I’m adding a blog section to my website and I just want to use the WordPress backend for it’s Post Editor and Moderator functions. I don’t need the user system (on-site, but yes for moderators making content on the backend), just want to have my templated page ready with a spot for PHP to load the article (and meta data) provided by WordPress.
Maybe later I’ll use some WordPress plugins as well on the page, but just want to start with the basics.
Is this possible?
Basically, I have the page setup already, just need the post for the area.
I haven’t actually set up WordPress just for that but I do have a couple of blogs where the posts are also displayed elsewhere.
You’ll need the header.php file linked into the page where the posts are to display and then call the appropriate functions in it to extract what you want in the page.
You can insert the post into the appropriate spot in your page by inserting the loop (https://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop). You also need your css stylesheet properly set up for WordPress, etc. Check out the Codex for information about setting up a basic theme. No plugins or any other extras are necessary.