Hitokage
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
I am brand new to wordpress. I normally free-hand CSS and HTML for websites, but someone wanted to be able to blog so here I am working on a site in wordpress and I have a few questions.
I want to really use the wordpress actual blogging capabilities on the front page of the site (updates) - can I do that and still leave the rest of the site without it being on WordPress (pure CSS and HTML).
Second - I need that front page to have a menu built into it at the top. Without being able to affect the HTML of the page, how exactly does one put a full menu system (I have quite a bit that needs to be done with this menu) in?
Good place to start - thank you for any help.
can I do that and still leave the rest of the site without it being on WordPress
Sure - no problem. To avoid any possible issues with directory index files, it might be best if you install WP in a sub-folder on the site but that's about it.
how exactly does one put a full menu system
What would this menu cover? The whole site? Or just the blog? If you want to use WP's dynamic custom menu capabilities, you might want to look at:
Creating custom menus
Navigation_Menus
Hitokage
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
I need the menu to cover the whole site. I really just want to be able to use my own menu because it will be going across the whole site and I want it to remain the same. Can I do that?
Yes you can. Just add your menu's HTML & CSS to your theme.
Hitokage
Member
Posted 4 months ago #
Esmi - I'm not sure I understand. How can you put the HTML into the stylesheet? Or is there another place to edit the page that I'm missing?
Assuming you want it in the header, you put the HTML into header.php of your theme.
Whether there's a header.php file is theme specific, but there should be one.
