Hello members,
I want to ask that we are planning to shift our website (which is now built on Wordpress) to webflow. However, we’re planning to keep the blog on wordpress. So, I need your suggestions on either we should do it or not? We think we can manage the blog better on wordpress while the rest of the website will be running on webflow.
Kindly give your expert opinions on this. Thanks
The easy way is to serve your main site as www.site.com and your blog as blog.site.com, and just cross-link for navigation.
If you needed a deeper integration you’d need a reverse proxy and some engineering to do a “site merge”. In general this isn’t especially complex- there is a Finsweet video series on how to create a reverse proxy and I think it uses this as an example.
When I’m building client sites with this type of capability, the trickier parts are creating a cohesive navigation, fixing canonicals and alt lang references, and the sitemap.xml.
For SEO purposes, you don’t want to have the blog hosted on subdomain: x.com
To host the blog on a subdirectory, you need to proxy it from somewhere (a subdomain, a different domain, etc.) into a subdirectory. Traditionally, people used Nginx as the proxy, but these days, Cloudflare Workers is a better approach: Using Cloudflare Workers to proxy a WordPress blog to domain.tld/blog
Team,
We did a POC on this and facing some SEO Specific Issues. Please go through what we made till now and suggest the possible ways to overcome the issue
Here’s the process we followed.
The redirection is working fine. All the main site pages are being served from webflow and blog part is being served from Wordpress. However there are couple of challenges.
Can someone throw lights on this?
Note: We have seen some other ways like trying wordpress.org, other platforms like udesly adapter, blogstatis.io or to go with webflow pages plugin, but all of these has certain limitations in terms of security, scalability, flexibility,etc…
So we are looking for the ways to achieve this with WP.com
This is all custom development. A few notes for you;
/blog/whatever should remain that while pulling the page content from WP.Unless you’re building something big that justifies that kind of custom infrastructure investment- you’re likely better off going one way or the other.
I believe there are tools like Whalesync that can sync your WP blogs to WF if you’re just trying to keep the editor- but I can’t guess what sacrifices that would mean to layout or plug-in options like WP’s ACF.
Thanks for the reply : )
We actually wanted to take the advantage of wordpress blogging flexibilities as well as webflow designer flexibility.
Also, concerned about the potential risks on this kind of setup , costs,etc.
Will also go into the details on alternatives you’ve added. Also, do you have any idea on how the people are going with for such cases? In community, most of the people are discussing about reverse proxy, cloudflare workers only…
Yes, you want to create one site from two, so you either need to merge the sites externally ( reverse proxy ), or merge the data internally ( API, automations, CMS sync ).
With the reverse proxy approach your costs are the build costs, and any maintenance / changes / updates later. One-time engineering costs, no ongoing if you build it right. Low risk unless you build it wrong and create SSL or SEO issues for yourself.
With automation and sync, you generally have ongoing costs for the automation providers.
Do you have any idea of consultancies kind of who can help us with this reverse proxy setup?
Yes you can dm me if you like.
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