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  • Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: MySQL Query for Categories
    Thread Starter tvisher

    (@tvisher)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    This is true.

    So, with a specific goal like this:

    retrieve the post date, author first name, author last name, post title, full contents, and permalink of the latest entry in the "main" section

    What functions might I call from the WordPress codebase? The more I look at the code the more it seems to be a web. I just need something quick until I can take the time to understand it more, know what I mean?

    Thanks in advance!

    Timmy V.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: MySQL Query for Categories
    Thread Starter tvisher

    (@tvisher)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    OK,

    Here’s the basic story. I have a website (http://burningones.com/) with a lovingly crafted look and feel and lots of custom code involved in it. However, I’m not nearly good enough at web programming to come up with my own blogging software so I want to be able to have blogging software that I can use to manage my blog, but I don’t want to use the software as the main means of displaying it.

    So, I have the blog set up with a few different categories. I would like the main page to display the most recent post in the “Main” category. I would also like a few other categories to be able to display information on my front page. Once I’m done with this, I can use the software and still have my look and feel. After this is done, I’m given a little breathing room to figure out how to Template WordPress so that it looks like the rest of the site. My end-goal would be to have WordPress seamlessly integrated into the website so that all of the flashiness of WordPress would actually be taken away and it would just look like my site. This is going to take me a ton of time as I have very little time to work on the site (< 4 hours a week) so until then I’m cool with just having the frontpage look right but have people kicked out to a WordPressy page until I can get the Template right. Then, of course, I’ll eventually totally strip WordPress Presentation out and just keep its admin interface (which is really awesome).

    Hope that all helps. It’s a bit rambly, but I think I got what I want to do across. Let me know if anything’s unclear.

    Timmy V.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: MySQL Query for Categories
    Thread Starter tvisher

    (@tvisher)

    18 years, 5 months ago

    I suppose that the only reason I’m heading in this direction is because this is how I did it with bBlog. I see it as a quick solution that I can duct-tape on while I try to come up with the time to figure out which wordpress functions I would need to use, etc. etc.

    If anyone wants to point me to the file I should look at in the WordPress codebase then I’d be more than happy to do it that way, as this way is turning out to be a little more work than it was with bBlog.

    Thanks for the responses.

    Timmy V.

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