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Nick Thomas
Nick Thomas

Reputation: 67

Integrating Wordpress from one WP site into another non WP site

I am developing a mobile version of a current WP site, but this mobile version is not WP. So I need to be able to access the information in the database of the non-responsive, existing WP site in this new one. The mobile site is located in a sub-folder called mobile (somesite.com/mobile) in the root directory of the current WP site.

I've visited the WP forum and posted this same question without responses. I've also read their integration page (http://codex.wordpress.org/Integrating_WordPress_with_Your_Website) but it doesn't seem like that would work for this application, because I figure it would just cause the mobile index.php page in the /mobile folder to just revert to the main theme.

Any suggestions or advice would be much appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 65

Answers (2)

Tiago Gouvêa
Tiago Gouvêa

Reputation: 16820

You must create the new site using data from the WP site.

Ok. You will need to create your html/php files, but, using WP database.

You can just access WP database and query it... but you will have a lot of work, in some places... like, URL, you will need to transcript URLs saved on database, and, when a user click on that link, you will need treat it to find "back" what URL it means, to catch the content.

I't not a easy job.

The WP_Query (http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query) class can easy your life. The WP_Db (http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/wpdb) too. Both, I think you can use without the whole WP.

But, like @Jonathan said, build a responsive template will be a best solution.

Upvotes: 0

Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 1564

You should use the integration guide you posted:

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);

This part tells wordpress not to use themes.

I think a better approach to this problem is to make the current wordpress theme responsive: there are a number of ways to achieve this: you can add separate stylesheets for different browser sizes: http://css-tricks.com/resolution-specific-stylesheets/ or you can use css3 media queries directly in the stylesheet: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Media_queries

Upvotes: 2

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