Is it possible to use Drupal to feed a few dynamic portions of a mostly static website? We have a plain old website and are looking to create a sibling site just for web-app stuff (private CMS, databasing, some forms for specific things, etc.). Some of the content we create on the sibling site (which would be Drupal), we'd like to render in areas on the primary site (non-Drupal). An example might be a news feed generator that displays on the primary site, but is actually fed from content created in the secondary site's interface. Another potential workflow might be a Drupal installation that's located in a subdirectory of a mostly static website. A general login link could redirect users to the drupal area, but could we get any of the content they create outside of that, modularly, so we can keep our nice rigid site design? I guess I'm looking to harness Drupal as more of a framework than a CMS.
Is any of this possible? Is this even a logical concept, or am I stupid for asking?
Thanks for any suggestions.
It is possible you could implement a custom callbacks which are accessed via Jquery on your old site.
However....
Why would you do this, Drupal is a CMS for websites, if you have a static website, no matter how big it won't be too dificult to put it into drupal and look the same, even have the same URLs. You then get Drupal goodness wherever and whenever you want very easily.
You can always access your Drupal database in your external site to display whatever Drupal content you want.
You could build RSS feeds with Views and put a simple feed parser into your static site. But again, if you want more than simple RSS syndication, you are better off planning a migration path than partial Drupal integration.
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I have a little curiosity. I often use extensions like Wappalyzer to try to understand certain sites about which CMS are based and, in this regard, I would have a question: is there a way to prevent extensions similar to the one mentioned above from identifying the CMS used?
You can try, but I don't think that you can successfully hide CMS behind your site and that attempt is waste of time. For drupal check on this page:
https://www.drupal.org/node/766404
Most CMS can be run as headless CMS, decoupling backend and frontend. They either render a static set of html pages, or a JSON file with all the sites data, which is then rendered by some kind of Javascript app. This way no one can figure out where the data is coming from, or if there was a CMS involved at all.
I do not understand how people use HTML5Boilerplate with dynamic sites, like news sites, blogs, etc. I understand that you can get themes for WordPress, but specifically, I'm curious to know how sites like UpWorthy.com and DailyDot.com update when they are not using Wordpress or other identifiable CMS systems.
Can anyone explain?
Thank you!
Before there was Wordpress or a CMS, every website was custom made. All that was needed was a database and a backend language - which back in the day were JSP, ASP, and PHP. There were no pretty permalinks, so every URL ended in a query string with many parameters.
Those sites updated whenever their inhouse/outsourced IT team was ready to roll out an update. They were not a customized 'theme' but a 100% custom built.
They used boilerplate as a starting point of their templates and made modifications by making changes to those templates with whatever IDE company policy permits.
So the boiler plate is a starting point to create a completely custom website that ensures that as little as possible is missed by the developer.
I have a Wordpress site that is built on Foundation-theme and using Stella for multilingual plugin. When you change language it works great, but when you click "Home" in the menu, you get redirected to default language.
What do I need to do?
Best practice is always provide code. Well,Check you code either the multilingual is maintaining a session in which it stores the current language title like English(en)
OR
check your URL may be there is a parameter ?lang=en so you need to place this parameter on each link on your whole site to keep the user in the respective language.
for Example your logo should be this:
<img src="/images/logo.jpg"/>
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We are planning to create an asp.net website (probably mvc), that needs a cms for news items.
Our content managers and others who require to publish news have asked if they can use wordpress for content management.
Our users have different roles, and news items should be visible to certain roles, or even specific users if possible.
The reason they want wordpress is the manager's user friendliness, so if some other alternative with the same kind of user experience would be ok.
Could anyone please point me in some direction?
NOTE: I'm still doing research at the moment, so I've got nothing holding me back at this point.
There is an API plugin that has been developed to spit out information in JSON, but I have not actually implemented a site with it:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/json-api/
Perhaps you could have the authors work on a wordpress install and create your app to draw content via that plugin?
I too was facing the same issue, little different. We want to have WP as CMS so that our site can take the benefit of SEO which is very easy with WP. SO we installed WP under a folder in the Main ASP.net based website. Initially there were issues, I was unable to run it. Finally managed to run it. Solution is posted here - http://www.wwwlabz.com/how-to-run-a-php-based-website-from-a-subfolder-in-asp-net-website. Hope it will help someone. Actual site where we implemented this is http://www.periproperties.com/content/.
Now I want to have specific section of WP to be accessible on my site. SO I am exploring different options and will post, if found something
Thanks.
DotNetNuke is the most popular ASP.NET based CMS (source). I am implementing my first project in it and so far I am very happy with it.
Note the free edition will not work for you since you need customizable security roles and free has a limited set of predetermined roles. You'll need the pro edition.
I don't know how similar it is to WordPress. Overall, WordPress is much more popular but of course there are platform issues with WordPress since it is Apache based and you want to create an ASP.NET website.
I have managed to setup a blog on localhost quickly using wordpress. But what is ivolved in setting up a commercial website that is not a blog?
Also, should learning to use wordpress be more diffcult than learning Asp.Net or php? I can use these languages to create a website more quickly than using wordpress it seems. I'm guessing it should be possible to create a basic php website and then somehow hook it up to the admin functionality of wordpress to publish content and update it?
Any comments and suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks,
A few thoughts on this.
First, Wordpress is based on PHP. So if you know your way around in PHP you are able to change anything within wordpress, you can build customized plugins, templates, etc.
However, using Wordpress has nothing to do with the programming languages you know. The fact that you are struggling with it is probably more because you don't understand yet what the features of Wordpress are or what you can use them for.
You can easily use Wordpress to create a simple non-blog website by setting up pages instead of posts. So you would be using Wordpress not as a blog engine but more as what's usually called a content management system CMS (not that using it as a blog engine wouldn't make Wordpress a CMS, but I'm talking about the general usage of those wordings).
A simple Google search might help you find more information about how to accomplish it in your specific case.
Hope this helps!
You need experience with PHP, HTML and CSS to configure WordPress to run like a non-blog website. Is it easier? Maybe, you get what you want but you won't understand what is going on.
If you are creating a static web page, say like a company's web site with little to none dynamic content, use pages (not posts) and create a static front page.
If you wish to use WordPress like a generic CMS, you can either use the Pods plugin or the newly introduced custom post types and taxonomies (new in Wordpress 3.0). You still need knowledge of PHP/MySQL to configure the Wordpress Loop (which is used to display blog posts and other dynamic content) and Wordpress Theme tags (to display name of the current logged in user).
Some plugins help with customizing the site for a non-blog look. Theme My Login and Theme my Profile blends the log-in page and profile page with your theme. However, if you need to customize the appearance, or add new logic, you pretty much need programming.
In short, you would need knowledge of PHP and MySQL; CSS too, if possible. Get your hand dirty building some sites, then what Wordpress offer and does for you with its API will be more relevant.