showing current topic on static page

  • I want to be able to insert articles into my home page one for monthly specials and one for “tips”. This way visitors to my site will see the text I created in wordpress, within my existing website.

    Can someone give me the scoop on how to do this? I’m not too sure about integrating the wordpress text into my site.

    Thanks

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  • I think what you are asking is that you want to use wordpress for certain sections of your website like this:

    Home – Specials – Tips – About – Contact

    …and have “specials” and “tips” access a wordpress installation, while the other links “Home”, “About”, “Contact” are separate pages that you created outside of WordPress.

    Sound about right?

    Thread Starter marglarsd

    (@marglarsd)

    Thanks for responding.

    I want “Tips” to actually be a wordpress page, yes.

    The specials I want to have integrated into the home page. – to be a module of sorts that updates when the text is updated in wordpress.

    You should give more details when asking questions – not making us to guess what you want.
    You have a kind of main page on your site, right? And where is WP installed? IN the root? In a subfolder?

    Do you want to display posts from Wp blog on main page or do you want to “integrate” the whole blog into the site (meaning giving it a design that looks like your main site)… or what?

    Be as specific as you can. Also, be careful when using the word Pages when it comes to WordPress – it has a completely different meaning.

    Gotcha.
    How you go about this is really up to you, though there may be some opinion as to the *best* way to do it.

    In a typical setup, you would install wordpress to the root (or topmost) folder on your host. But if wordpress is only for “tips”, when the reader comes to your website they’ll land on tips first.

    You could create wordpress in a subfolder called “tips” and have the rest of your website as non-wordpress pages. You would then simply add a link on all your other pages to “domain.com/tips/” and it will point to the installation of WP.

    The issue you will run into is getting the appearance of WP to look like the rest of your site, if that is a concern for you.

    Or you may consider simply using WP as the main website and integrating your existing content into a wordpress page.

    Well I did the same thing a few months ago quite easily.

    I included the header.php file in the static HTML page. This brought in all the wordpress-specific functions, then I just ran a function to grab the latest entry and display the HTML (probably the_post() or something).

    Quite easy, really.

    I want a static home page, a page that comes up first every time.

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