Title: WordPress Capabilities
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress Capabilities

 *  [keenpix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keenpix/)
 * (@keenpix)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-capabilities-1/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keenpix/)
 * (@keenpix)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-capabilities-1/#post-582315)
 * Does no one understand my questions?
 *  [markmichon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markmichon/)
 * (@markmichon)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-capabilities-1/#post-582318)
 * WordPress now offers a special type of post called a page.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages)
 * Also check out [http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keenpix/)
 * (@keenpix)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-capabilities-1/#post-582320)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-capabilities-1/#post-582322)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keenpix/)
 * (@keenpix)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-capabilities-1/#post-582323)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markmichon/)
 * (@markmichon)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-capabilities-1/#post-582330)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-capabilities-1/#post-582331)
 * Yeah, but since the theme system came in… WP seems to be very picky about fake
   subdomains and redirects 🙁

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