I may be missing something, but I think wordpress already does everything you want out of the box.
the dynamically generated indexes you speak of, are nothing more than archive pages – on which you can choose what information is available.
every wordpress “view” (I’ll call it a view, to differentiate between pages) can be output in any way you like, either as a full post, which you’re accustomed to, or any part thereof.
So it’s insanely easy to make lists of your content sorted in any way you like, and filtered in any way you want. Moreover
if you’ve looked at even the default theme, you’ll notice that the main content appears before any sidebar garbage, so your source-ordered stuff is as you like it.
I’m just not sure what exactly you want ‘handled’.
I would never suggest that someone as serious about their web project as yourself should pick an off-the-shelf theme and stick to it, so beyond the basic framework of what’s offered by wordpress, I’d suggest you get your hands dirty customising any theme you start off with, to your own liking.
That’s often as simple as cutting and pasting some stuff around.
Thanks, Ivovic. You have confirmed what I thought was possible.
I guess in the back of my mind is the question of whether WordPress is the best or simplest way to go, since I’m basically not using the blog features only static pages.
I was attracted to ModX for its versatility, but I’m not a programmer and in addition its still in beta and there has been no recent update.
Yes, I will adapt a theme… I just didn’t know that the default theme was source-ordered. I just hadn’t checked it.
Thanks again.
Peter
Actually now I’ve checked… the default theme is not source-ordered, as header information comes before the main content. Yes, the sidebar stuff follows later. Source ordered html code is described as 2-1-3, main content, header, footer and others.
Amazing Grace, Bytes for All and October Pink themes come close to being source-ordered.
so just make it strictly source ordered if you want, though that seems to negate the point of putting your blog title in H1 tags.
I don’t see your point… make your theme do what you want it to.
there’s no rule that says you have to have any content in the header… but you damned well need to have the <head></head> section in there before your content 😛
I see so many people with OCD about SEO and other TLAs, but their content is absolute dog shit… I’ll tell you what trumps source-ordered code in themes, and that’s great content.
