WordPress Capabilities

  • keenpix

    (@keenpix)


    18 years, 12 months ago

    It’s been a while since I’ve used WordPress so please excuse me if my questions seem silly!

    I’m in the process of setting up my web and graphic design portfolio. I would like to use WordPress to maintain the entire site because I’m thinking that would be the easiest for updates, etc. First half of my question – is this a good idea? What are the pros and cons of using WordPress for everything instead of just hand-coding the pages and placing them on my webspace, separate from the blog?

    The second part of my question is that I want to confirm I can achieve with WordPress what I’m envisioning. I’ll have an index page which will actually be the portfolio of thumbnails, a contact page, and the blog. I know I can set up the contact form using a WordPress page and the blog section will run normally using WordPress. Can I set up the index as a separate “work” category that would display the excerpt in the form of a thumbnail that would then link to the full post with a larger image and the associated text? And will I be able to style and format this category differently the normal blog categories/posts?

    I hope this all makes sense…thanks for any help you can provide.

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  • Thread Starter keenpix

    (@keenpix)

    18 years, 12 months ago

    Does no one understand my questions?

    markmichon

    (@markmichon)

    18 years, 12 months ago

    WordPress now offers a special type of post called a page.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

    Also check out http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags for your questions regarding the different category formatting.

    It’s very doable. in theory you could have your index set to just show the portfolio category, and have another page set up to loop posts from your blog category. I’d set up a test blog first to get a handle on how some of the new features work, but just read through the codex a bit and it should all make sense.

    Thread Starter keenpix

    (@keenpix)

    18 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Mark, thanks for responding to my questions.

    The only way I’ll get a handle on things is to just jump in and play around a bit.

    Just to clarify, I can set up my main blog at blog.mydomain.com for instance and still have posts from the “portfolio” category (as well as a list of my latest blog posts) appear on the index at mydomain.com?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 12 months ago

    Hmm…
    You said above you want WP to handle the whole site. In that case it will be installed in the root: example com.
    Your portfolio “category” can NOT be in a subdomain like blog.example.com
    It should be example.com/category/portfolio – as default.

    Thread Starter keenpix

    (@keenpix)

    18 years, 12 months ago

    Hi Moshu,
    Thanks for pointing that out. I was hoping to keep my main blog separated in its own subdomain or subcategory, but apparently that’s not possible?

    I suppose the index would be a static page but would display loops for the portfolio category as well as my main blog posts.

    markmichon

    (@markmichon)

    18 years, 12 months ago

    Well you could keep things like domain.com/portfolio, domain.com/blog, etc. I’m sure with a bit of research and manual htaccess redirecting you could turn those into fake subdomains. I know it used to be done to some extent before templates came into play.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 12 months ago

    Yeah, but since the theme system came in… WP seems to be very picky about fake subdomains and redirects 🙁

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