Hi everyone,
I need to self-host my own TNEW template and CSS files on my website. Does anyone have experience doing that with a Wordpress website?
I've made a new page with the visual composer disabled so that I can add the HTML comment:
<!‐‐TNEW content here‐‐>
Once I have a valid SSL certificate and put the TNEW.CSS file with the other CSS files in Wordpress, will this work?
It's possible for this to work, but there are a couple of important things to realize:
1. The template will not be served from wordpress on every single page load. TNEW will load the template from wordpress and then cache it — this means you can't use any per-pageload dynamic content in wordpress and expect it to behave the same way it does when people are browsing your wordpress site as usual.
2. TNEW is basically re-serving the HTML that it loads from your wordpress site, and it does so at a different domain. This is why there is a requirement for the resources in your template HTML to be referenced using absolute URLs. If your template contains a reference to, for example, "/wp-content/images/some.png", when the HTML is re-served to the browser at yourtnewsite.example.com, the user's browser will try to download that resource from yourtnewsite.example.com/wp-content/images/some.png, which will fail, because the resource really exists at yourwordpresssite.example.com/wp-content/images/some.png.
Did you have any luck Steven? I tried using WordPress to self-host our skin, but none of the CSS is coming through,
On TNEW v6 we did this without issue. On moving to TNEW v7, however, we had conflicts between our javascript libraries and TNEW v7 javascript libraries and had to switch to a static HTML template. We use large mega menus in our navigation, so we do have to update that file periodically but it's not too much of an issue as long as you have someone on staff who's HTML-literate.