we do not get the secure item errors.

We use BuzzBoost as well to get the posts on our home page and you will still get this, although how your browser displays the problem depends on the browser and you particular settings.

Try this expirement: go to your site (http://www.yourdomain.com) then change it so "https" so it would be https://www.yourdomain.com and then look for indications. In IE I get a warning pop-up and in Firefox the address bar turns a different color and the lock gets a slash through it.

[jhb]

We do get the lock with the slash, so I guess we are stuck as well. Can I ask why you need your front page to run via https

[thedancingdaisy]

I don't particularly need my homepage to run via https, just didn't particularly care for the box that pops up saying there are non-secure items. Wasn't sure if there was a way around this that I wasn't aware of.

Thanks.

[mueller]

The home page does not default to SSL, but if someone is moving around your site and they visit a secure page and then end up back at the home page they will see this problem. Also, if they are typing your url into the address bar after ordering from your site and select an auto filled address it could have the SSL on.

So basically not a problem the first time someone is on your site, but after they have been around and/or ordered they may experience this problem.