{"id":23,"date":"2012-11-25T19:01:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T01:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2012-11-25T19:02:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T01:02:18","slug":"another-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swingleton.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/another-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Another WordPress site"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally got around to updating www.lawrencemountainbikeclub.org<\/a> with a new design and moved it over to WordPress.<\/p>\n

I’m not ashamed to admit that a big hurdle for me was my existing PHP code for allowing people to join the club via our PayPal account. I loathed the idea of having to create some kind of custom page with hard-coded links, styled to look like it was a regular WordPress page.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, WordPress is amazingly intuitive about allowing me to add some comment lines to the top of a template page, and then have that template be an option on the default “Add New Page” entry screen. Instead of feeling like a complete hack, integrating my existing code – and even a separate MySQL database – with a WordPress template worked so smoothly, it almost felt like this was the way it was supposed<\/em> to be – that it wasn’t a kludge-y hack.<\/p>\n

Not to bash too hard on Drupal, but nothing with Drupal has ever felt nearly so logical and effortless. I guess I just have to say that I am extremely fortunate that I’ve not had to deal with such complex sites that Drupal offered the only real solution. And when I do cross that threshold, I hope my intuition wakes up and sees the Drupal solution with the same clarity!<\/p>\n

(A big hat-tip to Themeid.com<\/a> for their Responsive WordPress Theme<\/a>. Thank you!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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