Why not just use wp as a content management system? all the design is (is html) anyways with php tags for the blog. Its sorta hard to explain. Design it how you want your website to look and instead of blogpost, make pages (sorta like blog post) for your content.
There are separate templates pages for both.
index.php (not matter how its styled refers to the blog index) so if you have a static page as an index page it will pull the design from page.php
I’ve considered it, but I put a lot of work into designing my site and don’t really want to have to start all over from scratch. I also don’t want to be limited by WP.
I’m not sure I understand your last sentence …?
OK. I guess I do not see wp being a limitation.
Well, I went ahead and started rebuilding my site in WP, since there seems to be no other way to do it. After two days of work, I can tell you that WP makes things easier (than CSS) in some ways, harder in others.
I really wish I didn’t have to spend a week rebuilding a perfectly good site just to have a blog on the main page. Sigh.
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
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If you haven’t gotten rid of your original site, you can integrate WordPress by following this guide:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website
Thanks. I read over that page, but it seems to assume that your existing site is PHP. What about if your site is HTML?
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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
Your existing site can still be HTML. Basically, just take the index.html file that you want to add the posts to, rename it to index.php (this is necessary for PHP execution and won’t harm anything), and follow the guide linked to above.
Huh, OK. Thanks.
Now I am totally undecided because I have already put 2+ days work into rebuilding my site on WP!
