使用WordPress控制网站上的一页（博客/新闻提要）

Question

A Little Information

I have built a bespoke website that has nothing to do with wordpress, the root directory looks something like this:

domain.com/            // index.php
domain.com/about/      // about.php
domain.com/contact/    // contact.php
domain.com/news/       // news.php
etc...

However, I would like to use WordPress to control the content on one page within the site ( domain.com/news ) whilst keeping the current website design on this page.

I have started by installing WordPress to a sub-directory here domain.com/_wp/ . I am not too sure where to go next...

I do not want WordPress to have anything to do with the pages on my site, apart from the domain.com/news page, but as I am unfamiliar with WordPress, I do not have any idea how to do this.

I have looked around the web at particular forums, but none of them really make sense to me:

1. http://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-i-use-wordpress-on-only-part-of-my-website-and-design-the-rest-in-dw
2. http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

My Question(s)

I will write the code to retrieve the 'News Feeds' from the WordPress database on the domain.com/news/ , but in the meantime I would like to know the following:

1. At the moment, there are a lot of sections in WordPress that I don't need, like 'Pages' etc. How can I strip WordPress down to include only the Blog Editing tools?
2. What section should I be using to add posts to my 'News Feed'? I assume I should be uisng the 'Posts' section but I just want confirmation :-)
3. WordPress has applied one of its themes to the site in the Appearance tab, should I just be ignoring this? Should I also be ignoring Widgets and menus etc as they have nothing to do with the content being posted?

I apologize for all of the above questions, WordPress is a little more complicated than I originally thought it would be. I have tried to solve all of the above myself, but sadly have not had any success, and I hope all I need now is just a pointing in the right direction

Answer 1

From the WordPress documentation , to display posts only:

<?php
require('/the/path/to/your/wp-blog-header.php');
$posts = get_posts('numberposts=10&order=ASC&orderby=post_title');
foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<?php the_date(); echo "<br />"; ?>
<?php the_title(); ?>    
<?php the_excerpt(); ?> 
<?php
endforeach;
?>

Now to trim the irrelevant sections in WP default themes ( /wp-content/themes/YOURTHEME/ ), you may either comment them out in the misc .php included templates, or using theme management.

Considering how you don't wish to integrate much in WordPress, only displaying posts would make the most sense.

Answer 2

The most simple way is to install Wordpress to a subfolder called news, and have it set up there.

So you will have:

index.php
about.php
contact.php
news.php

and a folder named news

Since the links you have domain.com/news/ are probably rewritten through apache, apache will now to get first the folders and if none found, then make the rewrite. So it will work from the start.

Answer 3

a very simple way of doing is making a iframe for you site that would just pull the wordpress site into your news page.

<div style='width: 900px; Height: 300px; Overflow: hidden;'> <iframe style='width: 918px; Height: 300px;' src="https://www.wordpress.com/" frameBorder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> </div>

you could also use margin controls to just display a small part of the page. margin-top: -50px; for example would cut off the head.

However this would slow down your site slightly as it having to run a whole subpage on your page, but if its just for one page it might be ok.