Integrated Blog with WordPress

[weatherc]

Thanks for the kind words. To add the blog was one point in my case (wich never will be finished, thanks to theese great peoples in this forum who produce new scripts to us to play with ) to get the site W3C-validated and cleaned up in "behind the scenes"-section.
One idea what I thought to try some day is to take one of the many WP's addons (ie. gallery) and get it to work.

Henkka

[BfdWx]

As you say, the Wordpress template system does lend itself pretty well to the work others have done on the WD templates.  When Ken releases his WD Carterlake / AJAX / PHP template, I hope to create a matching Wordpress template that folks can use with their own Wordpress installation and get their own weather blogs going without too much difficulty.

Tony,

I'm very interested in this as I now have mysql available. I downloaded all the wordpress php's and have everything working except for the integration. Can you help with this at this point?

Regards,

Jack

[ThorntonWeather]

Hey there, Jack! 

I do want to get this done as I know some folks want to give it a shot.  I should have time this weekend. 

Question...  Which template set are you using?  Looking at your site I presume the new one that Ken released in recent weeks?  Let me know as I will use whichever one you are using as the starting point (vice the other variations of the Carter Lake templates). 

   Tony

[BfdWx]

Hi Tony,

Thank you!! And yes I am using Ken's new template. I've tried to figure this out based on your first post and came close a couple of times but then my simple brain gets confused!!

Looking forward to your code!

Regards,

Jack

[ThorntonWeather]

Very sorry for being so slow getting to this - real life sometimes intrudes on my weather stuff and that is really annoying!

I kind of have this working but have two problems to figure out. 

1.  The sidebar.php links - The links don't work when the sidebar is included on the blog template because the path is wrong.  The blog is in a subdirectory and the sidebar expects the linked pages to be in the same directory.  May have to resort to a second copy of sidebar.php with the paths adjusted accordingly.  Not ideal as that is another page to have to maintain but it may be the only way to go.

2.  Theme switcher - A number of additions are required to the CSS files for the various WordPress definitions.  Adding those to one CSS file is okay but with the theme switcher those modifications would have to be made to each CSS file.  Trying to find a better way to accomplish this.

Anyway, I am working on this slowly.  Hopefully will have something soon.

    Tony

[BfdWx]

Very sorry for being so slow getting to this

All good things come to those that wait! I think I understand your problems and it would seem reasonable that sidebar would need to be in the blog directory which is no major problem just have to remember to update it separately. Even the CSS update is no big deal, a little time consuming but no problem!

Looking forward to your progress!

Thanks,

Jack