I want my blog posts, not my blog.

September 3, 2009 12:26 PM

How do I make the posts I make to my blog show up as integrated posts on a different website?

I'm not entirely sure how to explain this question.

I have a blog. Its called blog.blogspot.com. I have a website. Its called website.com. My blog is obviously a blog. I would for their to be a page on my website called "My Blog." Instead of opening my blog in a new tab, instead of opening my blog in the same tab, I want to open a page that looks like every other page on my website. But in the middle of that page, where the content is on every other page, I want the content to be "pulled" from the blog. That means the content is constantly updated automatically every time I update the blog. As a result, no one visits my blog, but they receive the blog postings when they visit my website's blog page.

Does this make sense?

Can it be done?

Can it be done by a person who doesn't know enough to know how to explain what he wants?

posted by jefficator to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Yes. Yes. Yes.
I even believe Blogger supplies the snippet you need to paste onto your site to achieve this.
posted by june made him a gemini at 12:35 PM on September 3

Hmm, maybe I'm remembering wrong or things were different when I looked into it.

Here are some options according to how your original site is laid out right now, assuming you're using some sort of CMS.
posted by june made him a gemini at 12:42 PM on September 3

There are several tools that help you do this, but I haven't tried any of them myself. You might search for "display rss feed in html page." That's how I found this page, which lists a bunch of mostly free tools.
posted by PatoPata at 4:17 PM on September 3

Yes. feed2js takes your RSS output from your blog and translates it into a little html snippet you can paste anywhere. You can set all manner of parameters via the dead simple form on their page. If you know enough to know what you want - full entries, with titles, etc, you know enough to make choices on the the form and it writes the code for you. You can even preview to make sure it looks like what you're imaging.

Totally free - you can install a local copy if you want, or just plug values into the web-based version.
posted by donnagirl at 9:18 PM on September 3