Convert a Wordpress site to CMSMS

[musicscore]

Is it possible to convert a Wordpress site to CMSMS. I tryed to capture the HTML code and convert that to CMSMS but a lot of errors.

Is there someone out there who has some good tips and hints

[Dr.CSS]

They seem to have div/classitis so just trying to use the HTML from a page source view is out for me, so what I do is take a screen capture and build it myself to look exactly the same...

[velden]

Is it possible to convert a Wordpress site to CMSMS. I tryed to capture the HTML code and convert that to CMSMS but a lot of errors.

Is there someone out there who has some good tips and hints

I don't think it would be any different than creating another template for CMS Made Simple.

Further your question is much too vague. 'lot of errors'?

[musicscore]

I want to convert this site to CMSMS :

http://www.lightandhealth.nl/

When I import the source code of the page (the html code I see in my browser / firefox) and copy it to the new template I create I get errors like "}" missing etc.

[velden]

A CMSMS template has a few requirements:

1. contain a default content block: {content}
2. it uses Smarty, so code should be valid to use with smarty.

Smarty uses { and } as a delimiter. The Javascript and CSS in the code is using those same characters in the code. Smarty will try to interpret it as Smarty code but fails.

Solution:
- enclose the css and javascript in {literal} ... {/literal} tags OR
- replace all opening tags in js and css '{' with '{ ' (add an space after the curly opening bracket).

This should work for recent versions of CMSMS.

[musicscore]

Thanks for the quick repsonse. I will try your advise. Will take some time because is a lot of code.

Again, thanks for the quick repsonse. This is why a really like CMSMS. Great forum support.

[Dr.CSS]

WOOOW! good luck on that one, it has more stylesheet calls than any site I've ever seen and more JS calls then there are scripts on the innerwebs... YOW

[musicscore]

I wil make a start but I'm not hopefull. The site even loads a lot of extra fonts etc. and yes, a lot of stylesheets. Do not know if that is normal for Wordpress. Maybe it's wise to tel this customer I cannot convert this site.

[velden]

It should be possible but it will be some work. I'll bet there are some tools to download all css,js, images (perhaps browsers offer this possibility).

After that is matter of uploading files to proper location on webserver and change some paths probably.
Then work on the template.

[musicscore]

The fonts are locate on the server before the html root so it is not possible to download those fonts. I downloaded the fonts from an external source. As I said, I will give it a shot and see how far I will get. Just to learn is worth it. (I hope)

[velden]

The fonts are locate on the server before the html root so it is not possible to download those fonts.

No they're not. How do you think a browser will load the fonts if they're not downloadable?

[musicscore]

Indeed. Good Question. In CSS there is a line :

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@font-face {
  font-family: 'Adobe Caslon Pro Bold';
  src: url('./fonts/ACaslonPro-Bold.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
  src: url('./fonts/ACaslonPro-Bold.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */
       url('./fonts/ACaslonPro-Bold.woff') format('woff'), /* Modern Browsers */
       url('./fonts/ACaslonPro-Bold.ttf')  format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
       url('./fonts/ACaslonPro-Bold.svg#09ec7fcf3550cc6d857e9fb1a17c52a9') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */
       
  font-style:   normal;
  font-weight:  700;
}

The dot in "./fonts/***" maded me think 1 one level down to the root.

As I mentioned, I have a lot to learn.

[Jeff]

/file.ext - is in the root directory of the website
./file.ext - is in the current directory (may not be the root dir)
../file.ext - is in the parent directory relative to the file that is calling it so if the css file is /css/mycss.css then the parent is the root directory of the website.

[musicscore]

Thank you for this explanation. Very helpfull.