We will now be working on incorporating the new Wordpress version 2.2.1 into our php link directory site. Soon hopefully we will have this done and begin providing information, additional mods, along with tips and tricks about the most popular directory script – php Link Directory. 

We have incorporated Wordpress by making some new template pages – header, index, and footer and using some of our template code for the display and then installing the Worpress php code in the proper places and saving the new template pages as Wordpress php files. Then taking the site template css style sheet and adding in some css for the Wordpress display and saving it in the new Wordpress template. As you can see the Wordpress blog now looks just about the same as the home page in the php Link Directory Mods directory giving the blog a nice blended look into the site.

Next we will work on full smarty template integration for Wordpress and then if successful we will tell about it here on our new blog and set up a download for complete instructions. This would probably be the best way to integrate Wordpress into the phpLD directory as it is powered by the smarty template system.

But for now it can be integrated by using the process of making some cloned html pages of your site and adding in the Wordpress php code and and then saving as php pages in your existing Wordpress template. For instance what I did was to take the default Wordpress template and then make a new index and header page using my html code for my site’s template stripping out any smarty code. Then I added in the Wordpress index.php code into my index template clone and then saved it as the new index.php and did the same process to the header but only using the necessary code and then saved that as the new header.php in the Wordpress default template. If you try this process it will work but you will have to have some patience and play around with the new template pages and your css code to get the look you want. You also will need to make a custom sidebar page and add your Wordpress sidebar.php code to that saving the new page as sidebar.php so your sidebar will display to blend in with your site. I will modify this post later with a little more details on the above integration process and hopefully have a smarty version to share soon.

Good luck and happy blogging with your new phpLD integrated with Wordpress.