Generic sites

  • Hey people,

    i updated my blog yesterday and i want to improve the content on my site. The main aspect of my site are reviews, tests etc.. Stuff, people actually write.
    For the future, i collected a huge amount of data (for example all pc-games listed in steam).

    So, if i wouldn’t use wordpress, i could do something like “mysite/pc/games/”
    which would output a list of all pc games, without anyone having it maintaining. The point ist, that i want to have “generic” content. Is this doable in wordpress?

    Just a summarty:
    I have stored all information in my database (same as wp) and need to to display specific sites in wordpress, without having such a site in the backend, since it isn’t filled with information via authors.

    Thanks in advance,
    Daniel

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  • It is certainly possible, common even for people to use WordPress as a website generator. A single author uses the facilities of WordPress (pages/posts/menus/images/galleries +plugins +others) to create their website. It may be a brochure or shop or autobiography or club or anything else.
    What matters to you is the question: “Does WordPress give me enough of the facilities I need ?”

    Thread Starter dassaffe

    (@dassaffe)

    Well, okay.
    Of course it is possible, since it is based on PHP.
    From that point, of course i can somehow quick and dirty try to manipulate the url-manager, extend the core with hacks etc.

    As you already mentioned: A single author uses facilities, but i don’t want anyone to do something in that case. Everything shoudl be “automagic”.

    But you are right… so, does WP give me enough of the facilities?

    Thread Starter dassaffe

    (@dassaffe)

    Are there maybe plugins for that case?
    Sigh, thats so weird. I really like WP, hope there is a way to add generic sites :]

    Thread Starter dassaffe

    (@dassaffe)

    maybe now someone? :/

    Thread Starter dassaffe

    (@dassaffe)

    okay, here is my attempt:

    if I edit the “single.php”, i could check:

    If (url has params)
    (if param = pc) ...
        show content of that param

    but since this site doesn’t exist as a page in the DB, WP throws an 404. But there MUST be a way to tell WP, that it should handle such requests / links and make us of the existing params in the url.

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