How to incorporate WordPress into an existing site

  • nobleone

    (@nobleone)


    14 years ago

    I have been looking for a nice solution to our site’s news page and was wondering if WordPress could fit. We want a blog style news section but it must fit in the site’s current style. We dont want the user to feel like they have left our site just to read our current news. Is there a way to incorporate WordPress into our HTML site while keeping our original navigation & design intact? If not, any suggestions? I’d really like to use WordPress as I have been floored with the ease of use so far and it just feels really nice to use, so hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction.

    All feedback is greatly appreciated, Thanks!

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  • Well, you can theme wordpress to look however you would like. That’s probably the best bet really. Design a theme to look like your site, and run it from a subdomain/directory. Or even better, have it take over your existing site. That’s what I eventually did. I had a static site, a WP site, an online shop, a forum, etc. One by one, I just integrated everything into one install. so much easier. If you are handy you should be able to get the theme going fairly easily.

    You could also query WP to bring posts into your existing site (but the site has to be php, not html for this to work. Luckily, usually just changing the file names from .html to .php works with no adverse effects)
    https://www.corvidworks.com/articles/wordpress-content-on-other-pages

    However, I highly recommend considering switching to WP entirely

    Thread Starter nobleone

    (@nobleone)

    Thanks for the tips voodoo. I followed the document, but it hasn’t been what I’m looking for. It works, just looks really poor and doesn’t even display my full posts. So I think that method is a dead end (but very good practice in coding php for the first time).
    Now that I have my hands a little dirtier though, I’m wondering if there is a way to take my top navigation bar (which is written in HTML and now converted to php) and throw it above the WordPress index. Is that possible? If so, I’m totally in business! In the meantime, I’ll continue reading more docs

    Thanks again for the continued help!

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