How easy is Wordpress?
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- 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'
- forcetwelve0
this helped me when i began to make my own themes for CMS sites for clients.
- AntiLabs0
it's easy.
- lukus_W0
As easy as writing a book.
- detritus0
If you want a blog-like site, then yes, it's very easy.
If it's something more to your specification (ie. a typical CMS site), then no - uit's not 'very easy', it takes a bit of fiddling.
Not saying it's hard, like. Just fiddly.
- flux40
If you have some knowledge of HTML and CSS then, yes, you'll find it relatively easy.
This book has a lot of flaws and useless information about design trends, but as a speedy introduction to Wordpress theme design I recommend it - https://www.packtpub.com/wordpre…
Replacing images in a pre existing Wordpress theme / template can prove limiting very quickly.
- spraycan0
to embed stuff in wp is not as easy as in a webpage you must first be a bit familiarized with wp
- TheBlueOne0
If you;re going to build a site and just have a blog on the side why not use Tumblr for it? Or you could use a much more lightweight blogscript like sNews ( http://snewscms.com/ ) for the blog section. Wordpress seem like overkill (and a bunch of frontend design headaches) if it's only going to be used for an independent blog section.
- inteliboy0
^ Tumblr can be just as 'fiddly' as Wordpress imo if customising a basic blog template.
If you can find a theme you really like, and just need to change out the logo/banner and some link colours - then Wordpress is super easy.
Having some basic WP knowledge is good to have in your arsenal anyway.
- I suppose. I just find Tumblr far easier than WP to theme for. But it does have its foibles as well.TheBlueOne
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- BattleAxe0
so easy Douchbags are deploying it and calling themselves Web Developers
- acescence0
the docs on wordpress are pretty good, just read through them all and you should be good to go. I don't bother hacking away at themes, which I often find confusing as you need to wade through a bunch of html and css that has nothing to do with wp functionality. I just start by creating static html pages and pasting the necessary code in the appropriate places.
- This is my general approach too, and it's been working for years for the most part.nocomply
- BattleAxe0
it's being used at High Schools by journalism classes easy