Integrating WordPress into my XHTML and CSS Coding

  • erika1b

    (@erika1b)


    19 years ago

    I’m trying to leave MT forever and move over to WordPress. Everything is installed, auto install from Fantastico. My host is A Small Orange.

    WordPress is installed into a subdirectory called “wp” in my www folder. My site is http://www.fluximagery.com.

    I did my own html and css, coded all of my pages, used images, did the whole thing. So I have about five pages or so. Then on the blog page, with the same code, there is a div for the main content just like the rest. But on this one, this is where I want the wordpress info to go so my blog shows up in the main content on that page. Just like contact info is on main content area of the contact page, etc.

    Once I have WordPress intact and I can see it on my page, posts are uploading to the correct spot and looking great, that’s when I’m going to import my posts from mt over and hopefully never look at mt again.

    The way that mt is set up, you login to the page which is in a subdirectory of http://www.five3.com, called “mt”. Just like I did with WordPress, it’s in a subdirectory in the root folder, called “wp”.

    Anyway, you log in and then you get to the “manage weblog” part. Then you have templates. It is connected in such a way that when you update the template, rebuild the file, it is refelcted on your site. Because that is where the code is.

    So that’s what I’m trying to do with WordPress. Find the template I’m supposed to change, put the theme code inside of my main code, copy and paste to the template, and make changes to the css accordingly. But when I enter the path to templates and such, I get an error with “public_html” in the path.

    Is this the right way to go about this in WordPress?

    Please let me know, any help is appreciated. If this is in the wrong place, let my know.

    Thank you.

    Very confused and frustrated,
    Erika

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  • rudolf45

    (@rudolf45)

    19 years ago

    The very first thing should be: forget how MT works and learn the WP way. It’s different. Don’t even try to “replicate” the old way. Try to understand WP’s theme system.
    Good places to start:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout

    Thread Starter erika1b

    (@erika1b)

    19 years ago

    Thanks so much, I’m reading up right now.

    Long way to go…

    Thread Starter erika1b

    (@erika1b)

    19 years ago

    Okay, I’ve read up for hours and I’m still stuck. All I want is wordpress to act as my blogging software on this page: http://www.fluximagery.com/index.html. I want the data for archives and categories on the left under the navigation.

    That’s it.

    However, I can’t find a way to go about this. I thought I could just take a “theme” and manipulate it the way I want but every theme I choose is not writable. I am well versed in html, my site validates. But are the only choices I have to either use a theme and have my blog look completely different than my site or pick a theme and make my site into pages through WordPress?

    I love my site design and spent a lot of time on it, if you know a way to do what I am requesting, please let me know because the documents are not helping at all at this point.

    rudolf45

    (@rudolf45)

    19 years ago

    You make a theme based on your own design. Everybody is doing it.

    The simplest tehem has an index.php file and a style.css file.

    Iin the index file you will have to place all the template tags, which are actually, functions defined in the WP engine: they do the “legwork” for you. E.g. display the categories, the archives, the posts, the comments etc.
    Take the classic (one of the simplest themes in the world) and try to look at it in the light of what I said above.
    Note: the usual index file of a site is “sliced” in several pieces in a WP theme. You can get an idea about it on this page.

    Thread Starter erika1b

    (@erika1b)

    19 years ago

    Ok, so I understand that because it’s broken down in the Theme Editor. I can see the codes and understand what they change and how everything functions.

    So now, when you create a theme yourself, what program do you do that in? I use a mac and when I wrote my html and css, I used textedit. I’m using Cyberduck to ftp. When I see my php files, they are set to open in GoLive.

    Do you have any suggestions on what program I should be using to create my own php for my theme?

    Also, how do I have my blog point to http://www.fluximagery.com/index.html. I have my page set up so the blog is the homepage. First thing you see.

    rudolf45

    (@rudolf45)

    19 years ago

    Starting from the bottom. You’ll delete that index.html file and you will have there WP’s index.php. That’s solved 🙂

    Use a simple text editor. http://codex.wordpress.org/Glossary#Text_editor

    I don’t remember how does it works on a Mac but there should be a way to associate file extensions with certain programs.

    Thread Starter erika1b

    (@erika1b)

    19 years ago

    Do you happen to have any site examples of people who have done what I’m trying to do? I’m about to tear my hair out.

    This is way too difficult. 🙁

    jabecker

    (@jabecker)

    19 years ago

    Instead of trying to incorporate WP into your site, why don’t you use WP as a content manager and build your site in it? If that makes sense.

    I’m doing something totally different with my blog than you are doing with yours, but I think the structure is similar. The front page is my blog. The buttons in the navigation bar link to static pages. Persistent Illusion

    Root

    (@root)

    19 years ago

    You are making things way too difficult for yourself because you are carrying some quite sophisticated experience of how things work on other platforms. You are going at WordPress ass backward.

    Thread Starter erika1b

    (@erika1b)

    19 years ago

    I know, that’s why I’m here. I spent all day yesterday trying to work this out with the themes and whatnot. There are two options that I can think of at this point.

    Hemingway is the best theme I’ve seen so far and I would love to just put my links to my other pages in the About section and be done with it.

    Or, last night I found this site with four blank themes. So right now, that’s what I’m working with.

    Change my thinking because I love the possibilities with WordPress and I’m eager to get back to blogging.

    Also, I was working off of this tutorial before I found the four blank themes.

    Thread Starter erika1b

    (@erika1b)

    19 years ago

    Okay, I think this is the last comment I’m going to make in this thread. I have a few questions.

    1.) Can I change my directory from “wp” to “blog” without having any problems?

    2.) Can I change the About area to say “flux imagery” instead of “About” and can I change the wording underneath to links to my fluximagery page?

    I just chose to have separate pages and Hemingway is just too darn cute to hack into IMO.

    Thanks guys for all the feedback and support 🙂

    rudolf45

    (@rudolf45)

    19 years ago

    1. Yes. If you follow a few steps:
    a) admin > Options: change the two URI values to the new one
    b) Update options and don’t worry about the error message
    c) don’t try to see your blog in a browser
    d) via FTP rename the folder
    e) now you can look at your blog

    2. I don’t know where that “About” is. Are we talking about your design or about the Hemingway theme? (which H? there are at least 3 versions)
    I think that’s a Page, so you should be able to find it under Manage > Pages.

    Thread Starter erika1b

    (@erika1b)

    19 years ago

    Awesome, no. 1 is done!

    And for no. 2, I think you’re on the right track. The Hemingway 0.19 was the one I was referring to, over here.

    you rock!

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