I managed multiple wordpress sites. One of my clients has a number of small onepage sites who are using the same base theme.
Because I'm working on this theme on a regular base and want to update al the site using it, I was wondering if there's a way to use a theme from one location/ different domain so I only have to update the theme one time instead of every single site.
Ive tried tools like ManageWP, they actually work pretty nice, but it needs an extra plugin (which cannot be updated within this tool).
I could think of something like a wordpress function which says: insert url of theme folder.
Anyone think this is possible?
Thanks.
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I want to create somethink like this. But i don't know how exactly to do it. As you can see, we have multilingual and multicontent site (btutton at the top of site).
First decision it's create two folders in main domain directory and install two different sites. But i think it's not good idea, because it would be to hard manage this sites.
Please help.
you can create a multisite using Wordpress Network .
I don't think a multi site is the way to go. Multi sites are useful when you have multiple sites that use the same styling, plugins, custom PHP, etc but unique content. Typically, multi sites each have their own domain.
It depends a little bit on how distinct you want your two sub-sites to be, but if you're trying to replicate the Vogel's website, I would suggest you just create a few extra pages for your unique content. If you look at the Vogel's site, the consumer/professional toggle is essentially just a link to two different landing pages. You can easily save the choice that users make via cookies so they always see that page as the homepage in the future.
For the multilingual aspect, you can use a plugin like WPML to take care of that for you. It really isn't necessary to build an entirely new site unless you expect everything (including styling, plugins, etc) to be completely different.
I had a Magento theme downloaded and i want to use it to my wordpress site. I searched wordpress version of the theme but no luck. Is there a way i can convert magento theme to wordpress theme?
There is no automatic way to do that, you will need to migrate your theme manually, with that I mean, you will need to code the theme in WordPress.
There's no way of magically rewriting a Magento theme into a Wordpress theme.
Like Enrique said, you will need to recode the entire thing.. well, almost, at least. This really depends on whether or not you simply want them to look the same or to actually be structured identically. The former is easier.
You can most likely salvage the majority of the skin folder, especially css and js. Then it's a matter of matching up Magento element names to corresponding Wordpress element names. An example might be .button and .btn.
As far as the structure, you may want to simply view source on the theme as it renders on the actual site, grab the source and do some heavy analysis. Figure out which portions render in the header, content and footer and try to piece them into the corresponding Wordpress files. It's a daunting task but believe it or not, I've done similar things before.
Note that Wordpress is nowhere near as complex in terms of application structure as Magento, so you'd really be dumbing down the Magento theme to accomplish this.
To convert your theme unfortunately you will have to manually rebuild it line by line for Wordpress. You said that you could not find the wordpress version of the theme but if possible the theme vendors might have HTML or PSD versions of the theme which would be a much closer starting point than Magento to Wordpress conversion.
I have never developed Wordpress website from scratch or from default template or from parent theme or from starter theme. I mean, I have maintained already created WP websites.
However, now I want to try to create WP from the beginning. I have mock up of website that is something liek booklet, this means, that it has many pages (about 40) and all pages differes with content - some has images, some has additional graphics, some has text etc. Website consists mainly of static pages with different layout.
What are your suggestions for newby... Previosly i have read much about underscore and thematic and I like both. Are tehre suitable for my purpsoes?
I always use undersores.me as a starter theme for the following reasons:
I don't have to dig trough the parent theme documentation for hooks and filters
It is not bloated with unnecessary functions
Download package is customized with your theme name and slug, meaning that functions have appropriate prefixes/names
We have many (hundreds) of clients that require basic, content-oriented websites. We are currently using simple WordPress deployments for these clients, but would like to make things more simple.
Is there a tool that exists that will let us white-label, or "re-use", a basic WordPress website and simply injecting some text and images into it to create a whole new website?
The process would look something like:
1. Have new client that needs website
2. Gather some client info (phone number, images, biography, etc.)
3. Inject this info into a previously created WordPress "template" site
(we would use the same template for all clients)
4. Pick a WordPress theme
5. And done. We now have a rebranded WordPress site for this client with minimal work
done.
Step 3 is where we need help? Is there something that already exists that can do this? If not, what is a good method to do this "injection"? We were thinking just creating a small app that would go through the template WordPress site and do a find-and-replace.
Perhaps it would be good to simply write a plugin which would allow you to gather exactly what info you need in a settings panel there, then inject the information into whatever theme you're using from there.
So it would be a relatively simple step as you create new sites to install the plugin, use it to add information, etc. (Perhaps if most of it is client information, it stores the information with admin user information).
Well if you want to be able to re-use your branding, you could do them in your theme's function.php, so its kind of "portable"
For example, when I re-brand a wp site, and customize their wp-login. Change logos and stuff.
and things like, hide menu of theme-editor, plugin-editor, etc
all goes together, and I put the codes in the functions.php
I have made a site using html, css and javascript and is only on my local machine and have not put it onto a server yet, but i was wondering if i could use a cms on this site like wordpress? The site is only 5 pages but i have done all the styling myself.
Would i just have to install wordpress to the server and add the files there maybe? Or is there a lot of changes needed to make this work?
I have very little knowledge of PHP but i am a quick learner if that counts for anything.
Thanks for help.
Simple answer: yes
More complicated answer: why?
If your site is only 5 pages, and you've custom designed and built your layout, then I'm not sure what WordPress will add for you.
That said, if you want to add a blog or the like, WP would certainly be nice to have.
If you want to go that route, you have a few options:
use WordPress for everything, using the 5 pages you made as 'pages' inside of WordPress. You'll have to modify what you built for that to some extent.
leave the 5 pages as-is but add WordPress 'next to it' and run the blog/cms content from there. It can look the same, or maybe you want it to look a bit different.
leave your 5-page site as-is, and use WordPress or another CMS product on a separate server. You can set it up as a subdomain and then either install your own, or leverage something like Posterous or Wordpress.com
The short answer to your question is:
it will take some effort, you won't be able to just drop the files and install wordpress and have everything work immediately. With some work, though, it is definitely possible.
If you've done the styling and you want to incorporate that into wordpress you'll have to go through the process of creating your own theme. http://themeshaper.com/2009/06/22/wordpress-themes-templates-tutorial/ Try this site to see what that requires. Alternatively, google "creating your own wordpress theme" or something similar.
It will require some extensive PHP work, but a lot of these tutorials have already done that heavy lifting for you. In any case, it will be worth it for your to pick up some PHP skills, enough to follow along the tutorials.
I had to do this myself and what you can do is integrate your design into an existing design. You could just create your own theme, which takes some time but it is the correct way to do it.
http://yoast.com/wordpress-theme-anatomy/
I knew 0 php and I was able to create my own theme in a few hours. Best of luck.
I'm not sure what you mean "add the files there", I assume you means that use a WordPress-based website to display your site, then you can simple create a page by WordPress and then link this page to your site.
But if you means to create a wordpress theme which based on your existing site, then you can search a tutorial and follow it to create a wordpress theme by yourself. Making a wordpress theme will needs some PHP work, but not complicate, wordpress has very detailed documations and API.
I would suggest using the Umbraco CMS for it. The advantage is that you start with an empty site, add your css, js, and create your own content types, paste in your HTML for the templates, and you're ready to go. It is a perfect CMS for few page sites to larger sites and also has a great community around it, including lots of documentation and screencasts. Templating is done with the Razor syntax, very easy to learn and lots of documentation. You'll need to have a Microsoft-based server to host it and this may be a barrier depending on your hosting scenario.