Adding static pages to wordpress (content not from database)

  • Sparkieboy

    (@sparkieboy)


    13 years ago

    Hello,

    I have a strange question, and I hope I explain it properly.

    I want to use wordpress for a particular site. I want the themes, rapid deployment and ease of use.

    BUT, there are a few ‘pages’ on the site that I would like to be heavily customized and different from the rest of the site.

    I want to be able to have funky layouts (within the dimensions of the normal area reserved for a wordpress post) that has scripts that do database calls, javascript to draw charts, flash things and all sorts of nonsense.

    The easiest way I could think of was to create a separate non-wordpress page and link to it from wordpress.

    But surely there is a way to drop heaps of funky code into a wordpress page and have it work well.

    Are page templates the answer? I want layout from theme and content from static file(s) not the database.

    I don’t want the page content to come from the database – I want it to be a true static type of page that is embeded in wordpress if that makes sense?

    Grateful for any ideas,

    Sparkieboy

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  • designreact

    (@designreact)

    13 years ago

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages should contain everything you need. I only started making custom page templates recently, they allow you to do what your talking about.

    n.b. Sometimes its handy to have the page copy editable in wordpress.

    Thread Starter Sparkieboy

    (@sparkieboy)

    13 years ago

    Thanks for the info.

    So, you can basically stick any code in here you want and it will run as if wordpress was not even there?

    I mean, lets say your server interprets C++ code – you could stick that in there and it would be interpreted correctly?

    I heard that wordpress can be strange with some things and parse different code in weird ways.

    Thanks

    designreact

    (@designreact)

    13 years ago

    I’m afraid your starting to get a little out of my depth.

    I added a javascript image rotator to a template I created for the homepage here it seems to work ok. It’s pulling in images from the server which are not referenced in the database.

    Thread Starter Sparkieboy

    (@sparkieboy)

    13 years ago

    Thanks for the assistance. Will have to do some more research I guess!

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