question about a WP site

drew68 · 08-31-2006, 09:17 AM

hi all...

question...i have a template that my client wants me to cut up and have it manageable through WP...

is this feasible?

i've done over a dozen other WP sites before but i picked one blog template which had all the php files in it and just edited a few php files in the theme folder and in WP chose for that template to be used.

whereas with this..it's a bit different in that the site template has to be cut up and i'd like to build it in HTML but is there a way to use that html file and have WP populate within it?

Kalina · 08-31-2006, 12:46 PM

You're going to have to code it into the template php files, Drew. It's actually a breeze.

drew68 · 08-31-2006, 12:54 PM

well lookie who showed up! my favorite online person in the entire universe!!!!

i've coded html into the php files before...so i get what you mean!

like for the sidebar.php, index.php files etc...right?

Kalina · 08-31-2006, 11:55 PM

I'm sure I'm not your favourite anything, but yes, you'll have to edit files any you want the design in, but you know that already.

It's best to use the default theme's code then just make changes in the css and anywhere else if necessary.

drew68 · 08-31-2006, 11:59 PM

well your my favorite forums person..does that count for anything?

ok...so i'm gonna cut it up and inplement html to the pertaining php files and take it from there.

phew! this should be interesting!!

Kalina · 09-01-2006, 12:23 AM

Considering it's you saying it, and I am a female, I'd say it counts for something, it's quite the feat!

Yup, good luck with it.

megamoose · 09-03-2006, 11:11 AM

I recently made a WP theme and found it was actually really easy to do, and I thought it was going to take me ages. But I know you said that you've made loads before so you probably know it's easy to do.

A good thing about it is you can use PHP code in it just as like <?php echo "hi"; ?> or whatever, which is very handy. If I understand you correctly could you not just use the PHP code in it aswell, and edit the template as if it was just another WP theme that you've made?

Mark

Kalina · 09-03-2006, 07:01 PM

Mark, the link in your sig doesn't work.

Marketing Guy · 09-08-2006, 06:59 AM

You could pick a basic template that has a similar layout to your client's design then just update the colour scheme, navigation, etc.