CMS installation hack - wordpress

[Kezzer]

Hey guys, i've asked this before i think but i'm actually going to do it this time. I want to implement WordPress into my website, but the thing is, i want to only add one WP page to my whole website which is the news page. Now what i plan to do is just include() the WP main page into my switch statement which controls the navigation for my website.

I've looked through the documentation and i'm not sure how to do it as it only talks about creating a template FOR wordpress as opposed to including wordpress in a current design. I think some members here have implemented it into their own design?

Can anyone be of service?

[Norky]

I take it you are only using Wordpress for it's editing features? Could you not just create a standalone file for displaying the news, I think all tag replacing etc. is done during the database submission.

[Kezzer]

I'm just using it to display news, so i can easily edit the news on my site. I would write a script but there's no point in re-inventing the wheel when you can just hack it and use it

[ikonia]

I too would be very interested in this.

Wordpress is on my list, but don't want my whole site controlled with word press just certain pages such as news as kezzer uses for an example.

I'll work on this on Sunday

[bsodmike]

My site (bsodmike.com) has WP as the back end. I initially had the index.php hacking into WP but now I have it as a theme...

BUT! I have the floating menu as a 'hack' into the theme, so I can edit that to my hearts content. Now the new WP has a 'page' posting feature which is pretty cool

It would be hard for me to give you 'code' as my template has been rebuilt from the ground up, as it has 2 containers, a header, content and footer container all for easy management...

Best thing is for you to install wp and hack the default theme

[Kezzer]

Dagnamit, isn't there a function which i can call into my switch statement to show one of the pages?

[Norky]

Simply trying to include the index.php page would cause all sorts of problems due to file structure.

You could just create a blank template that contains solely the content then use socket stuff in php to grab the content.

[Kezzer]

I'm sure there's another way of doing it

[ikonia]

....working on it.

I've also pulled in a friend who uses wordpress quite a lot. His initial thoughts are wordpress is a whole site solution, to have it as a section of a site is not really viable.
he suggest a cheap hack of having www.yoursite.com and say news.yoursite.com and make news.yoursite.com the wp section, but I didn't like that idea too much.

Back to playing with this.

Kezzer, glad to see I'm not alone on this dream.

[Steve]

/kez strokes home grown news posting implementation

Given the effort you seem to need to go to, to hack WP to work, would you in fact be better off "reinventing the wheel" as you say?

I've never used WP myself, so I can't shed any light on it.

[Norky]

I created a custom news script using the WP JS text editor. It doesn't have the same user and archiving features but it's just as easy to use as WP in a single user environment.

[bsodmike]

Actually hacking WP it self is rather painless now, with the new 'theme' system. For me it was a little bit more work as I was moving from v1.2 to v1.5 which has two completely different ways of handling stuff (i.e. 1.2 had the hacks in index.php, 1.5 has themes)...

All you need to do is duplicate the default theme and go to work on it and you are sorted