Making WordPress "blend" with my CMS Site

[thumbsucker]

I have an existing CMS Made Simple site.

I also installed a standard WordPress Blog.

I'd simply like to get the WordPress blog to have the same look  & feel as my CMS Made Simple template.

Can someone help?

[Gosha]

Anyone know how to do this also?  I'm looking how to add the CMSMS menus into a wordpress in a different directory.  Can you use a php include or something?

[giggler]

I believe wordpress template has different files for header, sidebar and content area. All you really need to do is create the CMS site first and copy the header over the correct template file of wordpress, then copy over the sidebar if you have that. It's farely simple if you've worked with wordpress before:

wp-content > themes > default:

usually editing the following works:

header.php
sidebar.php
footer.php

maybe also the following for the center area:
archive.php
single.php
index.php
page.php

Then if you want to add worpress most recent post summary to the homepage that is CMSMS, you can use this (last post - I've also just redid it to automatically use the first sentence of the content instead of having to write an excerpt for every post):
http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 778.0.html

I don't know and have not explored of a way to do it automatically through php include, but the above "static" way works well enough for me since mostly if you were to change the menu, you'll just need to update the header.php in wordpress.

-Glenda