you are correct as to what i’m trying to do… i am trying to create a theme from a page that is built on php and includes….and from looking at my screen–the blog is installed at example.com/blog. I am having some difficulty because I’ve never had to create a template for wordpress as in-depth as the one I’m creating.

As stated, i am new to wordpress but quite knowledgeable of how to build a website. In my frustration, I may have explain incorrectly but the rudeness was not necessary. thanks for all your help.

example.com/blog - is NOT the root; it is a subdirectory of the root, which is example.com
(and no, you don’t have WP installed in the “blog” dir)

WordPress themes MUST be installed in the right place, which is (in your case) example.com/blog/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/ (provided you have already installed WP in the directory called “blog”).
If you have just some kind of files and not a properly coded WP theme - it will not work. Furthermore, you never access the theme files directly as you were trying to do. You must install the WP theme in the location I showed you above and see the blog at example.com/blog - everything else is incorrect.

Do yourself a favour and go and read the WordPress documentation. According to your site… you are web design professional so you should have a way better understanding how websites and CMS work. Sorry.

There are many ways to include (integrate, embed etc.) some content of a WP blog in an existing website. My tutorial shows just one possible way. But as I see it you don’t really need to “integrate” your blog into the existing website. You need to install WordPress in a subdirectory and code a theme based on your existing site, so that the main site and the blog look the same. If making a theme is too difficult for you, hire a pro.

And, finally, if you followed the instructions given on another website - why don’t you ask your questions there? I don’t provide help for other people’s tutorials.
If you have questions related to my post, I will be glad to answer them. If the task is above your head - you can use the contact form to ask for a quote if you want to hire me.

I’m new to incorporating a word press blog into a php site driven with includes… can someone please help.

totally lost.

the wp blog is installed at the root.. for example mydomain/blog

the files for the new site theme is in folder format ‘folder/theme’

i followed this direction: http://embedwordpress.com/

but i’m getting the following error message
http://inadcreative.com/f_site10/blogTheme/index.php

Thanks! I’m so new to this that I can’t quite follow those instructions yet–but I will go to the codex and start looking things over. It’s good to know, in advance, that the program CAN do just what I want it to… I just gotta figure out how. For an old FORTRAN hacker like me, that’s part of the fun. :-)

Thanks again,
Jeanine

As for the ‘green boxes’… I assume you know enough CSS to get it. Hint: Look at the output of WP in your page and apply the .box style to the repeating post or entry div (whatever it is called), the one that keeps the post’s title and content.

HTH

Today a couple of gals offered to help me with this nonprofit site IF they can use Wordpress. I navigated here looking for info on how to integrate Wordpress into my existing site. But I’m not sure if I’ve found what I need.

All I want to do is add a few AREAS on individual pages, which will allow other users to add content to the site. If you look at http://www.willametteartcenter.com, I have those little green side boxes on the right of the main page. Those are intended for the latest news–but I don’t always have time to update them. It would be ideal if those boxes (and ONLY those boxes) could be rigged up with a WordPress Loop so my helpers could log in regularly and post updates in those boxes. But they wouldn’t be permitted to mess with the rest of the page.

Can WordPress accomodate this? These gals are in love with it and it does sound like a nice easy interface that will help involve people in the site… but I want this to be About The Site, not About The Blog, you know? There’s a lot of work in the site, it has a ton of javascript and 3 different css files and hundreds of lines of code. I don’t need a theme or a template to lay out the site, that’s all been done. I just want to use elements of WordPress WITHIN that… does that make sense?

Can you help me narrow this down a little? maybe point to an example of something like this? I’d really appreciate it.