No dates for news format

  • johnos

    (@johnos)


    18 years, 7 months ago

    I have a very general question, as I am considering adopting WordPress for a journalism/online journalism class.
    WP appeals to me by virtue of its (apparent) simplicity, because I am not a developer or a coder. The one drawback I see is that each story is timestamped, and that they are published in last-first sequence. I’m also unsure of how categories are organized. This is the same reasoning for my rejecting MovableType.
    I am tending towards something like php-nuke or typo3, i.e. a content management system rather than a blogging platform, because it appears to me that these may be more configurable to get away from the standard blog style, even though I also want to incorporate a blog in the content offering.
    I’m not looking to do anything terribly ambitious with media, but I would like close control over layout as well as strong editorial management.
    It seems difficult to make a rational decision based solely on feature lists and so I’d be most grateful for any insights or comments you may have that might short-circuit my research.

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  • skippy

    (@skippy)

    18 years, 7 months ago

    Posts are internally timestamped, and this timestamp is often displayed to visitors because WordPress is, first, a blog package. Blogs have a chronological organization to the posted content.

    But you can tweak WordPress in a lot of very specific ways. You don’t need to arrange posts by date. Some arrange posts alphabetically, for example.

    You are encouraged to review the documentation available at The WordPress Codex. There you can learn about The_Loop, The_Loop_In_Action, Templates and Category_Templates, and a whole lot more. All of this information has been written specifically to enable you to make WordPress do what YOU want it to do.

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