tsk tsk – yes you can. You guys with your hammers — everything looks like a wordpress nail. Well, out there, there are plenty of sites with many manhours of work in them that don’t “just rewrite” conveniently into a wordpress template. You know, like some people expect the light bulb to be made to fit the car, not the other way around. I’ve been running into this all week trying to figure out the best way to put the 2 together. I’m beginning to conclude that I should just stick with the current stuff and kiss off wordpress until someone thinks it is worthwhile to have it augment prebuilt professional sites.
If you want bits and pieces, someone did write that up – In my case, I used the one html page (main page), put in the proper require, put the php code in where I wanted 5 subjects to be listed, and it works (I have a separate folder with wordpress fully in it and point to the pieces that I want and then call them). I had to make it php and I did that by a require of the html into a new php file. And things are missing — they click on a subject and bounce off to a wordpress article, well, they can’t get back. Also, all my other html points to index.html, not index.php.
So, yes, you can put bits into your real site. I’m getting the feeling that nothing has been engineered into wordpress to actually support that type of thing — you know, like what could really benefit the real world.. Nah, we just tell people to rewrite their website as wordpress templates. Oh well, maybe someday both the simple tools will be there and some thought that people aren’t necessarily crazy about rewriting $200K of website because wordpress “won’t” work in other websites…. well, it does — apparently despite itself?? 😉
I have to say, there are a ton of templates there. Also, most suffer from text flowing off or on top of other stuff, columns that must not fit because the sidebar is 15 feet down by the floor instead of beside the left column, and all the pages look pretty much the same (except text). Seems to be a downside of wordpress – Can you blend header with content area to give different smooth looks? I doubt it. How about using wordpress to have a different look for your FAQ than your answer-line than your news stories? How about allowing some traditional static pages with useful info? Those “normal” things seem to be a stretch for wordpress — and certainly nothing that anyone associated with wordpress would dare to think/talk about solving..
WordPress seems to be powerful enough to do all these things, but it is not designed do to so and you have to hunt all over to find someone who is trying to do something other than to have every page look the same for the site. I hope it gets past this “toy” stage — it seems like a decent product/concept… [I’m guessing you can tell that I’m real tired and should have given up on this hours ago to get some sleep… HA — yep, you’d be right…]
