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James Huff
(@macmanx)
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I’ve looked at the above link, but the section on creating a theme to mimic your site is lacking. In fact there’s nothing there except the suggestion to use the html base command, which I did use.
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
If you follow the above guide, you won’t need to create a theme based on your existing site. Just use your existing design and plug in the call to display your posts. Instead of bringing your design to WordPress, you bring WordPress to your design.
Your suggestion and the suggestion of the Codex is that I can grab posts from my blog and post them or list them on my web site. First, that assumes that I have a blog setup somewhere else, which I don’t. It also assumes that all I want to do is list the latest posts, which I don’t.
I need a fully functioning blog on my site. One with a sidebar and widgets. One that will be SEO friendly and drive traffic to my site. Doing things the way sugested in the Codex would actually do the opposite and take people away from my site to some remote blog, completely defeating the intent of integrating a blog.
What I want to do should not be that difficult. I’m already half way there. All I need to do is resize a blog with a fixed layout of 940 px and make it fit into a table cell that’s 868 px. From what I can tell by looking at the code, you have to make adjustments in more than one place. I need to reduce the size of both the content area and the sidebar area. I’ve been doing trial and error edits for a week and I still can’t figure it out.
Okay, so I was wrong about the remote blog aspect. I get it now. The codex is just showing you one way to list your posts on an existing website. But what I really need is a fully functioning blog that shows the categories, archives, and whatever widgets I want to use. So that leaves me with the same issue.
Since this post isn’t getting much attention, I’m going to update it and then close it. I’m still having problems, so I’ll start a new thread on the new problem.
I was able to get blog with a sidebar to work by using a two column template and sticking the sidebar php call in the second column. I don’t know if this is the best way to do it, but it’s working.
