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Is WordPress practical for my type of website? (2 posts)

  1. wilsonf1
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Hey!

    I have some basic experience of WordPress for some quick and uncomplicated websites and love it for that purpose.

    I have one website which has 1100 pages, which are stored in my personal CMS which I wrote. The pages get built to static ASP files.

    I feel like my site is growing rapidly and I really want to make use of the cool features in WordPress.

    In terms of the blog part of my website, wordpress is obviously a no brainer. But I have sub sections too - like pages that sell products.

    Some of my current webpages have ASP (which I can convert to PHP no problem) have includes that sit at the top of them and runs specific code for that particular page.

    I wonder how practical that is to implement if my site was WordPressed. I'd need the ability to say "hey, run this php function when the page loads please", but only for certain pages.

    I have have pages where I run some custom javascript when it loads. How practical is that for WordPress. If I have a stand alone page that does some whizzy jquery stuff - hoow do I got about implementing a javascript just on that one page?

    Another example is a contact us thank you page that runs the mail script. I see there is a plugin for this - is this how everything codey is done, via plugins?

    Also - in terms of importing all my content: I see there is a RSS import feature. Does that mean I could output my entire 1100 pages from my CSS as valid RSS and WordPress could create pages from it? (including my specific file names?)

    Any tips would be great whilst I evaluate whether to make the plunge or not.

  2. Samuel B
    moderator
    Posted 10 months ago #

    you can create as many unique page templates as you like to execute code
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates

    and yes there are plugins for nearly anything now
    just do a google search for anything you might need

    also
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/
    search here of course

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