Title: Codeigniter   WordPress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Codeigniter WordPress

 *  [erdemcam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erdemcam/)
 * (@erdemcam)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-wordpress/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’m new in wordpress and also in codeigniter. For my work i have to use codeigneter
   framework with wordpress.
 * I don’t know how i can integrate or install codeigniter with wordpress.
 * Does anyone use codeigniter with wordpress?
 * Please help!

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 *  [flamenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flamenco/)
 * (@flamenco)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-wordpress/#post-1400460)
 * I could be wrong, but I don’t see how those would go together easily, if at all.
   Codeigniter is a development framework for building applications. WordPress is
   a system that’s already built.
 * I think you could build a large application like WordPress with Codeigniter. 
   But it would then rely on Codeigniter’s libraries and framework, so to make that
   happen I think you would have to rebuild WordPress from scratch. Unless Codeigniter
   can be used as more of a PHP editing framework as well?
 * Maybe a Codeigniter guru will weigh in.
 *  [krisjay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krisjay/)
 * (@krisjay)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-wordpress/#post-1400825)
 * [@erdemcam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erdemcam/)
 * You can Intergrate WordPress with CodeIgniter, but it really Depends on what 
   your ultimate application is going to be. But since WordPress and CodeIgniter’s
   file struture is different, you can drop in a codeigniter setup.
 * The easy way would be like this:
 * a.) Get Your WordPress Install and Database Working.
    b.) Drop in your CodeIgniter
   Setup, and get the Database Working. c.) Open the ‘index.php’ file of the WordPress
   Core. d.) Replace it with the CodeIgniter ‘index.php’ file, but add the following
   to the bottom of the file right before the codeigniter require:
 *     ```
       /** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
       require('./wp-blog-header.php');
       ```
   
 * That will give you a CodeIgniter FrontEnd, with a WordPress BackEnd (administration).
   You can then go about customizing the CodeIgniter Templates to Interact with 
   The WordPress Setup (posts, pages, etc).
 * Hope that helped!
 *  [jfranzone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfranzone/)
 * (@jfranzone)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-wordpress/#post-1400827)
 * That seems a bit silly. Why would you go through the trouble of installing WordPress
   and then… not use it.
 * Perhaps what erdemcam really wants is to build a website using CodeIgniter and
   then use WordPress for the blogging portion of the site? In this case I think
   you’d just be looking at installing WordPress to a /blog subdirectory and then
   telling CodeIgniter to ignore that path.
 *  [jorisw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jorisw/)
 * (@jorisw)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-wordpress/#post-1400828)
 * I came accross this thread thinking of CodeIgniter with WordPress on top.
 * For those wondering what the use would be, personally I think that as much as
   WordPress rocks as a platform, the underlying core of WordPress sucks in terms
   of design pattern. And CodeIgniter I think has a great design pattern, which 
   is MVC with some nicely separated libraries and helpers.
 * So to me, working out how to convert the WordPress core into a CodeIgniter application
   could be very interesting, albeit pretty time consuming. The WordPress CMS, The
   Loop and everything would still be there, just sitting on top of a proper MVC
   framework. WordPress 4 anyone?
 *  [pianoguy91](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pianoguy91/)
 * (@pianoguy91)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-wordpress/#post-1400836)
 * [@jorisw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jorisw/) If I am understanding 
   what you are saying, I completely agree that WordPress would be absolutely fantastic
   to use together with CodeIgniter. I came across [this article](http://philpalmieri.com/2009/06/codeigniter-and-wordpress-play-well-together/)
   just before I found this thread.
 * What this will allow you to do is use _all_ of the WordPress functions and queries
   you would usually use in a WP installation, but have the flexibility and power
   of the MVC pattern. This would be absolutely fantastic in a simple website that
   utilizes the power of both.
 *  [jorisw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jorisw/)
 * (@jorisw)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/codeigniter-wordpress/#post-1400837)
 * Interesting, will dive into it, thanks!

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