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Basel Razouk
Basel Razouk
14,046 Points
Posted by Basel Razouk
Basel Razouk
14,046 Points

Migrating a PHP/HTML/CSS site to Wordpress

Hi, I've created a website following the PHP/HTML/CSS tutorials which I would now like to migrate to wordpress. I have followed through the custom wordpress tutorials, however I'm still unsure what is the best way to transfer a custom php function to wordpress. For example, I have created some filtering and searching on one of the pages which I would like to replicate in wordpress without using a plugin. Does anybody have any tips as to what the best way of doing this is ? Thanks in advance.

1 Answer

Zachary Dahan
Zachary Dahan
2,392 Points
Zachary Dahan
Zachary Dahan
2,392 Points

This depends of your actual website but in Wordpress you have few .php to personalize for create a theme.

First, here's the official doc about create a WP Theme :

  • The header of your website should be placed on a file called header.php. Basically, if you've done your website correctly with PHP, you've nothing to do, except Wordpressize it (like use wp_title(); in the <title> tag.)
  • The index.php correspond to your homepage. All missing template part redirect to this page. (i.e : if you doesn't have a page.php, Wordpress will use index.php instead.)
  • The style.css witch contain the template settings accessible here.
  • The page.php who contain the page template
  • The footer.php for the footer
  • And finally the single.php for articles.

If you've a page who use a particular architecture, maybe you should create a template file just for those kind of pages. For doing that, just specify this on the top of a page-yourcustumpage.php :

<?php
/*
Template Name: My Custom Page
*/

After that, you can choose in the WP Backoffice a model for your specific page. And WP will use you page-yourcustumpage.php template for this page only.

Your question is a way too large but, I hope I helped you. :)