How to get a "static" site to work in the admin?

  • Hi:
    I want to use WP as a CMS and build websites with it that may or may not INCLUDE blogs, but are not blogs and don’t have the blog entries on the homepage. I also want to use my own designs. So sorting out issues that are related to custom theme building versus CMS-NOT Blog issues is tricky.

    I have been trying to follow the steps in the book: WordPress 2.8 Theme Design which has been great EXCEPT it is about designing a blog theme. So after a point it’s not longer helpful.

    I have created a CSS/HTML design and have successfully cut it up into templates (sidebar, header, footer, etc.), and have index.php, home.php, 404.php template pages too. These are all loaded in a working Themes file and they do assemble into pages. I can “add a page” and it appears on the list in the admin; I can edit the theme files in the admin, but I can’t place or remove content on the pages through the admin.

    I have a plugin activated called .html on PAGES which is allowing me to name my pages the way I want – I don’t know if that’s creating a problem or if I should activate after I get other things working?

    Otherwise, is there something I need to do that I haven’t that will allow me to actually edit PAGES through the admin?

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  • Thread Starter vytaulla51

    (@vytaulla51)

    Figured it out. Needed code on the page – used the following:
    <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

    <?php the_content(‘

    Continue Reading »’); ?>

    <?php endwhile; ?>

    <?php else : ?>

    <h2>Not Found</h2>

    <p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.</p>

    <?php endif; ?>

    It’s very frustrating to be trying to both do my own design and have it NOT be a blog, because most of what I’m seeing in books and articles assumes you are working with a blog. So there’s stuff about creating your own blog theme and using the loop, but very little that is explicit that is coming from my perspective – using WP as a CMS, not a blog, WITH a custom design.

    Ah well.

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