georgeloch

I think I see where I was dis oriented in my approach. I was attempting to make the general template fit the pages of the site and apply a different template to the blog. What I should do is the reverse. Apply the custom templates to the pages and let the standard blog elements stand on the general template so they will apply to the blog. Sound reasonable?

Would it just be better to have two WP installs? That way I could use two separate themes.

Ok. Do you see my intention? What would you recomend? I am trying to build a site that functions like a normal site but also has a blog component. The key is to use WP to maintain all of it.

Here is the temp address:

motoxpress.com/wordpress/

Ok. I’ll try that.

Thanks. I actually have a template already called ‘blog’ which I assume will give me the same effect. Is ‘Archives.php’ some kind of default? The blog page has this template assigned and it has all of the blog elements associated with it. All of the other pages(including the main page) have the blog elements stripped out. This is because the blog is secondary to the site.

-gl

Yeah basically. The site is a mostly just pages with no blog elements but there is a single blog page that I wanted all of the blog interaction to go through. Does that makes sense?

-gl

Actually, I am trying to do something similar in that I want to use WP as a CMS and also have a blog section of the site. I am trying to create a blog page in which all of the blog-related content flows through that template and the rest of the site is driven by other page templates.

My first challenge is simply the fact that WP is oriented to just use the base URL as it’s target for anything blog so I have to change that to the blog page.

Does this sound like the same general direction you are trying to go in?

-gl

I am also looking for a video gallery for WordPress. I am surprised one doesn’t exist.

-gl

Ah. Good point. Thanks for the tip.

-gl

Thank you. I just stumbled into that via the ‘search’ button…imagine that ??

-gl

I do mean Pages in the wordpress context.

The style change would be specific to each Page and it’s children. If I have a site with Page A, B, and C, each would have it’s own header background and sidebar color.

Does that make sense?

-gl