HTML to WordPress Template – Static Home Page

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The idea is to have a hybred site building most of it using static HTML pages for SEO purposes but using WordPress for dynamic elements; Forum, Shopping Cart, Blog, etc…

I took a HTML template converted it to a wordpress template which looks correct for the index.php using:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

But it doesn’t display the content from WordPress and if you click on one of the nav links link to WordPress components the page do not have the component content plus the template is not correct.

I do not currently have the so called “loop code” built-in yet which is the problem I need to solve. I think to solve the issue I need to setup a simple loop code to simple display the content from WordPress into the template correctly.

I added some generic loop coding to the index.php which added recent post links, date, etc.. it did add the WordPress component content as well but the template still didn’t look right. So, I removed it and decided to post the issue into the forum.

I created the nav / link structure from the HTML template to the WordPress template so I don’t need WordPress generate links. I just want the content to be displayed into the content area.

I think this page could be part of the solution but still would need the loop code in the index.php file.

I hope I explained the issue clearly enough.

Any help would be appreciated