All,

I am having a little issue with adding a blog to a html website I have created, I have finished the website and everything looks fine as it is but I want a user to be able to log in to something online and update the blog.

Please note that the website is running LOCALLY as it is a kiosk, I looked at WordPress but the php side really confused me.

Does anyone know any alternatives?

Many Thanks

What part of Wordpress was confusing?

Any type of website where you want to log in and have the ability to update it will most likely use PHP. Especially the free ones.
PHP is the backbone of making dynamic websites. That paired with MySQL and you've got a pretty awesome web app.

Wordpress in my opinion would be the easiest blog tools out there. There are of course many out there, but in my opinion, none of them have the great documentation Wordpress has.

It might help if I knew more about what this website was for.
What is the function of this website?
Are there only going to be a few pages on the website? Or are you wanting to be able to add pages daily?
Is the user logging in not know HTML so you wish to provide an easy way to modify information?

What I'm trying to get at is that a blog may be too much for what you need. I of course have no idea what you need so answering those questions could help.

Hi DirtyRasa,

This is a touch screen kiosk interface that launches a local root folder with a html website in, there is 3 pages in total and one of them is a blog. I don't want anything changing apart from the blog on a monthly basis.

The blog is updated remotely by a user logging into some web app online and then it updates the website locally ( that's at another office ) The Kiosk is connected to the internet and will be able to pull various information from the web.

It is connected via dongle and then pulls a javascript code from a survey generated website for users to have their input. So it is online, stored locally but I just need the blog to be able to update from wherever on the net.

If that makes sense.

Many Thanks.

shouldnt be a problem as long as they are all connected to the same database.

but the person updating the blog cant exactly go to localhost\wordpress can they,

what? no you need hosting and a domain..

yeah right I got that now,

but what I'm asking is what code ect do i link into my html to make the blog show up

So your kiosk has 3 pages with one being a blog.
Is this blog just status updates? Or is it linking to other pages?

Can you access the kiosk via FTP?
If you can only FTP, It might be easier to just update the HTML by hand and push the new file to the kiosk.

Do you really need a web app to modify pages? Is the user doing the modification not IT smart?


Here are some other options.
A) Get a host and a domain and put your website on the internet and have you Kiosk open a browser to that site.
Turn your kiosk in to a server so you can log on to it remotely. (This would require a lot of IT knowledge)

The idea was to push the updates manually to it by RDP via teamviewer or something. Think that's what we will still go ahead with.