This page provides quick guide for using WordPress powered blog and Post2Blog software for news section. Using this tutorial you will learn how to update news section on your web-site without changing HTML files. All you will need to add news is to launch Post2Blog, type news and click button to publish news.

4 ingredients to create news section:

Installing WordPress blog on your web-site

Skip this step if you have WordPress (another blog engine) already installed on your web-site

Download WordPress code from WordPress download page and copy it into the /blog/ sub-folder on your web-site

Install WordPress blog following Famous 5-Minute Install instructions.

Connecting Post2Blog to the news blog

Download and install trial version of Post2Blog desktop blogging client: http://bytescout.com/files/Post2Blog.exe

Run Post2Blog

Go to File menu in Post2Blog and select Account | New

New Account Wizard will appear. Select WordPress blog type and click Next:

Enter link to folder with WordPress blog on your web-site. For example: http://YourSiteName.com/blog/ and click Next

Next pages will ask you for different options - don't change default options and click Next until you get Finish page and click Finish on the Finish page to close wizard.

New account for your news blog will be added to the list of accounts and will be selected by default.

Type news you want to post:

and click Post And Publish to add news to the news blog and they will appear in the blog:

Displaying news from bews blog on the main page

Download free RSS2HTML script for PHP from this page

Unpack ZIP file with script and modify sample-template.html to the following code:

<H1>~~~FeedTitle~~~</H1>
<H2>~~~FeedDescription~~~</H2>
<BR>
<TABLE width="100%">
~~~BeginItemsRecord~~~
<TR>
<TD>
~~~ItemPubShortDate~~~ ~~~ItemPubShortTime~~~
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
<B><A href="~~~ItemLink~~~">~~~ItemTitle~~~</A></B>
</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD>
~~~ItemDescription~~~
<BR>
</TD>
</TR>
~~~EndItemsRecord~~~
</TABLE>

Upload modified sample-template.php and rss2html.php script to the main folder of your web-site.

Now we need to modify main page of your web-site. If you have .html or .htm file then just simply change its extension to .php
On most hosting services index.php will work without problems.

Open index.php and insert this code snippet to the place where you want to display news:

<?php include("rss2html.php?XMLFILE=http://www.MySiteName.com/blog/?feed=rss2") ?>

Link highlighted with green color is the link to the RSS feed of your news blog. Usually this links is

http://www.MySiteName.com/blog/?feed=rss2

if you have installed blog into /blog/ sub-folder

Now save index.php and upload it.

Now you can see news items from your blog displayed on the main page of you web-site like you can see on our web-site:

Now you can add, manage, edit news in news section on your web-site directly from desktop using Post2Blog blogging client. All news you add into the blog will be automatically displayed on the main page of your web-site.