A developer just built a new section for my blog site that is separate from any of WordPress's functionalities. I was curious the best way to integrate these pages within the Gantry framework. Currently, the developer has these pages stored at the root of the site. To load the header, background and footer, he built an integration PHP file which first loads one of the Gantry pages and subsequently loads his code in the page's body. However, the page loading is very choppy as it is split into two distinct transitions. Any comments on how someone approached this issue in the past would be greatly appreciated.
Does anyone know if there was any way to dynamically integrate the header, footer and background from the Gantry framework to custom-developed PHP files. I believe we could hard-code the header, footer and background to match, but this does not seem practical as we may switch styling or menu items at a later date.