static-website

Using wget to create a static mirror of a local WordPress installation

This is possible, and there are likely many ways of doing it. It would be easier to invert the logic, and say “if a page exists, display it – otherwise feed it to wordpress and let wordpress display/handle it”. This is actually the default on most WordPress sites, as its more-or-less required for “pretty URL’s”, … Read more

There are many sites that can help you become more familiar with how WordPress works. The WPBeginner site (search for it) is one of them. There are tons of end-user-level tutorials. You don’t have to be a developer to use WordPress. You can use the default theme to get started. Or look for a theme … Read more

I need to modify the source code from my static page

So I managed to fix it by changing both SiteURL and homeURL to being the exact same. Now I’ve finally added an A-record in my DNS so the sites uses its own URL. Works like a charm 🙂 Im not sure why but I’ve seen others place “http://…” for SiteURL and “http://www…” for homeURL. However, … Read more

WordPress Posts on Static Pages

It can be solved with custom fields, block1, block2, block3. In template (single.php) make three divs, in each set an appropriate meta value (use: ?php echo get_post_meta($post_id, ‘block1’, true); ), and then you can control the text within each custom field.

In order to run a WordPress site you have to go for the self-hosted version and install WordPress on a web server. It’s not as hard as it sounds 🙂 What you need A web host (a simple shared host will do). PHP and MySQL must be available on the web host (very common). PHP … Read more

Yes of course you can recreate that site using WordPress. You gain the benefit of managing all the pages from the WordPress admin, and gain consistency across all the pages due to the templated nature of WordPress pages. You can start by finding or creating a very basic theme that mimics the look of the … Read more