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title: "WordPress Tip: Questions I’m Often Asked About WordPress and Blogging"
date: 2009-01-08
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# WordPress Tip: Questions I’m Often Asked About WordPress and Blogging
My WordPress consulting side business has been getting a lot of attention lately. In fact, I've been struggling to keep up. (I do this, by the way, mainly on the weekends.) Over the last several projects, I've noticed a common trend of questions about WordPress and blogging. Here's what everyone asks.

### I already have a site. How can I add a WordPress blog to it?

Although it's possible to customize a WordPress [theme based on your existing site](https://idratherbewriting.com/2008/12/28/integrating-wordpress-into-an-existing-website/), you can buy a premium theme that probably looks better than your original site for about $100. You can then migrate the content from your original site to the WordPress blog, which will function as a micro-content management system.

When you install the blog, if you install it in your web's root folder (not in a subdirectory), your blog will load as the default site -- just remove the original site's index file. Of course, no theme is perfect out of the box, so you'll likely want to customize it a bit. But having one site for all your content will greatly simplify your life. 

Here are a few sites that sell premium themes:

- [iThemes](http://ithemes.com/)

- [Revolution](http://www.revolutiontheme.net/)

- [Woothemes](http://www.woothemes.com/)

And some resources for free themes:

- [Smashing Magazine (site search for WordPress themes)](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/)

- [The WordPress Theme directory](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes)

- [WordPress Hacks](http://wphacks.com/)

- [Weblog Tools Collection](http://weblogtoolscollection.com)