How easy is Wordpress?
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- forcetwelve0
this helped me when i began to make my own themes for CMS sites for clients.
- 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 :(
- BattleAxe0
so easy Douchbags are deploying it and calling themselves Web Developers
- AntiLabs0
it's easy.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- graham4140
Easy like sunday morning. ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh dun dun dun dun
- spraycan0
to embed stuff in wp is not as easy as in a webpage you must first be a bit familiarized with wp
- lukus_W0
As easy as writing a book.
- whatsup0
its easy like sunday mornin'
- 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.
- 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
- airey0
there's a million commercial themes that take very little to repurpose or use a developer to build from scratch using your design. really really affordable.
- FallowDeer0
I always thought the same and worried I wouldnt have the time to learn it but its really simple to do the easy stuff.
Some websites have different function so you may find yourself trying to hack around WP and working around its limitations
I also gave this pdf book a try http://rockablepress.com/books/r…
- Projectile0
thanks for all the advice!!!
yeah I really ought to try give it a quick go, but just haven't had 20 mins to spare to be honest. (fuck i havent even had time to watch this thread!!) Will try have a twiddle today during lunch. And yes I'll just drill it into her from the start that it will be limited to the template we use and I'll have to tell her a lot no "no can do" once it's built.
One more thing.. is it simple enough to embed flash elements?
...and is it simple to embed youtube/vimeo vids? (i imagine this being easier than flash)
- mrghost0
i heard she was a total slut
- spraycan0
be careful with comments here , they're always like : "ye go for it man", "ye everything is cool"
- noneck0
You could always do the site design and outsource the HTML slicing to some place that will also build a WP Template for you. Build in the cost into your fees.
- hmm it's a yoga studio, not a pharmaceutical company. I doubt she'll even pay in money.Projectile
- but that's ok, I've always accepted magic mushrooms as payment.
(kidding about the first bit :P)Projectile