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1. gemmabug
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,
   I have an existing website which gets some content from an exsiting database using PHP / mySQL. I am trying to re-do my website in Wordpress. I've read some posts but it all seems a bit overwhelming.
   I need a simple explanation of how to connect to to an external database and insert data into wordpress pages. If anyone could please help me with which files I would need to edit and what I need to do, I would really appreciate it.

   I am used to using Dreamweaver to insert recordsets into my pages. Is this at all possible to use Dreamweaver recordsets to insert info into Wordpress pages?

   Thanks in advance,

   Sharon

2. Ogre
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   A simple explanation is not really possible. Answering your question isn't possible without knowing more about the source of the data, e.g. database type, formatting, etc. It could be as simple as grabbing an existing title and content and shoving it into wordpress directly, or the data may need to be massaged a bit before the insertion.

   Most likely you are going to need to custom code to get the job done.

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