I plan to use WP as a CMS - Joomla and Drupal are too much for me.
I am trying to find an appropriate theme.
Since I run other OpenSource software such as forums and photogallery as well, I've placed different software in a top menu.
In WP I'd like to use pages, with their hierarchical structure for my site. Since I already have a top menu, I'd like the theme to have a left menu...
Unfortunately, it seems pretty hard to find a good theme with pages in the left menu. Please can someone help?
Posted 1 year ago #
WordPress 3.0 has a new feature: custom menus, which enable anyone to create menus with links to pages, categories, tags and custom links. You can easily insert it into your sidebar with a pre-installed widget.
Read about menus here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Navigation_Menus
A good theme to start with would be the default one, 2010: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/twentyten
Hope this helps!
Great! Thanks! I will try it out
Posted 1 year ago #
Make sure you make a child theme of the default Twenty Ten theme!
Or all your customizations will be overwritten with the next WP upgrade.
Thanks dragonsjaw
Posted 1 year ago #
Echo that, child themes are the way to go with 2010.
Child themes seem great, especially if one only desires to modify colors, placement etc a bit...essentially if one wishes to modify the stylesheet...
However, I was disappointed to see that 2010 doesn't even support moving the sidebar to left from right...while this can be easily fixes by editing a template file, that sort of nullifies the purpose of child theme i.e. not breaking things when theme is updated...
The default theme for WordPress should be powerful, with a lot of options in admin panel, so that a lot of people can customize it easily....things like - 1/2/3 column, top/left/bottom/right sidebar, some color packs, should be part of the theme. The header and blog name should be in a top "sidebar" and copyright info should be in a bottom "sidebar". There should be 2 types of top/bottom sidebard - full width and main content area width....
Am I ranting? Sorry about that! Thanks David and Dragonsjaw for your help.
Posted 12 months ago #
A lot of what you talk about, sooskriszta, is coming in the new Twenty Eleven theme, to be released with WordPress 3.2. You can download the beta version and play with it on a test install and see.
And if you really want to adjust the sidebar location in Twenty Ten without CSS, just:
WordPress will look to your child theme for templates before your parent theme, overriding Twenty Ten.
Make sense?
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