Well, you’ve just hit the rub that we’ve all been talking about on the BANS forum and especially Mark Hansen’s blog…

The problem, before Mark came to the rescue and put together some templates, was that there was NO integration between the BANS and wp sides. But Mark came up with some awesome templates including some free ones that we could use that did that for us. Check them out at:

http: //www.thenichestorebuilder .com/build-a-niche-store-bans-templates

Remove the spaces for the link to work – I think code doesn’t appear in posts if its intact. There are some other folks on the BANS forum who have done similar.

The latest buzz, which I wanted from the get-go, is a script that would let me convert ANY of the zillions of WP themes into an instant BANS/WP hybrid. Right now each theme has to be hand-coded to make the integration work, so no one’s volunteering to do this. If you’re skilled at programming you could probably do it, but most of us know nothing about it.

To be honest, I don’t know that it really matters if you have a BANS and a blog totally integrated, or if you just have the two linked. It certainly looks nicer to have an integrated site, but I’ve got BANS sites that just have the blog in a sub-folder. They’re too new to really tell if page ranks will be different one way versus the other.

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I am quite happy being able to install WP into a sub-folder (probably titled ‘blog’ or something) but how do you link the two together so that the root (in this instance BANS) pulls in the content (WP posts)

at the same time maintaining the look, feel and useability of the designated theme (in this instance the BANS template currently selected)?

If you don’t use Hostgator, just create a folder called /blog in your main directory, then tell WP during installation to put the files there.

I have sites both ways, and have to say that sometimes leaving the BANS site alone is the best thing to do. Adding the blog makes it so much easier to add content though, and I think it accomplishes the same thing. Especially if you use one of Mark’s wrap-around templates, then its really easy.

At present I’m building a couple of WP/BANS sites with WP at the root and BANS store in a sub-folder. But I have 4x BANS sites that earn good money, are indexed AND ranking Page 1 Positions 1, 2 & 4 per site on Google US, Google UK & Yahoo, so I don’t want to break them or ruin the indexing or ranking.
Anyone know how I can add WP to these sites but in a blog sub-folder, so that it won’t affect indexing or ranking. For these I just want to add a blog facility & am happy with the BANS templates that are already being used?

JTPratt’s Blogging Mistakess last blog post..BANS re-launch is now Live – so Now What?!

Does it allow you to geotarget countries for the auction results? That is one aspect of phpBay Pro that I like.

Rochelle

I don’t know why people use PHPBayPro – they just raised the price to $79. You can get BayRSS for $37 and it does absolutely EVERYTHING PHPBayPro does and more.

It allows you to add Amazon items AND eBay auctions and it also has a revenue sharing feature you can use if you have guest authors posting (giving them incentive to submit articles).

Rochelle