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Plugins that provide additional functionality for your visitors are likely to require changes to the template, but generally, the plugin authors are good about providing examples and help with modifying your theme.

Many other plugins add functionality for the administrator.

Ideally you’ll be looking to add some feature to your web site – then looking through https://wp-plugins.org will show you a number of possibilities.

Blog is showing up as expected on be-democracy.org/index.php

This is a common request and there is some information on the Codex (which I can’t put my finger on at the moment. – try searching for drop-down menu)

At first glance, your theme doesn’t appear to have support for drop-down menus. But here is a plugin you may want to look at incorporating into your theme
https://www.weeatbricks.com/2008/01/07/new-wordpress-plugin-for-creating-a-drop-down-navigation-menu-using-jquery/

You have some decisions to make about how you want to combine these two applications – i.e. which is going to be the front page of your web site.

Based on your description – it sounds as if Phpfox has an .htaccess file that is controlling how it works and that is keeping you from getting to WordPress without designating the index.php

You can leave the blog in the WP folder – and hopefully create a link within Phpfox navigation that will take a site visitor to your blog.

Sounds as if you have used a different user to login to WordPress – try going to Admin – logout, and re-login as the admin.

What if you assigned all your reviews to a single category? Then you’d make a copy of your archives.php page in your theme and save it as reviews.php (change the name at the top of the file also)

On the index.php page – modify the loop to exclude reviews (if desired) and modify the new reviews.php include only the reviews category
see: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts

Then add a “page” to your site – using the Reviews template.

Seems to be working now.

I use SVN also for my blogs. But that shouldn’t keep you from using FTP to upload your themes and plugins to the wp_content folder. That would imply some other issue rather than using SVN. Perhaps you can add more detail about any errors.

If you want to use SVN to install your plugins – you can install them from https://svn.wp-plugins.org/ (assuming they are hosted there) using the same technique you are already using for WordPress itself.

You’ll need a login and password but the admin is here
https://projectfatloss.com/wp-admin/

Lorelle has a great summary of Related Post plugins here
https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/02/21/blog-navigation-wordpress-plugins-related-recent-most-popular-posts-and-more/

The good news and bad news about the large WordPress ecosystem is there are generally more than one solution to a single problem. But the health of any one plugin is directly related to the author’s (and others) interest in keeping it up-to-date with the latest from WordPress and PHP.

When you open the header.php file – you’ll probably see a part that talks about get_pages and Home.

To get the “new” Home tab – you’ll want to sneak in an
<li> with a link to your main Home page immediately in front of the get_pages – and then change the word Home that was already to there to TechBoard.

Alternately you may want to go back to the theme author and see if they can customize the template for your specific needs. Shouldn’t be a great deal of work.

In place (or in addition to) where the header.php file has <?php blogino(‘name’) ?> – put an HTML IMG tag that points to your logo.

You should be good to go unless things get pushed around weirdly in your theme.

Have you tried https://mysites.dev/wordpress/index.php ?

Should work based on the information provided above – I think. I can think of a couple of reasons why the odd behavior but those would be Mamp issues.

I did the same thing (not in rails but php) for a client – I did it the other way around. I used the WordPress login and registration and then just checked that my user had a WordPress cookie installed – otherwise they got booted back to the login screen.

I could then pull any information I needed from the WP database tables in my client’s application.

Here are three web sites that provide information on customizing wp_register.php

https://onemansblog.com/2007/01/17/customizing-the-wordpress-user-login-screen/

https://goudendouche.com/2006/12/15/how-to-build-a-custom-register-page-in-wordpress/

https://www.jameskelly.org/wordpress-plugins/custom-login-and-registration-forms-plugin/