Wordpress - can you implement specific feature only?

[kash86uk]

Hi, does anyone know any other wordpress like system is out there?

And can wordpress be implemented on your own website, because it seems like that if you use wordpress you have to use some kind of wordpress template/theme only?

Does wordpress let you add only some features of wordpress, like allowing users to comment at the bottom of your own webpage? -this is what I want.

[ZUser1]

Wordpress is a very, very, VERY versatile tool. You cant do literally anything with it.
Its the easiest CMS around. (content managing system = lets you upload stuff to your site in a easy way)
joomla, drupal, nuke... all harder to code for than wordpress.

I suggest you find yourself a (free) domain and download Filezilla so you can connect with your site and upload Wordpress onto it!

About 7 months ago I started looking to get started with WP, took me a whole afternoon to figure things out, 3 hrs to find an instruction video! And another 3 to set it up. lol

http://www.cre8d-design.com/2006/08/wordpress-quickstart-screencast-tutorial-1/

If you need any help just send me a PM with specific questions.
Good luck!

[kash86uk]

Wordpress is a very, very, VERY versatile tool. You cant do literally anything with it.
Do you mean: you can do anything with it, you wrote cant?

I suggest you find yourself a (free) domain and download Filezilla so you can connect with your site and upload Wordpress onto it!
So, can someone just add commenting feature to their current website with wordpress? you dont need to use word press web template?

[surfbouy]

Hi
Word press is pretty adaptable..
If you look at the code in the themes area you can see how it works ie.
there is a php file called comments.php, single.php for the single posts etc.
As for the theme there is no problems just modifying one of the themes to match your current website so it appears seamless as I have done at
http://www.corporatehippies.com.au
You can then use the database information on any of your pages to display the output...
Good Luck
P.S I used wordpress for dummies the book, it's probably at google books to browse.

[kash86uk]

thanks surfbouy and ZUser1.

[handcraftedweb]

So, can someone just add commenting feature to their current website with wordpress? you dont need to use word press web template?

I use just the Wordpress internals for this page:

http://vijayanderson.com/calendar.php

The site owner (my brother, actually) can add new entries through the wordpress blog interface (he doesn't know HTML), and they go into the WP database.

Then to put the entries on the page, this code is at the top of the page:

<?php
// Include Wordpress
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('wp-blog-header.php');
?>

and then to actually pull the stuff out of WP this code loops through the entries and inserts them in page:

<?php query_posts('showposts=-1');
while (have_posts()):
the_post();
echo '<p class="blog-entry-title">';
the_title();
echo "</p>\n";
echo '<div class="item-body">';
the_content();
echo "</div>\n";
endwhile;?>

The result is basically a simple blog that doesn't look like a typical WP blog. I'm not a Wordpress expert, so I'm not sure this is the best way to do it, but but it's been working OK for a few months now.

I can't say I fully understand your problem, but this illustrates that you can fairly easily pull the data out of Wordpress without using WP templates.

...Mike

[kash86uk]

thanks handcraftedweb. this is the answer i am looking for!!

yeah, my question is bit difficult to understand, as i didnt know how to say it as i dont really know much about wordpress and php.

Do you put these in the body tag?

[handcraftedweb]

thanks handcraftedweb. this is the answer i am looking for!!

yeah, my question is bit difficult to understand, as i didnt know how to say it as i dont really know much about wordpress and php.

Do you put these in the body tag?

The first part, this:

<?php
// Include Wordpress
define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('wp-blog-header.php');
?>

is at the very top of the page, before any HTML. The second part is in embedded in the body of the HTML, where ever you want the blog entries to show up in the page.

...Mike

[kash86uk]

this is great, thanks.