In adding CMS functionality to static website, is complete conversion the only way?
It is indeed possible to add parts, but I would recommend a complete switch as it would save you a lot of maintenance hassle and speed things up in the longrun
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WP as a CMS menu
You’ll need to get around a custom walker. This answer by @toscho is detailed enough to help you get around it.
Can’t access Dashboard after WordPress 3.3 Update?
Okay, seems like the user permissions got changed. Did you have a plugin that manages user roles? Anyhow, I’m assuming that you have database access. Check the role that has been assigned to the user. You may have to change this manually to an administrator by editing the database. Hope this helps. 🙂
How do I add open graph tags? [closed]
Do you have access to (installing) plugins? There are several plugins that lets you add the Open Graph tags: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=open+graph
What is the best way to manage small blocks of content on my home page?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/types/ This is easiest in my opinion. It’s like managing custom post types but with the custom field functionality. Simply first create a group ‘what we do’, then add each title as a text field ( there’s a button when creating groups that says ‘text’ just hit it 3 times and name each whatever). ‘Example … Read more
Get Drupal user into WordPress
In short, to bring over your users from Drupal to WordPress you need to fill the wordpress table users (wp_users if you´re using the standard wordpress prefix) with the information of the “users” table of your drupal site. Just make sure you don’t delete the admin users of your wordpress site or you won’t be … Read more
Problem with articles feed: XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
You have rogue whitespace somewhere – maybe in functions.php, maybe in wp-config.php, maybe elsewhere. This is a common problem. You need to locate and remove the whitespace.
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare comment_theme()
Your comments.php is included multiple times for some reason. Look for comments_template() – maybe it is called too early. Each time that happens, PHP tries to create the function comment_theme() again. This cannot work, function names must be unique. Move the function declaration to the functions.php. So everything including … <?php function comment_theme($comment, $args, $depth) … Read more
wp_nav_menu with WP as pure CMS
I know I can change WP to use nice permalinks to get www.example.com/wordpress/about but I’d like to customise it further so that the link would read www.example.com/about e.g. skip the wordpress install location. Rather than “skipping the location”, point your domain to the location. Or install WP to your root, respectively. You could obviously do … Read more
How do you create a re-useable HTML fragment in wordpress
If this text was static, then of course you could use custom footer template. So create file footer-my-custom.php and then include it with get_footer(‘footer’, ‘my-custom’); If you want to edit this text in wp-admin (or have many editable texts in there) you can use one of these solutions: 1. Custom Fields (good if you use … Read more