I'am new to wordpress. Please help with my queries. My client has a running website with SSI (html based only) but as the site is becoming bigger with more pages keep on coming in, some hassles are also coming. html content is added manually to the pages. header, footer, left bar and right bar is the same for whole website except for the middle part containing different content for different pages. As now the client wants to switch over to wordpress to make the site more manageable and secure, I have few questions in my mind. If you can throw some light on these, I will appreciate all your responses. 1.Which is the best wordpress theme to be downloaded and made active for a previous running website with 3 columns(left bar, body part, right bar) and adsense enabled? 2. Will it be possible if I do not want comments on some pages and needs only on a few? 3. The site is using SSI - different parts of the website like header, footer, left and right bar are same and have been included through different files. As wordpress is using PHP, will there be any problems with SSI. 4. Adsense is coming in the left, right, and middle areas. Can it be customized or is there any theme that is available like I mentioned? 5. Is there any popular theme with good support that can serve my purpose. Actually I want the website to look absolutely same as it is current. Sorry, I can't disclose the site name. Thanks
Wait, you want the website to look absolutely the same as it is current? But the site isn't running WordPress so you want a theme that looks exactly like the site does now. You need to create your own custom theme then, it sounds to me. You would create a layout in Photoshop and convert your PSD to a WordPress theme - there are services that do this very reasonably if you do not know how.
If you need it to look exactly the same, whatever we suggest will be wrong - but if you provide a screenshot, blanking out the bits that reveal the site, I might be able to find something. There are absolutely millions of themes that have left/body/right so I dont think you'll have any problems with finding one. Yep, very easy and comes with Wordpress - each page & post has the option to turn off comments and trackbacks. I have no idea about this one, sorry. You can use a plugin called WhyDoWork Adsense that makes it really easy to achieve what you are after: http://www.whydowork.com/blog/whydowork-adsense-plugin/ Else, if you need something even more configurable, I recommend OIO Publisher (about $50) Even though you want it to look the same, I'm going to make some theme recommendations, but just know that .. without seeing the site, it's hard to recommend any. These are all premium themes with good support that have themes with left/body/right: Anything by woothemes - actually, I reckon the last 30 blogs I've setup have been from themes through these guys. Thesis is highly configurable, highly supported, and expensive. WPNow have a couple of nice ones & support is responsive. But, like I said earlier, it's so hard to make recommendations without seeing the site or a screenshot of the layout. I've been looking through themes for the past 3 days for a client, trying to find the perfect one.. its really hard - easy when you are trying to find something for yourself - hard when you have to take into consideration what the client wants. Oh yeah.. a site that I've been spending a lot of hours on lately to look at themes is this one: http://www.premiumwp.com/ - honestly, you can waste many hours looking for themes. The only advice I can offer when looking is don't go too much for the free/cheap themes, I have had so many dramas having to reconfigure themes to make them work with multi-browsers and digging around in code trying to get things working. I have never had that problem with the premium themes I've bought - and if I've had any questions, at least they have support!