Joy
(@joyously)
Yes, the .htaccess file that WordPress uses specifically checks each request. If it’s an existing file or directory, then it is served. Otherwise, the index.php file of WordPress is loaded (which then figures out what content to show based on the request).
You can install WordPress in a subfolder and have it only active there, or it can reside in a folder and still affect the root domain. It just depends on how you want your URLs to look.
Thanks Joy.
I didn’t get a good hold of it.
Can you delve deeper on how to do it or are there any links which could help me out?
Many of the links which I came across are either obsolete or end up confusing me
Joy
(@joyously)
You don’t say which part is confusing.
So, you have your existing site, perhaps with folders:
example.com (this is the root)
/images
/sometopic
/whatever
Your site has its URLs like example.com and example.com/sometopic/mydetails.htm.
Now you want to add more, dynamically. The more that you add with WP can be in the root (example.com itself or example.com/mynewpage) or in a folder (example.com/CMS/mydynamicpage) or just look like it’s in a folder (example.com/category/newcategory).
If you want all the new “CMS” stuff to have the same URL, just put WordPress in a folder of that name and you’re done.
But if you want to merge the new stuff amongst the existing site, you can do that also, if you are careful that you won’t be using the same names for new categories and pages as your existing files.
WordPress can be in a folder or in the root. Even if it’s in a folder, it can control the root (just putting two files in the root).
First decide what you want your URLs to look like. Then that will inform how to install WordPress.
Using Permalinks
Thank you so much Joy ❤️.
I actually wanted to edit content dynamically
Like a client should be able to do that without any coding.
I stumbled upon ACF and it solved my problem as I created a wordpress theme and then used ACF
