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1. winegoddess
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello.

   I want to understand the best practice when integrating WordPress
   with an existing website that has other functionality besides the
   Wordpress blog.

   I have installed WordPress in a subdirectory of the root, called blog.
   I have been able to make it look like the website by modifying the header.php, sidebar.php, footer.php, etc

   >docroot > blog > wp-content > themes > customTheme >

   My question is in using the navigation now, to my other non WordPress pages that are located in docroot. How to best structure this so that I refer to the same header.php, footer.php without need for duplication?

   >docroot > other directories and PHP files

   I have been surfing this site and if I have missed something obvious, my apologies.

   Thanks!

   ~WG

2. winegoddess
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   anyone?

   Well, maybe to explain further, and hopefully get a bite on this thread, I have pages which are database driven, and use JQuery and AJAX. These are not the sort of pages that I want to have modified by the admin through the WordPress Page editor.

   since my index.php, header.php, footer,php are at:
   >docroot > blog > wp-content > themes > customTheme >

   and I want tose to be used by these other files located here:
   >docroot > other_directories

   how should I best include the header.php, sidebar.php, footer.php?

   Straight includes to the theme directory result in issues with calls to wordpress functions such as language_attributes().

   Any help is much appreciated - thanks!

   Winegoddess

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