I have website which require:
landing page
blog
I'm considering 2 alternative, and I would love to get feedback:
Landing page + blog -> in wordpress
Landing page in amazon s3 (only static files) and the blog in wordpress
Would would you recommend?
Thanks,
Lior
That second options sounds really really weird. It is very easy to make a frontpage in wordpress, so that would definitely be my first choice.
Let me know if you have a hard time imagining how to make a frontpage in wordpress.
I'm also curious on why you are considering the other option?
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I tried to search everywhere for an answer to my question but I still doesn't understand how Wordpress fully work.
I would like to use Wordpress as my news system CMS only. This means, I do not wish to set up my page layout via the Wordpress theme interface. If you guys know another news CMS called CuteNews, I want my Wordpress to operate pretty much like CuteNews.
How can I put Wordpress post entries into my website that uses my own layout (and not using the theme interface in Wordpress).
Thanks!
For people looking at this from google. Check out this blog post
http://sidigital.co/blog/disconnect-your-frontend-from-wordpress
I have used this as a starting point for my detached wordpress site and it's working perfect.
You can actually! Without converting it to a theme. It works for me as I don't do wordpress themes but I use WP to power the back-end of my websites. I utilize WP's CMS feature.
here's a checklist of what you can possibly do to your website.
Your website design (html/css)
Install Wordpress on your server, or locally.
Download Blank WP Template, set this as your default template for your wordpress site.
Edit the Theme's CSS/Header/Footer according to your website design while keeping essential WP codes provided in the template.
Set your News Page as the Blog Entry in WP Dashboard.
If you want some news preview, such as titles to appear somewhere on your site like homepage, you can either call it thru PHP code available on the net or install a plugin in WP.
Items listed above maybe broad, but that's a starting point, as you can research on the net for detailed information on how to go about your website with wordpress CMS.
Best of Luck!
I have a potential client who wants to take an existing Joomla site and translate it into Wordpress. Is any sort of automagical conversion possible, or will I have to reconstruct the site in word press?
Thanks
The Wordpress Codex gives some plugins that could help you importing from Joomla to Wordpress: http://codex.wordpress.org/Importing_Content#Joomla
Best practive however, depends on what you want to import: Users, articles, whole design, etc...
Is there any way to integrate phpBB with Wordpress. I already have a wordpress blog and I need to integrate phpBB to it. I want to synchronize the user table of both phpBB and wordpress. User can access both sites by logging into anyone of the sites. Can anyone help me on this...
You can integrate/synchronize the user tables. There's even a plugin for that, see WP phpBB Bridge.
As an aside: I agree that as a standalone forum, phpBB is by far the best opensource/free solution. For WP, there's also the excellent simple:press forum. Using that instead of phpBB is definitely more future-proof, less maintenance requiring once setup and easier to optically integrate into the site. It might look pretty ugly at first, but its css is very flexible and with a bit of tinkering, you can integrate it very well.
EDIT
It having just received an upvote, I revisited this answer. And it being 2 years old, I want to add that given recent decisions of the dev team, I feel less inclined to recommend simple:press over going the extra mile and integrating phpBB...
I think BBPress Forum is best idea to integrate with wordpress. I recently integrate the BBPress Forum with one my wordpress blog. You can get guide for adding BBPress Forum from here http://www.bloggingalerts.com/2011/11/how-to-integrate-forum-with-wordpress.html
WP-United provides modules for both single sign-on and template integration. It does both of these automatically.
Ok, follow these steps exactly, this took me days to work out.
Install wordpress and phpbb as normal.
Make sure you are logged out of wordpress (otherwise you will get a gap at the top of your phpbb header, where the wordpress admin bar would go).
Now go to your wordpress blog page, (when you are logged out of wordpress admin) and right click, go to view source.
Copy the source from the top of the page until you see a div like page content etc (will vary on your theme), remember we just want the header.
Now paste that right at the top of your your overall_header.php in your phpbb template.
Now go to your phpbb admin, and go to styles, then templates, click refresh on your current template, so that the overall_header.php will be re-cached with the changes we have made.
You can do the footer in the same way, copy the footer html from the wordpress page that you want to use, and add it to overall_footer.php.
You can ever get the same styles by linking your css file from your blog to phpbb.
You should now be able to link to your phpbb and it will have a wordpress header.
i have used wp-phpbb-bridge with these steps:
1) after installation of the plugin, activate it;
2) set the correct paths of phpbb directory in the plugin's settings.
3) go to Widgets and put the Phpbb Bridge Users (or which one) you need into the sidebar.
then the users(login or other data) will be automatically synchronized.
this method worked for me.
I built a site for a client not too long ago and built it fairly standard. Now she has a Wordpress blog and would like an area on the main site to have links to the most recent blog posts. Is there an easy way for me to pull a list of the most recent posts into this content area without having to chop the page up into a Wordpress template?
You want to place the WP feed on the static site? Maybe Developer's Guide - Google AJAX Feed API - Google Code
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedlist
I have a WordPress blog integrated into my hand-coded site. I use SimplePie to display my latest posts on my website's home page. I wrote a blog post about how to do this - Displaying WordPress posts on a separate web page. Hopefully that will work for you as well. Let me know if you need more information or help.
I have around 40 pages on my website. I also have a Wordpress blog. I would like to shift my website to this blog. When I transfer the website to the blog, I want to transfer its pages to the blog as pages and not blog posts. Would that be possible.
The existing pages on the website have the URLs like;
www.xyz.com/article1.htm
www.xyz.com/article2.htm
www.xyz.com/article3.htm
When I create a blog, I want these links to be redirected to new links on the blog, like:
www.xyz.com/article1.htm should redirect to www.newblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/article1.htm
www.xyz.com/article2.htm should redirect to www.newblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/article2.htm
www.xyz.com/article3.htm should redirect to www.newblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/article3.htm and so on.
How can I do this?
Also could existing RSS feeds to the current blog, be updated/migrated or redirected after this transfer?
Thanks
I would highly recommend the redirection plugin for this.
It's quick and easy to use and manages everything inside the WordPress admin.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/
This is one we're using and it seems to do a pretty good job :)
http://wordpress.org/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/
Cheers!