Help is to hand. The Gemini template is ideal for you – now patched for WP 1.5 at least. Kindly hosted for download at http://thebombsite.com. Its a doddle to edit.
2 ways:
If you just dump the contents of your theme into index.php at the root of your site (rather than the theme directory) and ignore the fact that themes even exist, as long as your mod_rewrite configuration is all OK, this should work.
Or, alternatively: make a new folder with your current index.php and style.css files in (and rename them that). Stick them into the themes directory. Activate that theme. It will work. You don’t need headers, footers, single page templates – at the very most you just require an index.php and a style.css . Leave the index.php at the root of the site as normal.
The extra functionality the themes provide make it easier to manage more complex weblogs and sites (and indeed, I’ve been using WordPress as more a CMS and less a blogging engine). They are by no means vital or necessary.
i’d have to say that the themes manager actually makes it easier to manage your webpage/design, you can turn off themes and just go back to your original design. i believe you just need to go into the root index.php file and change
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
to
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false);
and then I think you can use your old template without making any changes, although i’m not positive as I’ve never done this myself.
