Will updates effect my templates?

  • Resolved Anonymous User 65643

    (@anonymized-65643)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    Hi!

    This is my first post and I have some general questions about what features I should choose when using wordpress.

    I’m loading it up onto yahoo shortly and I wondered if I should be choosing automatic wordpress updates or manual?

    I plan on tweeking the templates and the CSS to pretty it up and, add bells and whistles etc… (I guess) I’ll be using the default theme as a starting place.

    Will the updates affect my changes? I’m wondering if it wouldn’t be better to do it manually so I have more control?

    Also is it better to start with the default theme for purposes of customization?

    I’m hoping to get something up that has a similar function as this wordpress blog:
    http://update.estrategy.ubc.ca/

    B.T.W. I found a new book that seems useful. It covers WordPress, creating a blog from scratch and and setting up a testing environment on your computer:

    Blog Design Solutions, by Andy Budd. Friends of Ed. 2006

    cheers!

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  • fruitfly

    (@fruitfly)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve never done anything with automatic updates, but I wouldn’t recommend it myself, especially if you’re going to use a lot of plugins. With every major release, and some smaller ones, many plugins get broken. If you use automatic updates, you’re likely to give yourself some major headaches.

    There aren’t very many people who would recommend tweaking the default theme. It’s notoriously hard to tweak for a number of reasons. I would recommend finding one of the other hundreds (or thousands) of themes out there and working from that. You can probably find one even closer to what you’re trying to ultimately achieve.

    And just a friendly note here – please don’t take offense – but it’s bad form to post the same request for info twice, much less bump the last one. I’m hoping your post is an actual request for info, and in good faith that’s why I’m answering. Your inclusion of a link to an “estrategy” website and a plug for a book smells a lot like spam, which is likely why you didn’t get an answer on your previous “first post”.

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 65643

    (@anonymized-65643)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Whoops sorry! I’m embarrassed.

    Not spamming at all.
    E-strategy website is just a newsletter for university students, with some articles about elearning and education. They used wordpress with some plug-ins to make an ezine format. They had an article in it about how to they tooled wordpress into an ezine by using a loop and a query to make issues which inspired me to check out wordpress. I only put that there as an example of what I wanted to achieve format/design-wise and I was hoping to get a good start to it with advice about which theme would be good as a starting point.

    yes, I just wanted info I’m with my first webhosting and blog and just (a little) nervous.

    Thanks for your input! 🙂

    fruitfly

    (@fruitfly)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    No worries then. 🙂 You sounded sincere, that’s why I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Just remember when you ask something around here that we’re all volunteers and sometimes it takes a while to get an answer, and we’ll all get along fine. 😉

    Their design does look to be based on the default theme actually, so if that’s the look you’re going for, it will work for you eventually. It’s just that so many people seem to have problems with editing it… it’s a great theme, no doubt.

    But there are soooo many others out there, it’s always a good idea to poke around. You might find something you like even more. 🙂

    http://themes.wordpress.net/
    http://webdesignbook.net/themes/
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/65125?replies=5

    There’s lots out there!

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    And as for the question in the title of this thread: no, usually upgrades do not affect your templates (if you meant the template files in your theme).

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