Hoping someone can help me. I have built myself a webpage and now i need a CMS for it .
The webpage is made by me entirely (not a WordPress theme or anything), the question is can WordPress be used for it as a CMS only and how? If not what is the best way to "bind" CMS to my webpage?
Thanks
Wordpress is a opensource and freely available platform where you can build your own website by using their themes as well as you can create your own theme or child theme.
You first need to understood your requirement and then decide to use any available theme or creates your own new theme. If you want to use your own webpage which you have created then create a new theme and use that code in new theme.
For creating a new theme please chek below link.
http://www.wpexplorer.com/create-wordpress-theme-html-1/
https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
You can, look at this link
https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
Here you will find an explanation on how to build a wordpress theme, i suggest you turn your webpage into a theme and then use wordpress as CMS.
It may take some work but in the future you will be thankful you did it.
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I am working on a portfolio website for a client where they need to be able to upload their work: videos and photos, and some text with (title, short description). Normally I would make such a website with a system like Wordpress, however, the way the website would work is not possible to build with Wordpress (unusual navigation and a more dynamic/animated way to switch between pages). So, I want to build this website by HTML and then connect a CMS system where they can upload their work, which will then properly loaded into HTML pages. I have tried to google solutions, but I cannot find a good approach/tool to do this. Does anyone have a good recommendation for me? Thank in advance, Jip Asveld
I think Wordpress theme is the best solution.
It is very easy to create Wordpress theme from HTML.
Of course, you can CMS functionality to the theme.
You can refer various documents by Google.
For instance, this is one of the documents.
https://websitesetup.org/html-to-wordpress/
Have you concisered a headless cms like https://forestry.io/? This ideal for static html websites, which you could combine with a framework like https://gohugo.io/ to build such a site.
So I've created a restaurant webpage from scratch (my first full webpage). I want to get into freelance work, but I've heard that a lot of people use WordPress and it's plugins to create websites fast. I'm not really a fan of template editing, but can I use my existing HTML and CSS, upload it to WordPress and edit it there, and utilize WordPress plugins? I really want to add stuff like online ordering, RSVP systems, or mini stores on these sites.
No Problem, you would be able to make custom templates with your existing HTML/CSS/PHP. While having the ability to take advantage of plugins. Using an open source platform like WordPress will give the administrative rights to the restaurant owner, and most likely prevent the requirement for maintaining the website.
Yes, you can use your own HTML, CSS or JavaScript to create a theme and start from there. It might take you longer but you can do it.
Wordpress allows you to create a "Child Theme". With this, you are able to have your own stlying (css) or custom JavaScript. The advantage of doing this is when the theme publisher (assuming you are not the original creator of the theme) updates the theme, all your custom styles and JavaScript will remain intact. That is a good way of going around it.
If you want a quick solution, most themes come with a "Customize" section where you are able to paste your own styling. All the best!
A helpful link on creating child themes is https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/advanced-topics/child-themes/
I've been running my own blogger website from sometime and now I thought might be the time of some changes.
I'm also a website designer. TBH I suck at PHP but I'm good at html. I have designed a Home page for my site and I Want to put it to my website. But the problem is that the site is running on WordPress theme.
So, is there a way that I somehow put my html coding of Home Page into the theme and the rest remains the same(I mean the rest of the pages).
Thank You
Well if you want to modify the theme, you will have to create a child theme because if the Theme has an update, you will lose your modification.
Create a child theme is not very difficult and the Codex tutorial is not complicated : https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
Hope i answered correctly. If not, tell me why.
I have a website written in HTML5 and CSS3 and I want to use this site in WordPress. I tried to upload it like template, but it didn't work. How can I solve this issue?
Sirko pointed you in the right direction. WordPress relies on PHP processing and MySQL database so you cannot simply upload it to the theme folder and activate. The HTML and CSS theme will need to be modified to incorporate the core WordPress theme development, at least. It isn't that difficult if you understand how WordPress works.
If you simply want to start with converting the theme to WordPress to support pages and menus alone, it isn't so complicated. If you are very new to this, it might be a stumbling block. You really should learn the core components to making a WP theme. Good luck!
Elegant themes walkthrough - HTML converted to WordPress
Your question is far too general to answer without you narrowing the scope; start with https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page to find out how to install and run WordPress, read https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development if you want to adapt your current design to a WordPress theme. And you will need to import content, either by the database or manual entry with the WordPress editor. Read up and then come back to SO with more specific questions.
There is a reason why people sell themes either with HTML5 and Wordpress, though seperate in nature but structural in bound.
It is a long process but simple if you have knowledge of websites:
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/converting-html-sites-to-wordpress-sites
Same as Markatledge said previously, by following the link above it can help you.
I am new to WordPress theme development.I need to know how to convert an html page to wordpress theme completely with theme option and how to create widgets for themes.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
The best way to start developing themes is to look at the way existing themes are build and to look at the WordPress codex (as Marc suggested). If you follow the WordPress standards and get used to the system, WordPress is a very flexible platform for building websites.
Another thing: Google is your best friend :) Almost everything you want to do with WordPress has already been asked on Google.
Good luck!
Their are alot of tutorials online but I suggest starting with something simple like this free program from http://www.wpsiteconvertor.com/
Basicaly the whole gist of creating a wordpress theme (lets say you have one page and a style file) you would have to seperate that page into like 5 files minimum header.php, footer.php, index.php,you would also need to make style file changes and add a functions.php file. But take a look at that program above and you will see what kind of codes are added to a site to make a wordpress theme work.