charles_i

Yes, here’s the link to WP.

https://southeglinton.com/wpress/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fsoutheglinton.com%2Fwpress%2Fwp-admin%2F

The existing site (not WordPress) that I want to convert to WordPress is here: https://southeglinton.com/

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I was thinking that might be the easiest way. Unless there’s another suggestion.

Thanks for your help. Yes I set the page in Admin / Settings / reading. Thanks for clearing up that the loop runs once on a Page.

OK a page is an entry in the database – I’ve discovered that, but when you say “you can’t add a page to index.php” how else do you create a home page for a website when the home page is always index.php? I’ve tried creating a new page and publishing it but it doesn’t work. If I view my theme Appearance it’s there but with no content because I’m back to wondering what php I need in index.php to generate the content created in Add New Page. I removed all of the templated php code because I don’t want all the blog features. Maybe I should just put the loop back in.

I think there’s something fundamental I’m not getting at all here. I noticed today there are quite a few books out on WordPress. Maybe you could recommend one that specifically deals with creating a website – not a blog.

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Charles

Thanks for the answer – I’m not describing how to make it work – I’m asking HOW to make it work. I’ve read the pages you’ve posted and they are all bout coding for a blog. I am working on a community website so there will be a Home Page, About Us, Contact, Minutes of Meetings – AND a blog. But the blog is only ONE page of the site – the rest are static pages.

On the Pages Codex page it says WP can be used as an excellent CMS tool for static pages. I have read all of the posted tutorials and none of them mention HOW to do this – they all talk about things like the Loop which are for setting up a blog.

All I want to know is if I create a page in the control panel (or whatever it’s called) how do I make that page appear live? I have to put SOME PHP code on a page – like index.php, correct? I know how to put the header, sidebar and footer code in so it will show up – what do I put in the index part if it is NOT a blog an does not need loops, comments or any of that stuff?

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Charles

It’s not for a single page – and thanks, but I don’t want a commercial CMS service. It’s for a community website (ie no money available) – so there are several static pages and maybe ONE blog. Isn’t that the way a website usually works? Home, About Us, Minutes of Meetings, etc. But WP seems to be all about blogging – yet it says you can use it as an excellent CMS tool – right on the Pages Codex page. But exactly HOW that is done is a mystery.

Charles

Sorry, I’m new to this and find it extremely confusing. As far as I can tell a blog has all the blog elements – whereas a page can be used as a stand alone CMS tool – that’s what I want. So I create a page in what I am calling the cpanel (which is whatever you call the admin tool at wordpress/wp-login.php – it doesn’t seem to have a name).

I go to Pages – New – and make one – add a title and some content. It appears in the database as a row in wp_posts. Now, how do I put that content into a php page so that I can put it live? Can’t seem to find this out.

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Yes I mean anchors – but I want to use WordPress as a CMS tool – which they say can be done in “Pages” – for non-technical people. I know how to write anchor tags in HTML but I wondered if there is something built-in, or that I can add, that would generate the anchor in the formatting window.

And back to my original question, if I create a new page in the cpanel what code do I use to find it in my index file?

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Charles

OK so for the home page of my website I have two links at the top of a page which jump down to two articles on the same static page. I’ve set my home page to static index page. I have created a page called home (or should it be called index?) in the control panel and put the article in it. Now, how do I know what codex to put in my index.php file to access the article I just added in the cpanel?

And… how do I add jump links at the top of the page in the control panel? The only thing I have read about links are on the sidebar – and they link to another page.

Problem is most of the examples are way more complicated than this. It’s not a blog, I don’t need to loop through posts and I don’t need comments and all the other bells and whistles (yet). I’ll add a blog later. I just want to start with a simple page.

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Charles

I’m still trying to get to the bottom of how to create a “theme”. I see that in order to connect to the CMS you need to link to it using something like <?php the_content(); ?> but where are these functions?

Is it possible to use WordPress as a website CMS tool? That’s what I want. It appears to be a “blog” – yet the WordPress website indicates that it is powered by WordPress and the website is not a blog.

In order to make each section (ie tab like home, showcase, etc.) of a website available to update via the CMS tool do you need to create a theme for each one?

Is there a section of instructions on how to do this? I can only find references to the types of pages needed (header.php, index.php style.css, footer.php) – not how to actually edit and use them.

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Charles

Thanks! I’ll check them out.