How easy is Wordpress?
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- aanderton0
I've always been tempted to learn how to skin word press. Never really got round to learning how to though. ideally I'd just like to be able to take my html design then drop the code in here and there. Looking through a few tuts though it seems you have to split you're page into a header, main section, and footer part. Then have separate php files for all 3? Is this the case?
Sorry to thread hijack btw.
- no no, hijack away this is all good info.. even your question!!Projectile
- You don't "have" to do it that way. You only need style.css and index.php if you want real simple.cramdesign
- But you will want more than just those two.cramdesign
- inteliboy0
Well if you're wanting to skin WP (take your photoshop design and make a site out of it) then start with a "framework" theme.
These are basically bare bones themes, just plain text, but with everything in the right place - just so you don't have to code in any of the basics yourself.
You can then start styling your header, links, paragraphs, move a menu around, add/delete modules etc.
- whatsup0
its easy like sunday mornin'
- lukus_W0
As easy as writing a book.
- spraycan0
to embed stuff in wp is not as easy as in a webpage you must first be a bit familiarized with wp
- graham4140
Easy like sunday morning. ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dun dun dun dun
- cramdesign0
Easy if you are a computer code kind of guy who laughs at someone calling HTML "programming". Difficult if you are one of those guys who calls HTML "programming".
- acescence0
you don't have to split your theme into header, footer, and body, that's just how it's typically done as most people reuse the header and footer on every page. you can have it all in one file if you'd like, or 20 files, it's up to you.
read thru the theming docs on the wordpress site to get a better understanding of how it works. a theme can consist of just one file, or you can have separate files for every type of page, or you can check the requested page yourself and load templates under all sorts of different conditions, as well as have templates selectable on a per-page basis from the admin panel.
i'll say it again, if you're thinking limitations, you just haven't completely grasped what is possible yet. read up on conditional tags, creating your own loops and multiple loops, setting up hooks and filters and the whole plugin API.
- acescence0
anyway... regarding your project projectile, if you get stuck on something and need some help, shoot me an email, i'll be happy to help out.
- AntiLabs0
it's easy.
- BattleAxe0
so easy Douchbags are deploying it and calling themselves Web Developers
- applepirate0
been messing with wordpress all weekend.. now im studying up on Ruby+rails(radiantCMS)...
god this stuff is great and all but i sure miss my flash timeline :(
- forcetwelve0
this helped me when i began to make my own themes for CMS sites for clients.