Integrating WordPress into existing pages?

  • munter

    (@munter)


    19 years ago

    Hello,

    I have a site on which, among others, there are two pages “News” and “Events”. Would it be possible to set up wordpress so that posts could be read on one or other page while remaining tightly integrated with the style sheet for the site?

    It’s a three column site and ideally, posts would sit within the “content” column while the other two remained as they are for all other pages.

    Alternatively, is there some other software I could use for this? – The reason I need it is because the site’s owner wants to be able to update the news pages himself and I don’t want him to break anything. Also, the RSS capability of WordPress makes it attractive….

    Thanks!

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  • walterego

    (@walterego)

    19 years ago

    Why not just port the site to WordPress? It works excellent as a CMS as well.

    Other solution would maybe be to use an iframe?

    Thread Starter munter

    (@munter)

    19 years ago

    Thanks for your reply Waterego!

    The though of porting the site into WordPress gives me the fear since I’ve spent a great deal of time making it so far (I’m not a pro, but I’m rather proud of it) and therefore I’m feeling all precious over it.

    Using an iframe would be fine provided it allows me to only include the main body (the posts themselves) since I want to keep the navigation in the original site elements. Also, might I assume this would create an issue when search engines tried to index the news page?

    Might it be possible to use a php include and just grab those bits of the WordPress output I needed? If so, which of the files are these likely to be?

    walterego

    (@walterego)

    19 years ago

    About Search engine friendliness, you’ll have to google. If you’re going to use an iframe just make a theme that has only the content you want on it (so no sidebar, no header, no nothing).

    About the php include, I don’t know. You’d have to include the wordpress/index.php file i guess, and then once again use a theme that has only the content you want.

    Thread Starter munter

    (@munter)

    19 years ago

    Hmm….tried including the index.php file but it doesn’t work. Bah.

    Thread Starter munter

    (@munter)

    19 years ago

    Really having trouble getting my head around this problem. Apologies for the shameless bump, but I’m running out of ideas!

    Any further help very much appreciated.

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