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Wordpress Intergration
Old 03-18-2010, 03:28 PM Wordpress Intergration
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Hi,

I've been Google'in and searching this forum for an answer and cannot find one, apologies if there is a thread somewhere.

I currently have a website I designed and built myself, i decided that i wanted to have a news page which i could update via a CMS, i turned to Wordpress; I currently have wordpress installed and running and my news page words very well and does as i need.

However, I'm currently looking to expand; what I'm after is:

  • To have every page on the site editable via Wordpress (just the contents within the content wrapper i have defined), i have searched around on Google and have tried one or 2 different approaches and nothing seams to do as i want.

  • I want to keep my current website design/layout for now.

Can anyone suggest how i go about this?
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Old 03-19-2010, 11:19 AM Re: Wordpress Intergration
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If you want your html, etc to remain exactly(almost) as it is now then you can do this:

1. You need to make sure you are using the same header/footer across your site as in your news page so that your whole site is powered through wordpress.

2. Create a page in wp for each of your site's existing pages. Place your content as normal through the admin area for each page.

3. Within your existing coded pages, create a loop within your content area that calls that specific page you created in step 2.(The content you want to manage with wp)

Example:

Code:
<div id="content">
<?php query_posts('pagename=about'); ?>

//The Loop
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

// your content would be displayed here
<?php the_content(); ?>

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
</div>
Everything else on the page can remain the same. This is only one example.

I will say, however, there are easier cms's for just a simple area to edit.(Just google easy cms). With Wordpress or any cms you should be taking advantage of a page "template" that all or most of the pages follow. Then you aren't editing so many files down the road even if you have 100 pages.
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