demonhale — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:42:31 +0000

All that you have suggested above Ive made for the client and suggested, Now I know I must use the hack version since theirs no plugin... WP is the main CMS they want to use including for their front page, its ok once youve hacked the frontpage then for the succeeding pages use post new page options and then it will be more like a site than a blog...

Roo — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:08:12 +0000

And just some advice if this is something that you feel you'll be getting in over your head with:

Upload Wordpess to a test directory on your own site and work with customizing so the client won't be left in the lurch while you climb a learning curve.

JeevesBond — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:50:14 +0000

Have to admit Roo's solution sounds like the best! Or just change the index.php to main.php (or something along those lines) then drop in an index.html that will be the default page.

That's if you want it all in the same directory.

Roo — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:40:39 +0000

Why not just create a static index.html page designed like the rest? Just put Wordpress into a different directory. It doesn't have to be in the root.

demonhale — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:29:52 +0000

the hard thing is to hack the post new page option become the default, and make the default front page not a blog but a page that is at the post options...

Roo — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:24:59 +0000

Well...Wordpress is completely standards compliant, and uses CSS totally for layout...all css positioning, no tables, so you'd first need to get really good with writing good, clean, valid XHTML, and using CSS for positioning.

What would be so hard about making it work as a CMS?

demonhale — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 03:55:11 +0000

they specifically wanted that kind of CMS (wordpress) and they would like to use a static and pange on front (not the default blog)... So I was wondering if anybody knew of any plugins, coz the hack method would be difficult for the clients, and I dont have the time to code a WP plugin from scratch...

JeevesBond — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 18:31:37 +0000

demonhale wrote: I prefer to code from scratch,

Same here, but if the time constraints don't allow you enough leeway then you'll have to do something else.

And they specifically want that CMS, or just something that looks like it? If it's what the customer wants - and it's something you're happy to work with - then use it.

demonhale — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:38:58 +0000

so theres still no answer to my question...

I prefer to code from scratch, but its a challenge for me since they wanted something like the CMS mentioned...

JeevesBond — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 01:06:21 +0000

Quote: Actually, I could tell that was WordPress right when I saw it. It's just something about the three-column layout and the whole "category" and "monthly" drop-boxes.

LOL, poo. Well my original point still stands! Probably a bad example then (and I preferred her previous design with the butterfly anyway).

Ok, I'm out of my depth here, I know nothing about Mambo! The only generic advice I'd offer is that if the html it throws out is 1) Semantically correct. 2) Has enough css hooks then you'll be able to do whatever you like with it, therefore you'll be free to stop it from looking like a CMS.

If, however, it uses piles of tables, font tags, deprecated rubbish then it'll always look like every other Mambo site (and remember I don't know which category it falls into, so please no flaming ) because the formatting is always in the html it throws out.

As Yoda said: "Mmmmmmm ... Feel the Code."