How to integrate WordPress with existing website.

  • Hello,

    A little background. I am a web designer with over 10 years of experience however I have never used a CMS. I am very famliar with code; HTML5, CSS3, however I am baffled over WordPress.

    I have read this, this and followed a few tutorials and I am none the wiser. It would seem every tutorial is centered around creating and editing a blog, I don’t need a blog, I just need a few editable sections here and there.

    For example. I have setup this basic website in Dreamweaver: https://wearemotion.com/3/
    How do I; change the word Dog to Cat, change the picture of a dog to a cat.

    I am looking for the simplest solution in order to give my (inexperienced) clients the ability to edit (some of) their website content in the future.

    Thank you in advance,

    Dan

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  • I’m not aware of a way to just uses pieces of WordPress like you are wanting to do. I HAVE seen people use WordPress as a part of their site. Something like Website.com/blog so basically it is a whole WordPress install in a subdirectory, in this case ‘blog’. It looks like you are just wanting to use it’s editing abilities on your static webpage which can’t be done that I know of.

    Thread Starter graphicism

    (@graphicism)

    Thank you for your reply.

    I have read that sites such as Spotify and Herman Miller use WordPress but as you can see they don’t look anything like a blog.

    How can that be, or perhaps I should ask; what’s the easiest path to take to achieve this?

    WordPress isn’t just for blogging. Out of all of the sites that I’ve done with WordPress, so far 1 is used as a blog. That’s all. Every other one is a standard “static” site.

    As a starting point, you’d be workign with Pages instead of Posts. That’s probably the biggest difference. You can also set the home page to a static Page in the admin area under ‘Settings -> Reading’. From there you can set up menus if you don’t want the ones that are automatically generated.

    After that, it’s up to you to take it where you want to. The biggest learning curve for you will most likely be the templating system and how the file hierarchy works. There’s a lot of information around on it, but it can seem a bit overwhelming at first.

    As a starting point I’d suggest finding a theme that you like, installing that, and just playing around with the iste for a while. When you start to get to learn what you’re doing you can do more and more until you can get to where you want to be.

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