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1. jacobbrett
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hey, I started work on a new website (yeh, its kinda messy atm) a few days ago and I have no experience with CMS. It is a website for local bands and needs a functioning news section, tour section, downloads section and forums.

   The news section will just be a div that displays the latest x posts, and I want an news archive page that can be browsed through. I guess this can also be achieved with phpMyAdmin, but WordPress would be easier.
   The download section will basically host free EPs etc.. is there a plugin for WordPress that would support this type of page and syndicate it etc.?
   I know I can create the tour section with XAMPP and phpMyAdmin, though I would prefer a CMS that integrates all of these features (excepting the forum I suppose).

   Assuming I can accomplish all this with WordPress (most importantly downloads and news..the others could be accomplished externally), how difficult would it be to adapt my existing website (at the moment just the index page)? Otherwise, could someone please recommend me another CMS or other solution please?

   Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   You might consider using WordPress to manage your whole web-site. WordPress has Categories and Tags that allow you to dynamically segment your blog into logical sections.

   WordPress automatically provides you syndication/feed capability.

   There are WordPress plugins that help you manage downloads:
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-downloadmanager/

   I'd recommend installing WordPress and playing around with the category and tagging structures to see if they fit your needs.

   Resources:
   WordPress_Semantics
   Introduction_to_Blogging

3. jacobbrett
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks so much! I'm messing with it now..

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