WordPress Rookie – Advice on installation/maintenance

  • briscoe14

    (@briscoe14)


    15 years ago

    Hi all,

    I’m just tech savvy enough to know WordPress (.org, not .com) is where I’d like to relocate my existing website, but nowhere near savvy enough to do it myself. We’ve got a simple site of about ten pages and are looking to add a few more, including a portfolio and a blog. All the research I’ve done points to WordPress being the perfect fit. Problem is I 1) have zero programming skills, 2) hope to avoid paying for a big install project and ongoing maintenance. I run a communications firm and need three people of similar skill to easily add blog posts. My questions are:

    1) My existing site is built in iWeb; how difficult is it going to be a for someone to rebuild the site for me?
    2) If I move forward with the migration, will my colleagues and I be able to post blogs without knowing our way around HTML (beyond the very, very basics: bold, line breaks, etc.). We’re looking to launch a daily blog and need to be able to do it ourselves.

    I know WordPress.com is the de facto solution for folks like me, but for all the obvious reasons, I’d like to avoid going that route. What are my options?

    Any and all advice is greatly appreciated!

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  • Roy

    (@gangleri)

    15 years ago

    You could just at a WP blog to the existing website. Just add a folder “blog”, install WP in it and make a link to it from the existing website and vice versa. Once WP is running and you have a “theme” of your liking, the only thing you have to do is type posts and WP handles the rest (makeup, ordering, etc.). Only when you have ‘special needs’ you’ll need to “tweak” WP (i.e. edit PHP files).

    As for maintenance, you’ll need to keep WP up-to-date and sometimes that means an upgrade twice a month and then a couple of months of nothing. Since 2.7 upgrading is a one-click thing (if all goes as planned).

    Thread Starter briscoe14

    (@briscoe14)

    15 years ago

    Thanks for the advice, Gangleri. I appreciate the idea and will look into that option.

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