Adding wordpress to basic website

You are right about Cross-Browser Testing not being required if no HTML or CSS is changed.

I also know what you mean about hosting issues. I am a retired programmer, having started in 1971, and insist on having a say on where the hosting is for the sites I support. At the moment, I host all of them off a single VPS where I built the software stack from the ground up. Life is now a lot less stressful than when I was on shared hosting.

Unfortunately, my only experience with stand-alone web-based visual editors is cPanel’s. They have a Windows Explorer-like File Manager and one of the many options when you right click on an .html file takes you to an editor that displays the whole web page pretty much as you’d see it in a browser, and you just type the changes and hit Save.

That’s it.

I haven’t found an Open Source alternative, but I haven’t spent enough time looking, as it was never a priority for me.

Seems like the most efficient way is to get someone to code a wordpress theme for you out of your html/css page (and probably install and configure wordpress for you)
It will look the same as it does now and be editable from the backend.

You might have to update on the hosting as you need a database and enough memory to run wordpress.

You could file a job offer here
https://jobs.wordpress.net/
or here
https://www.wphired.com/
or here
https://www.weekendhacker.net/

I don’t see how you will be able to complete the job without knowing about Worpdress and theme development.

Good luck
Anja

I don’t see how you will be able to complete the job without knowing about Worpdress and theme development.

Hey Anja,
Thanks for the response.
I’ve already stated above that I have a DEGREE in web development.
I’m fully capable/comfortable with HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, AS3, PHP, MySQL and RoR.

I don’t think ‘theme development’ is going to be something so out of the world for me to handle. What I have come to this forum for is to find out what is the industry standard. The way that is easiest, most used. I’ve read of a few and I would like ANYONE to tell me what is a common use of practice to do this. A link to a tutorial that is agreed upon by many of the way to do this.

Should I get a blank theme like starkers and just incorporate my theme into the mix as a parent-child? I’ve read multiple ways, but none seem ideal from my perspective. I’m just looking to clear this up and I am sure many other people will have this issue in the future.

There’s no “standard” way to do what you want. As you can guess from the responses that you’ve had so far, this is not something that WordPress is made to do out of the box, and it’s really not something that most people want, or even want to confuse themselves with.

If you want to update some things on the home page and another page, I’d suggest looking into adding some of your own PHP code to drag the content that WordPress stores in the database into the pages that you want it to be on. That is going to be the eaisest way to do it overall. If you need the formatting and extra fun WordPress stuff, you can include other WP files as they are needed for their functions. It should be a reasonably easy thing to do.

Sorry H0BB5 for putting it the wrong way. I SEE that you are good in designing Websites. What I meant is that even with great knowledge of CSS, PHP MySQL… you will STILL have to spend a lot of time digging into what’s specific for WORDPRESS…
As for tutorials… there are many out there…
Tutorials

Good luck!