milliAmp

I installed WordPress 2 last week and decided to have a play around with the capabilities and see whether it would be a feasible alternative to my custom CMS which is missing a few features (mainly any blogging capability).

I decided to see if I could port my current site’s visual style to a WordPress theme and instead of starting from scratch, I decided play around with K2. It turned out to be surprisingly easy. The fact is, K2’s DOM Tree was almost exactly the same as the DOM tree for my site. The differences were mainly around the fact that I’d used ID attributes for my main content divs and K2 used classes, simply fixed, took about 10 minutes to complete and now I have WordPress in my original theme.

I’ll probably go back through later today and reinstall the K2 theme and just change the stylesheet instead of what I did which was edit all the files to change the classes/ids around.

I’ve seen a couple of issues so far, one is that the comment box stretches right out past my container div. The other is that I’m not using any styles from K2 so there aren’t any nice things happening with quotes and lists etc that K2 had.

Something I noticed about Themes in WP is that you can almost totally forget about the page content when you’re messing around with the ordering of divs and each file is quite independant, finally being brought together in the template files. Nice.

Anyway, I intend to actually blog to my site, I’ve found a WordPress-integrated wiki which may serve as a replacement for my ‘Resources’ module, the search is a little better than I had mine.