Yesterday I had to integrate a site that I just designed into WordPress so that my client could edit content easily. Wow! what a challenge! I thought it was going to be rather easy but I was pretty much wrong about that.
For starters there is basically no information out there that helps you to accomplish this task. So Jon Waraas was the only place I could go for guidance. Turns out that WordPress has this thing called Codex. It is a place that you can go and look at all the little pieces of php code that you can have in a WordPress site, and it tells what they do. So it was now my job to figure out what I wanted the site to do and then to figure out where the crap to put all of the code so that everything worked properly.
One suggestion that I would make is to take a look at the files of the default WordPress template, and see what pieces of php are in the code and what all the template does as far as functioning. Then you need to split apart your site into the header.php, index.php, page.php, sidebar.php, and footer.php. Once you do that it is time to start putting the Codex codes into the files and see what happens. If you have a little experience with WordPress you will catch on to it quicker but if you have no experience you should download a few different templates and look through their php and learn what you can. there is also a video that kinda explains it a little on www.burnseo.com. It doesn’t however, show you how to do it all the way or the correct way really but it will get you a little more familiar with the process you will have to take.
For anyone else who has to learn how to do this with little or no experience in php (as I did) I am gratefully sorry. Just keep tweaking the code and eventually it will work. I finally got it after two days of working on it, hopefully next time I can do it in about and hour or so.
