Cumulus, Wordpress & Data

[pacificblue03]

Hello all, i have a simple question but i can assume the answer is detailed.

My current website is running just normal htm pages that come with cumulus the pages i have edited to my liking, now i want to be moving into Wordpress and from what i understand is wordpress runs on php. so if my .htm pages are uploading to my website but wordpress will only read the .php pages, how will i manage to integrate the pages i had created to display inside my wordpress pages? by that i mean, is it possible to display my html pages and still use wordpress?

thanks in advance.

Antonio.

[GraemeT]

Hi Antonio,
My (limited) understanding of Wordpress is that it is a website development platform, ie. wordpress is used to generate webpages from templates the website developer provides it with.

It's primary objectives used to be for creating and maintaining blog sites.

You might be able to convert your existing pages to templates for Wordpress to process, but my guess is it's more work than most of us would want for very little gain.

On the other hand, if it's a php website you want, it isn't that difficult to convert from 'plain' html to php using 'standard' web authoring tools.

Cheers.

[pacificblue03]

Hi graeme thanks for your reply. I was just thinking of WordPress since I would like to make a website for my storm chasing which will have the current conditions a RSS of tweets and a forum. if I can do this without WordPress please do let me know as I think it would make my life easier.

thanks

Antonio .

[GraemeT]

As I said, my knowledge of wordpress is limited, so I can't really advise much.

You could link your existing pages to those created by wordpress - when all is said and done, the pages built by wordpress, joomla, and other development systems are still html.

[pacificblue03]

hmm i dont know if id know how to do that, but so far im thinking an iframe..

[OliII]

Hi !
I use Wordpress for my website and found a plugin called AmberPanther WP Include File website
Make some settings and i can import the html files from cumulis to my webpages.
But, some themes make changes for some pages like the gauges.. and i'll make some changes to the weatherstyle.css to get a normal page (some css items are the same into the WP style and the cumulus style).

[pacificblue03]

Hi !
I use Wordpress for my website and found a plugin called AmberPanther WP Include File website
Make some settings and i can import the html files from cumulis to my webpages.
But, some themes make changes for some pages like the gauges.. and i'll make some changes to the weatherstyle.css to get a normal page (some css items are the same into the WP style and the cumulus style).

thank you, i will look into this.