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automatically-playing music is incredibly annoying, even for music sites… I *hate* that most people are so accustomed to it now, that you almost HAVE to do it, or people start scratching their heads and wondering why you didn’t.

set up a page with a pretty music player and a playlist, and just let visitors open that in a tab (or a new browser window) while they surf around – or go off to a completely different website.

chances are, even if you only have 3 songs on the site, you’re likely to have 10 minutes of other content to keep people busy while they listen, so why not make it easy for them to go wherever they want, while they keep a tab or a window open?

better yet… set up a playlist that opens streaming music in their favourite music player (or windows media player, if they don’t have a favourite)… with album art, and the whole deal.

take the music out of the damned browser in the first place.

how did you comment the whole plugin file AFTER YOU DELETED IT?

exactly.

Well colour me surprised at the cascading set of events.

I’m really glad you’re happy. 🙂

hah… I’m for it.

actually, given that a lot of less technical users tend to post by pasting from MS word… and MS word has a nifty save as HTML feature…

what *is* wrong with going back to ye olde HTML pages? 😉

I think the best way to integrate is not to.

really, theming wordpress into an existing site is more copy/pasted than anything else. If your needs for a blog are minimal – that is, a blog chronology and a single posts page, then you only really need to work up two templates, and an is_category conditional to display your cat links as excerpts via the index template.

two files.

as for the css, it is quite possible to use your existing site’s styles on your wordpress theme. Even if the wordpress classes are a bit different, there’s nothing stopping you from specifying multiple class names, or nested elements in your existing CSS.

so what’s left to do? make two pages with a couple of php functions in them which remain identical for every site you make from here on?

big deal.

better than dealing with the fallout of integration and trying to integrate the targets of any hyperlinks in your blog format, yadda yadda…

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I will tell you something for free, though…

if you’re integrating wordpress into your webside designs, then you’re *NOT* using the right CMS for making your sites in the first place.

there are a lot of choices for CMSs, and the vast majority of them offer an easy way to stuff a blog template into your design. If you’re not using any of those already, then you could consider using wordpress to manage the whole site, and forget about pointless static pages.

think it over.

Hi,

you wanna edit all that out, and post it to http://wordpress.pastebin.com please?

Also, please actually make mention of why you’re pasting it… be specific about your problem.

What kind of invite system are we talking about here? Does it lock-down your posts?

you don’t even need the ‘if home’ part usually… make the change to your theme’s index.php, put query posts before the “while” loop in that template, and you’re golden.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts
http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop

Joni, customers tend to choose like-minded service providers 🙂

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OP, consider offering your client an “introductory support package” when you deliver the site. I’m not really a web designer, but I do work in a service industry, so I think it makes good sense for you to offer them a “good deal” on some customised assistance with their new site.

It’s as easy as adding the offer to the end of your invoice.

That way they know that they’ve just paid you for the design, not for a lifetime of slave labour, and they also know how they should proceed if they’re willing to pay for some support to get them started.

Yay for upselling 😉

Just a thought 😉