By iamwill on

I am trying to convert over to Drupal from WordPress. Everything is fairly new to me too. Anyway, I have a wordpress theme that I REALLY enjoy, and do not want to sacrifice it. I have already migrated over all of my comments, articles, and pages, but the theme is the last thing to go, then I will do my full conversion. I didn't know where else to ask, how in the hell do you convert a theme? I read the walk-through's, and most do not apply to me simply because I do not have half of the files that you have to merge. So, can someone please help me on converting this over....

The theme layout (from what I can see) would be something like the following...

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| Title bar | sidebar
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| Content section
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| Footer
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The following is all of the files that comprise the theme: http://www.geekbin.net/theme/

http://www.geekbin.net/theme/archive.phps
http://www.geekbin.net/theme/archives.phps
http://www.geekbin.net/theme/comments.phps
http://www.geekbin.net/theme/footer.phps
http://www.geekbin.net/theme/header.phps
http://www.geekbin.net/theme/index.phps
http://www.geekbin.net/theme/style.csss

To see a working version of this theme and how it should operate, visit my site... http://www.geekbin.net/main/

Again, if someone can just point me in the right direction, so that I can port this theme, that would be GREAT!! Any help is appreciated too, thanks.

Will
iamwill@geekbin.net

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

Here is 'an' approach. http://www.blkmtn.org/Quick-and-dirty-OSWD-theme-to-Drupal

Save your example page locally as an HTML page. Then start replacing the stuff inside it with the Drupal vairables in your page.tpl.php. You might consider making the tags and menu area in the header a 'region' then you can place drupal blocks in them.

See http://drupaldojo.com/lesson/theming-like-a-pro as well.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

iamwill’s picture

iamwill commented

okay, so following the first guide, i come up with this...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html>

<head>

  <title><?php print $head_title ?></title>
  <?php print $head ?>
  <?php print $styles ?>
  <?php print $scripts ?>
</head>

<body>

<div class="container">

<div class="header"><a href="<?php print $base_path ?>" title="<?php print t('Home') ?>"><?php print $site_name ?></a></div>

<div class="main">
<div class="padded">
        <h1 class="title"><?php print $title ?></h1>
        <div class="tabs"><?php print $tabs ?></div>
        <?php print $help ?>
        <?php print $messages ?>
        <?php print $content; ?>
</div>
</div>
	
	<div class="clearer"><span></span></div>

	<div class="footer">
<span class="left"><?php print $footer_message ?></span>
<span class="right">Template design by <a href="http://arcsin.se">Arcsin</a></span>
<div class="clearer"><span></span></div>
</div>

</div>

</body>

</html>

and it has decided not to use my style.css which is in the same directory. not sure why, but it isnt working... is anything wrong with what I have so far?

or is it the style sheet? is there anything that i have to change in that to get this working?

chrisada’s picture

chrisada commented

I can't see anything wrong in your page.tpl.php. What are the HTML generated? (Switch to the theme and view source from browser) Looking at the generated code in the head section should point out where the problem lies.