Adding WordPress to existing site

  • Hello

    Total newbie here….
    I have messed around a little with WordPress a long time ago but never really understood very well what I was doing so, I’m essentially starting again from scratch.

    I’m coding my very first website for somebody. The client needs to be able to easily post news/updates in one section of the homepage. The rest of the site will be unchanging.

    So far I’m not planning on building the entire site with wordpress. I just want to use wordpress for the one section the client needs to update.

    Is that possible? If so, how?

    Thanks!

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  • WordPress seems a bit overkill to just post in one section of the homepage. If you have a subfolder for lets say a blog, I could see it being useful.

    as @tim S stated, it may be a bit overkill to install an entire WP setup to update one section of a website.

    I would consider building the website using WP rather that trying to shoehorn WP in like that. WP can handle anything you throw at it if configured properly. And that gives options down the road for expansion.

    But what you describe is fairl simple if you do want to go that route. You simply install WP in a subfolder… domain.com/blog or whatever, and then in the main site include WP, and run a query to grab the most recent post(s)

    https://www.corvidworks.com/articles/wordpress-content-on-other-pages
    explains it well.

    I used to do that for my company website, until I started feeling limited, and finally converted the whole site over to using WP, rather than inporting

    Thread Starter murphaloid

    (@murphaloid)

    I see. Well in that case can I build my whole site with WordPress without the whole site being a blog?

    The client is clear that they want a static site apart from the one updates section.

    Sorry for my ignorance..Im just not sure how to go about this.

    Thanks

    Wp uses a combination of pages and posts. You can use all pages for static, and posts for dynamic

    You can set a static front page and put posts elsewhere.

    You can also make your own templates which have static content, and only one section updated by posts.

    It’s all in how you use it. You could have the front page call posts from various categories for instance. And then when the client updates the site, he assigns a post to that category, and only that section updates.

    It can take a bit to get it all figured out, but by picking the right theme, or designing one to fit your needs (with a good amount of planning) WP usually ends up being a great solution.

    You pretty much just have to decide if you can figure out how to get where you are going using WP

    Thread Starter murphaloid

    (@murphaloid)

    ok guys…really useful advice there, and thanks for the tutorial too!

    Cheers
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    Thread Starter murphaloid

    (@murphaloid)

    oh just one last question…Ive already started on coding my site. If I now decide to start with wp instead, can I transfer my existing code?

    can I build my whole site with WordPress without the whole site being a blog?

    Yes. Just use Pages instead of Posts and configure WordPress to use a static front page. The main Posts page can then called News or Updates and reserved for Posts.

    If I now decide to start with wp instead, can I transfer my existing code?

    Sort of. You have to understand how WP themes work
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development

    Once you get the hang of it, you can most likely use most of your code to help develop a theme. I’m sure there are html to WP tutorials out there, or at least some decent advice

    It might be easiest to start with a theme that has a very similar look/layout to your ideas for your hand coded site and then begin tweaking it a little to suit your purposes.

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