Help with wordpress

[duquecigars]

I was woundering if anyone on here could tell me how to install wordpress or if anyone on here could tell me the best add on to use for a blog or mabe a forum?

[kobra]

WordPress is easier to install than Zen Cart....

Many forums can be installed

Which do you want or both?

[duquecigars]

I was thinking both but not sure !

I was told that the wordpress blog would help with my site traffic and I already do four other blogs ie. blogger ect on the topic of my site so if it would help traffic then I guess I should do it on my own site.

I was thinking forum becouse my site topic has tons of forums and we all love to chat so I would like to keep my customers as close as I can but I don't want to mess up my site by slowing it down or makeing it look cheap so I was hoping for some advice before I go throwing add on's every where

[kobra]

Do you mean that you have 4 blogs or that you know of 4 blogs?
If they are yours, you do not need one attached to this store just have links and "Good" content about your site on a blog is what works for now.

A Forum that you administer where others can ask and share with out going to the competition is most likely a good idea.

Each can be seperate and even with their own domain name as an add-on domain if you are allowed to do this or just as a subdomain - whatever works for you

[duquecigars]

Yes I do four blogs on my sites topic (cigars) on other blog sites every so often I may say something about my site but not to much.

[duquecigars]

The forum sounds like a good thing and I do have sub domains to use for something.

[kobra]

This might interest you
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95776

[duquecigars]

Yeap talked to him a week ago he said use wordpress.

[duquecigars]

I use my blogs as a sounding board to the topic to give info I come across and to keep on top of whats hot and so on. I don't want to use the blogs I have been doing for shameless self permotion so I have tryed very hard to say as little as possable about me on the blogs I have at other bloging networks.

[duquecigars]

Thank you for all your help Kobra you have been a big help