Put wordpress on a site with an existing page.

Chris Cummings    PHP, Wordpress    

So I had this site that already had a page up.  I needed to install wordpress in the root and make some changes but I didn’t want wordpress to be live to the general public…after asking in 4 forums and not getting help I figure this out.  I was thinking I should use .htaccess but I solved this with a stand alone page and a cookie checker added to the themes header.php

Here’s the good:

1. Moved my current page from www.site.com to www.site.com/sub/
2. Created a page accessible only to me on the site that sets and destroys a cookie in the root directory using something like this:

   $action = $_GET['action'];
   if ($action == "create")	{	setcookie("dealvilletempcookie123", "yes", time()+(60*60*24*365),"/");			}
   if ($action == "destroy")	{	setcookie("dealvilletempcookie123", "no", time()+(60*60*24*365),"/");				}

 

3. In the header.php file of the WP theme I check the cookie.
   If its set to YES then I do nothing (which opens the WP install in the root directory)
   If its set to NO (or not set or set to anything else) then I use the PHP header function to redirect…do this at the very top of the header file, before you load an WP stuff.  ITS THE LAW!

Whoop…there it is.

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