Questions about the possibility of customizing WordPress

  • AndreaNobili84

    (@andreanobili84)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hello to everybody,

    I am very new in WordPress world, before now I always used CMS as Joomla that have a pretty different loguc from WP.

    Now, I have to implement a website\blog using WP

    I would like to know if it is possible to create a blog similar to this site: http://viralpatel.net/blogs/

    I explain in detail what are the features of this site that I am interested to know whether or not they are reproducible using WP:

    1) A complex graphic theme, divided into various columns

    2) Ability to view the articles on the homepage in a similar manner to that of the linked site: that displays a brief introduction of each article and clicking on it above leads to the full article

    I have not understand if in WP I can install some existing modules that display articles in home page in the desidered way or if I have to impement this feautures by myself writing some php code

    Tnx
    Andrea

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  • asarosenberg

    (@dotnordic)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Yes it is possible to make a site like that with WordPress. There are many different themes you can purchase. If you search you might find one that looks similar. If you have very specific ideas you will need to hire a programmer or do it yourself.

    Thread Starter AndreaNobili84

    (@andreanobili84)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Ok,
    but what I want to know is about how to show my article preview in homepage.

    Using Joomla I simply install a module that I assign to a specific zone of my template and this module do all work (I have not to write code)

    I understand that using WP this is not true and that I can’t assign modules to the main area of the template (where the articles are shown) and that I have to implement this visualization logic.

    is it true?

    asarosenberg

    (@dotnordic)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    You can do it in several ways. For example you can do it with widgets. Then you would manually fill out widgetized areas on the frontpage. Then you need a theme that has a widgetized frontpage. Widgets can be simple pieces of text but they can also have a lot of functionality similar to Joomla modules. You can also do it with specific category or tag logic that decides which posts to show where. Then you need a theme with that functionality.

    Whether it’s possible or not depends on whether you can find a theme that does what you want it to do.

    asarosenberg

    (@dotnordic)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    WordPress has an excerpt function so if you find a theme that uses excerpts instead of full posts on the frontpage you would be close to finding what you need?

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