Since I had a blog, I have been trying hard to find ways to display my latest posts on my homepage. Firstly, it displays fresh content and thus SE should like it. Second, I want people to be able to see the latest posts without clicking to my blog page. I have been research on how to integrate wordpress but so far i had no luck with it. Today, when I playing around with feedburner, which in my opinion, is a must have tool if you have a blog on your site. If you have not had one, go here and sign up: http://www.feedburner.com
A live demo on my home page: SEO Directory HomePage
After creating your account, login into your members area and click on publicize tab, then select BuzzBoost:
Then all you need to do is to activate this service. Once the service is activated, you will get a piece of code. Before you copy and paste to your main.tpl file, you should set up some parameters first according to your own preferences.
I would also suggest you input some CSS style in your own stylesheet and overwrite the style provided by feedburner to match your site’s design. Here is a complete list of the class you can control:
Feed title: .feedTitle
Your post headline: .headline
Excerpt: div
The date: .date
You can also oeverwrite the displaying options by editing the <script> tag,
script src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/seo-blog-directory?format=sigpro<addthings here to control>
For example, if you decide to high the title:
script src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/seo-blog-directory?format=sigpro&displayTitle=false”
if you want the excerpt to display 30 words
script src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/seo-blog-directory?format=sigpro&excerptLength=30″
You can get a complete instruction on feedburner on apply your own the styles.
