Hi,

Is there a way to integrate a Word Press blogging engine (or the like) as a
plugin in an existing Dreamweaver site? In a AP div, or maybe in a frame?
Supposedly Google likes to look at blogging sites (that are changing all the
time). And some people suggest to replace your web site with a blogging site
for that reason.
One could make a site as a Word Press template, but I like to do my own
design.
ggaarde

Why don't you just create your own WordPress theme? Not the easiest thing to do
but certainly not impossible if you have a little time to commit. There's not a
way in which you can design the theme directly in Dreamweaver in a WYSIWYG
fashion, but you can use Dreamweaver and other tools to assist in developing
your custom theme/style sheet.

There's a ton of tutorials on the subject if you search for "wordpress theme
development tutorial".

http://jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/

Thank you JoeyD1978 !

I will check out the tutorials

ggaarde

I don't see why it would have to be a plug-in per se. I recently added a
WordPress blog to an existing site of mine:
http://www.machadofarms.com/. (Click Blog in the menu.)

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"ggaarde" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to integrate a Word Press blogging engine (or the like) as
> a
> plugin in an existing Dreamweaver site? In a AP div, or maybe in a frame?
> Supposedly Google likes to look at blogging sites (that are changing all
> the
> time). And some people suggest to replace your web site with a blogging
> site
> for that reason.
> One could make a site as a Word Press template, but I like to do my own
> design.
> ggaarde
>

> Why don't you just create your own WordPress theme?

I found a tut on creating a WP theme and it was 11 pages. I'll work thru it
someday but for the blog I added to one of my sites (see my reply to OP) I
just took one of the free templates that had similarly placed elements and
re-worked it to fit the site. Not too bad.

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"JoeyD1978" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Why don't you just create your own WordPress theme? Not the easiest thing
> to do
> but certainly not impossible if you have a little time to commit. There's
> not a
> way in which you can design the theme directly in Dreamweaver in a WYSIWYG
> fashion, but you can use Dreamweaver and other tools to assist in
> developing
> your custom theme/style sheet.
>
> There's a ton of tutorials on the subject if you search for "wordpress
> theme
> development tutorial".
>
> http://jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/
>

Hi Walt

I see what you mean. It looks very similar.

ggaarde

And it's still a work in process. I have to add the menu that appears on the
site pages, otherwise... I think it looks like part of the site. I hate
something like a blog on a blog site because it seems sloppy to me to chase
the visitor around the internet.

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> Hi Walt
>
> I see what you mean. It looks very similar.
>
> ggaarde

I found this extension the other day - I've not tried it, so can't comment
one way or another, but seemed promising.
http://www.themedreamer.com/

For the price, I, myself would try it before plunging into all those
tutorials again :-) Well maybe not, but I skinned a WP theme a while back
and it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. I'm told it gets
easier the more of them you do though :-D

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"ggaarde" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to integrate a Word Press blogging engine (or the like) as
> a
> plugin in an existing Dreamweaver site? In a AP div, or maybe in a frame?
> Supposedly Google likes to look at blogging sites (that are changing all
> the
> time). And some people suggest to replace your web site with a blogging
> site
> for that reason.
> One could make a site as a Word Press template, but I like to do my own
> design.
> ggaarde
>

By modifying a Wordpress template that's roughly set up like your page you
can integrate it into a site. www.ithistory.org was a site I designed and
they later wanted a blog so I changed the template to fit the site. This is,
of course, easier if your original site is set up using includes for header,
main content, and footer. Check it out at www.ithistory.org/blog.

Mad Dog


ggaarde wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to integrate a Word Press blogging engine (or the
> like) as a plugin in an existing Dreamweaver site? In a AP div, or
> maybe in a frame? Supposedly Google likes to look at blogging sites
> (that are changing all the time). And some people suggest to replace
> your web site with a blogging site for that reason.
> One could make a site as a Word Press template, but I like to do my
> own design.
> ggaarde

Hi Mad Dog

I like your site. The blog seems to be a totally natural part of it.
I see each page has it own url. I am not very familiar with php.
But I am seeing that only part of the page is reloading when you change pages.
Is it built in frames? or does php let you load only part of the page when you
go to a new page? I don't know of any way you can do that in html maybe other
than using ajax. But each page will then not have a unique url.

Can you fill me in?

ggaarde

Hi Ace
Thank you for the tip about ThemeDreamer.
I have downloaded the trial. It wants you to have the index.php file to work
with in Dreamweaver and the CSS. How do you get access to the index.php or any
other files for that matter from WordPress?

ggaarde

I just came across this really nice tutorial on doing custom themes with
WordPress:


http://themetation.com/2008/07/14/ho...rom-scratch-pa
rt-1/

Walt's blog isn't using frames, that's just a standard wordpress install. I
doubt you'd ever catch Walt using frames ;-)

The index.php file in Wordpress isn't where you'd go to style anything. The
"header" file is where a lot of elements can be moved around (the index page
then calls the header), however the bulk, even 100%, of the styling happens in
the style sheet.

ggaarde wrote:
> Hi Mad Dog
>
> I like your site. The blog seems to be a totally natural part of it.
> I see each page has it own url. I am not very familiar with php.
> But I am seeing that only part of the page is reloading when you
> change pages. Is it built in frames? or does php let you load only
> part of the page when you go to a new page? I don't know of any way
> you can do that in html maybe other than using ajax. But each page
> will then not have a unique url.
>
> Can you fill me in?
>
> ggaarde

The change in URL I think you're referring to is something WordPress handles
for you. It's calling various pages or blog posts or whatever using PHP.
That's the glory of it, you don't need to worry about that. As for the "no
reloading," there are no frames or Ajax or anything that fancy. It's no
different than HTML in that if you have the same elements (such as a header
graphic) it doesn't "reload" each time because it's already in the browser
cache.

MD

Whoops sorry, misread that - but mad dog isn't using frames either ;-)

JoeyD1978 wrote:
> Whoops sorry, misread that - but mad dog isn't using frames either ;-)

And I'm proud to say I never have. Okay, maybe for photos or posters on a
wall, but.....

I tried to frame my brother-in-law once but then DNA came into use and the
whole plot kind of fizzled.

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"Mad Dog" <md@maddogproductions-remove.com> wrote in message
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> JoeyD1978 wrote:
>> Whoops sorry, misread that - but mad dog isn't using frames either ;-)
>
> And I'm proud to say I never have. Okay, maybe for photos or posters on a
> wall, but.....
>

JoeyD1978, Mad dog and others

What is it that is so bad about using frames?
The nice thing about frames as I see it, you can have just one menu in one
frame and changing content in another with its own url.
I am not familiar with php, but I think php can do it as well but not html
unless you use ajax and then you have no unique url for your pages.

What am I missing?

ggaarde