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To migrate over this site, i just shelled in and rsynced my www folder (took about 1 minute – including my personal large uploads folder). Then, just turn on the database, tweak the wp-options and I was online.

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Basically what you do is install wordpress and get it running on its own, then dump in your ci setup, replacing the wordpress index file with your codeigniter one.

Next, modify the index.php (Codeigniter bootstrapper) and require in the wp-load.php file (wordpresses bootstrapper)

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/*
|--------------------------------------
| LOAD THE FRONT CONTROLLER
|--------------------------------------
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| And away we go...
|
*/
 
require_once 'wp-load.php';
require_once BASEPATH.'codeigniter/CodeIgniter'.EXT;
 
/* End of file index.php */
/* Location: ./index.php */

This is pretty much it.. the only other thing you need to do is to use the wp_head() to pull in all the css/js that are required from any modules.

Because all of wordpress is run from the global space with functions (as apposed to a main class like CI) all the functions are available to you in your templates and views in ci..

Now, you have a wp-admin with all your content and your client access powering content for a 100% CI front end.

What we are doing (thanks Easily Amused for the idea) is building categories for each area (like a weblog in EE) and letting our customer add posts and add them to that category to go on that page… Like a homepage cateory, the latest post gets pulled in

The following code is in my view! (sorry about the crappy formatting, this site is wordpress and it freaks out when putting wp code into posts…

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Homepage Only Feed

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    query_posts('numberposts=1&cat=3');
    while ( have_posts() ) : the_post()
     <h3><?php the_title() ?></h3>
     <p><?php the_content(); ?></p>
    <p>Updated <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></p>
   <?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>
  <?php endwhile; ?>
 <h3>Flickr Feed Plugin</h3>
  <?php widget_flickrRSS(array()); ?>

There is a lot more to be done, next step i will be working on is a CI library that uses the WP users/auth, so it can be portable, as well as some kind of module in WP that has easy access to CI Models & Controllers like doing an AJAX call or AMF Call