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    WordPress help

    So, I have a client who wants a wordpress site. I've cruised through the forum and found some older threads on using wordpress as a full cms site, but I'm curious about the difficulty level.

    Those of you who have messed around with WP, did you find adding the pugins and such difficult? Would it be easier to design a site around WP and then just incorp. it into the design? I'm sort of lost with this and need some info I guess?

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    The easiest way to learn it is to take a basic free template that you like and strip it down and style it how you want it. When you get the hang of the style and loop you'll find it's easy enough to build them from scratch.

    What sort of site is it? Will it use a blog or is it just for the CMS value of wordpress?

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    It's definitely going to use a blog, but they want a home page style, a games and quizzes page, etc...but the CMS function of WP will work great for this. IF I can figure out how to put it together. Eeek.
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    I used WPDesigner So you want to create WordPress themes huh?. Didn't take long and gave me a good understanding of the nuts-and-bolts.
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    likethegoddess's link is really good. I went completely through that series. Took me a couple of days but afterwards I created my own theme.
    Try these:
    Graphic Design Blog Wordpress as a CMS - Content Management System
    Blaze New Media Five Wordpress “CMS Enabling” Plugins
    and a plugin that I found useful, chose the homepage and what to call the blog and have all your blog posts be under /blog/ in the url, even when there's no /blog/ directory!
    Il Filosofo Filosofo Home-Page Control

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    The latest version of wordpress lets you install a plugin with a few clicks, prior versions required you to upload them.

    It took me a few days to understand how it works, but now I'm a convert. Just jump right in, its the best way to learn.

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    wordpress is cake once your in it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SidekickWD View Post
    So, I have a client who wants a wordpress site. I've cruised through the forum and found some older threads on using wordpress as a full cms site, but I'm curious about the difficulty level.

    Those of you who have messed around with WP, did you find adding the pugins and such difficult? Would it be easier to design a site around WP and then just incorp. it into the design? I'm sort of lost with this and need some info I guess?

    heeeelp.
    Wordpress works really well once u get the hang of it.

    plugins are a breeze to add and they have some really fancy ones out there...

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    So I started to mess with it quite a bit over the past couple of days, and so far it seems pretty straight forward! I've downlaoded tempaltes for other customers and then revamped them to suit his/her needs before, this seems to be the same process. Handle the css and your all good.

    And the plugins are rockin! That right there will make my job so much easier! Yay! Starting to luv on the WordPress.....
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