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Integrate Wordpress and Price Tapestry With Ease

Thursday, 31 July 2008

Do you run a Wordpress blog with one of Brian Gardner's Revolution themes? Would you like to run a price comparison script along side it, both sharing a similar skin so visitors don't feel like they've jumped sites when they switch scripts?

Fear not as I've added two Price Tapestry Templates that look almost identical to Brian's templates (with his permission of course - thanks Brian!).

Take a look below for some screenshots of the two templates side by side.
 
Revolution Evolution Red

This is Brian's Sports theme and is red and grey in design. Here's the side by side pictures:

Revolution Evolution Red Vs Revolution Sports

Revolution Evolution Blue

This is Brian's News theme and is blue and grey in design. Here's the side by side pictures:

Revolution Evolution Blue Vs Revolution News

There are small differences with both templates but I think they're a good match and allow each script to offer what it specialises in. Wordpress offers articles (along with categories and archives) and RSS as a primary function. My templates offer search and navigation as a primary function. No good having a price comparison site with no navigation :-)

In terms of integration, all you need to do is add a tab to each of these linking to one another. The Wordpress and PT scripts run in isolation but are bridged by means of reciprocal navigation links and near-identical skins.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on these.

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klb

David

Good job! This might be just what it takes to take the plunge and invest.

I've been faffing about using free WP themes and getting nowhere.

How easy is it to integrate the WP and PT tho?

Fantastic work.

Written on Saturday 02 August 2008 at 11:50:14 GMT (Permalink)

David

@klb - Running them side by side is easy enough thanks to these templates. It would simply be a case of adding a navigation link to one another from each site.

There's also scope to add a search box to the Wordpress template to integrate the two even further.

Written on Saturday 02 August 2008 at 13:30:36 GMT (Permalink)

klb

Oooh!

I'm hoping to make my first foray into this AM malarkey and these templates might just have got me sorted.

Thanks for your quick response - on a Saturday!

Written on Saturday 02 August 2008 at 14:28:54 GMT (Permalink)

David

@klb - I'm around a lot so if you need any help, just ask ;-)

If you've got any PT Templates queries, send them via http://www.pricetapestrytem... and I'll help you as best I can.

Written on Saturday 02 August 2008 at 22:08:37 GMT (Permalink)

Phil Hancox

Very nice! Personally I'm not a fan of the Revolution theme any more (I think it's a bit too common now, despite the license required) but I think you've done a cracking job emulating the theme perfectly.

Written on Tuesday 05 August 2008 at 21:52:01 GMT (Permalink)

Gianni

cool template - i don't suppose you have or are considering doing one for the the Revolution tech theme.

Written on Wednesday 08 October 2008 at 20:04:35 GMT (Permalink)

David

@Gianni - Check out http://pricetapestrytemplat... :-)

Written on Thursday 09 October 2008 at 10:55:18 GMT (Permalink)