gffects Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Ok people this if for you guys that are WP pros. Is it possible to make a whole website handcoded then add it to wordpress to add the dynamic functions or are we stuck with choosing a theme and trying to edit it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 It's possible to make hardcoded templates and then integrate that into Wordpress -- take those files and create a Wordpress theme out of them, and then recreate the site within Wordpress -- but it's not like adding a couple lines of Wordpress code to your existing static files will give you all of the power of Wordpress. When I'm developing Wordpress sites, I usually start by hardcoding a couple standard templates in HTML/CSS, and then integrating them into the base Wordpress theme. Building out an entire HTML/CSS site from scratch would be a bit of a wasted effort, since I would have to recreate the page structure and add in all my content within Wordpress. If you know what you are doing, you could potentially start a theme completely from scratch, but I usually find that it's easier to start from a super-basic base theme and strip out the parts that I don't need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gffects Posted June 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Ok so you kinda do then. its just I am building a site for a client and they want almost every feature of the blog but they don't want it to be like a blog more like a static site with comments and easy for them to update without myself, so it's more like a portfolio with a few blog functions. Not sure how straight forward that would be todo on wordpress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Sounds like you just want to use Wordpress's pages functionality -- those aren't displayed hierarchically by date, and you will get the ability to relatively easily update the site and have comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gffects Posted June 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Yeh pretty much just now quite sure how to go about it I have downloaded instantwp for testing etc would nice if we could just make the site upload it and drag and drop the functions haha i'm soo lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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