Free CMS for RapidWeaver!

Fed up with the high-cost and difficult implementation of the current crop of CMS stacks for RapidWeaver? I was. So I made my own!
Using WordPress as the back end and some includes, I was able to get just what I want – and it was easy!
Here are the steps:

Install WordPress →
wp-config to get DB credentials →
wp_posts is the table that has the data (view in phpMyAdmin or equivalent) →
paste an include to your script (Perl, PHP etc) in RapidWeaver where you want the editable text →
give client the WordPress login/pass and page URLs they can edit.

Example includes:

.shtml


.php
<?php require '../includes/example.php' ; ?>

Benefits of this approach:

Free!
No licenses
No subscriptions
Use on as many sites as you want!

You don’t actually even need a DB to see how this approach works, just a text file. For example, FTP (or use cPanel) a text file to your server and then edit it online using Brackets or some other IDE.

<?php include 'includes/example.php' ; ?>

However, using WordPress for the back end offers many more options, especially for clients:

Version control (if they make a mistake, they can go back to a previous revision)
Easy to use editor
No FTP

Optional WordPress Plugins and Settings

<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

Always Edit In HTML – To help preserve your HTML formatting
Disable Comments
Disable XML-RPC

PHP Script
<?php $mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "username", "password", "database");

/* check connection */
if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
printf(“Connect failed: %s\n”, mysqli_connect_error());
exit();
}

/* Change wp_posts and ID to match your DB */
$query = “SELECT * FROM wp_posts WHERE ID=5 “;
if ($result = $mysqli->query($query)) {
while ($row = $result->fetch_row()) {
printf($row[4]);
}
/* free result set */
$result->close();
}

/* close connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>

Screenshots
RapidWeaver – sample HTML in a page