incorporating WP into existing site

  • Resolved jeranon

    (@jeranon)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    Hello, my name is Jeremy Schultz. I am currently trying to get a blog up and running for http://jeranon.com/
    It is entirely possible that this has been covered a million times, but I’ve had several unproductive searches, and would ask that if it’s been done, please just point me in the right direction.
    My blog is in the directory: http://jeranon.com/blog/
    I would like to get posts, comments, and discussions all accessible from my page: http://jeranon.com/pages/blog/ I would like to keep my site’s theme active and just incorporate the blog w/o the styling into my site.
    Is this possible? Do I even make sense? See, I’ve found a few “how-to’s”, but I’m completely lost, and I’ve not been able to get them to work. The main problem is that I have no PHP experience, and I am truly clueless as to what needs to be fixed. Thank you for your time.
    Jer

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  • Thread Starter jeranon

    (@jeranon)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    perhaps it’s pertinent, my installation of WP is 2.0.1
    Has anyone had any success w/ incorporating WP 2.0.1 into their site? Thank you again for your time

    lunabyte

    (@lunabyte)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Not exactly sure what you’re trying to accomplish from your description.

    I just completed a full integration of WordPress into a site that runs a portal/cms system, so it’s still fresh in my mind.

    I checked your links that you provided, but I’m still a little in the dark on what you are trying to accomplish.

    To be honest, you could use WordPress for the entire site.

    WordPress has a page feature built into it, and it could easily reproduce your entire site. All you would need to do is create a new theme to match your current design.

    Or, you could keep your current design structure, and for the blog directory simply use WordPress, and create a theme to match your current site.

    Or, if you do not want to display the actual blog at all, you can add in the data from WordPress into your own page. By doing this, you could keep the actual application separate, and just display the content you’d like.

    However, without modification it’s still going to insert links to go to the particular post, which may defeat this purpose.

    If you could provide a little more info to what you are wanting to accomplish, someone could better help out.

    Right now it reads like you want the blog at /blog, and blog posts at /pages/blog, which basically would be that same data on two pages.

    Thread Starter jeranon

    (@jeranon)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Well, I’m giving this a try, thanx!

    dvgrrl

    (@dvgrrl)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Or, if you do not want to display the actual blog at all, you can add in the data from WordPress into your own page. By doing this, you could keep the actual application separate, and just display the content you’d like.”

    This is exactly what I was asking about yesterday! What data do I include to do this? I would soooo appreciate any help you can offer. I don’t have a live site to show you yet, but hopefully you can tell what I want to do.
    dvgrrl

    silkjaer

    (@silkjaer)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    You need to include the wp-config file in the top of your site, then manually do your own “$wpdb->” querys – that would be the easiest way imho.

    Else you could completely do it manually and connect to the db manually, make a standard mysql query etc etc..

    The easiest way of “integration” would be to do a complete move of the design into wordpress. WP really has a easy theme-system (if you know your way around (x)html/css), and is really easy to modify handling of things if you have a little php experience..

    dvgrrl

    (@dvgrrl)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for the reply – that certainly helps! My concern with having the whole thing within WP is that the client’s staff could potentially change parts of the site they shouldn’t…

    But I suppose I can make the other pages static using the templates… hmmm I think I should just go ahead and do the whole site in WP!

    Thanks again

    silkjaer

    (@silkjaer)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    you can make a special account for them, and change their userlevel, which mean you can control what they can, and cant do / mess with

    dvgrrl

    (@dvgrrl)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Bingo!

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