Need super-simple HTML/CSS to WordPress conversion help

  • Resolved AlliedMoon

    (@alliedmoon)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    Yes, I’ve read the other threads on this, but they all discuss heavy customization or ground-up building of themes

    I really just want the html to be exactly the same but work in WordPress. Unfortunately, the code doesn’t seem to be delineated in an easily parsed way. I tried following both tutorials, but the html doesn’t have sidebar information and I get tangled up in the creation of a bunch of irrelevant php files. I’ve also tried dropping the stylesheet and index into a simple theme, but that doesn’t work either.

    This is the template I want

    If it wasn’t obvious that I am a complete n00b before, I am. This is my first attempt at anything other than basic html and I feel like an idiot.

    Let me know what I can do. I’m even willing to pay a coder to do this for me.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    I can’t seem to get to your template demo but that ‘bunch of irrelevant php files’ is probably the very theme files that you need to edit/create in order to create the markup/design you want. Dropping a standard index file into a WP theme won’t work because you won’t have all of the hooks and functions that generate the headers.footers sidebars etc.

    Drop me a line at esmi at quirm dot net if you want to take this offlist.

    Thread Starter AlliedMoon

    (@alliedmoon)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks. Let me clarify where I get snagged.

    Following the tutorial, I’m parsing out the header and footer and creating separate php files. There are a couple of other elements- no sidebar, but a contact box, a gallery, and a “showcase.” I tried parsing each of these elements between the <div> markers and saving them as individual phps.

    Then in the index file, I’m replacing the code with a <?php command for each element.

    Once I upload the phps, the index (saved as a php), and the style css file, I thought it would work.

    Instead, the template is blank, with some extra bracketed code at the very beginning (from the header, I guess?) and no style sheet integration at all, just a mess of text on a white background. I’ve activated it- you can visit my page to see the wonkiness: http://www.alliedmoon.com

    Hope that makes more sense. Any help would be greatly appeciated- I’m pulling my hair out over this.

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    stop editing .php file using word. use a PLAIN TEXT EDITOR.

    what you see there is a result of that.

    Thread Starter AlliedMoon

    (@alliedmoon)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    I used Text Edit, not Word. Is that not good enough?

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    i dunno, but that’s definitely whats going on with what I saw on your site.

    if you need more, chceck this

    see the example, 

    {\rtf1\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss Helvetica;}\f0\pard
This is some {\b bold} text.\par
}
    Thread Starter AlliedMoon

    (@alliedmoon)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Text Edit had some defaults that were making it rich text.

    Thanks, whooami, I wouldn’t have checked that had you not mentioned it.

    It’s working now!

    ~A

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