Go-Live Date: Nov 07, 2009 (Approximate)
Project Overview
Winter Illuminations resource blog shares information and tips to people interested in holiday lighting solutions.
Front End Description
The client wanted to add a WordPress blog to their existing site without the users knowing they were going from static pages to the WordPress site. I took their existing CSS and XHTML and created a simple theme so the change would be transparent to the user.
Back End Description
The only backend functionality for this was creating a javascript widget for the static pages that contained the latest blog posts Instead of putting in parser code on every page – I made a javascript widget so they could simply copy and paste one line of JS on each/any of their pages and output the recent blog posts.
Lessons Learned/Random Thoughts
So many people look for a way to add WordPress to their existing sites without having different styles or a different look and feel and this a perfect example of how easy it can be implemented.