Intrest in using Collection Builder for a WordPress website

[persiebee]

Hello! I am working with a team doing a archive project for a wordpress website, I was wondering if you had any insite of any plugins or ways to implement Collection Builder into wordpress for our project? We want to be able to use CB to hold and show our archive off on our wordpress website but we really dont know where to start or if that is possible with the normal CB setups.

Any tips or advice would be amazing!
Thank you

[evanwill]

@persiebee I am not sure if I fully understand the question or context, but here is an attempt to clarify since I think others might have similar questions:

WordPress is a CMS, which is server-side software for creating, maintaining, and serving a website. CollectionBuilder is a template using a static site generator that outputs HTML which you then put on a server--it is a type of alternative to a CMS. So there isn't plugin or way to exactly put CollectionBuilder directly into Wordpress.

Generally, if your org had a Wordpress home site, you would just point out to your CB-based collection which is created and hosted separately. It wouldn't be something directly integrated into wordpress. If you have access to your server, you can put the CB site files on the same server, so you could use the same domain name, etc. If you own your domain, you can also build your CB site on github, and use CNAME files to set up a custom domain so the URL looks like it is in the same location.
For some organizations the difficulty will be that the CB theme looks nothing like their org theme. You can customize the CB theme extensively, but Wordpress themes tend to be pretty complicated, it is unlikely you can exactly match it. Instead our approach has been to have the digital collections have a distinct look different than the org home, that mirrors the org brand. Or of course you could just build your org site using CB too!