You are talking about two (2) very different issues, and without familiarity with WP.
As for CMS. WordPress can do that, and there is no need to re-invent the wheel… But it takes work and there is no “one-file” solution. You just ahve to setup WP and the template files in your theme to do what you want. (It’s possible, I have done it!)
As for “a cms site that fills the whole screen`…
That’s a design issue. You can have a theme that is one inch wide or full-screen wide, cms or not 🙂
Thanks for your reply
Yes I know there where two issues in there…;-)
Anyhow for re-inventing the wheel: I have set WP up as CMS already, AND I’ve been looking at systems like PHP Fusion and Typo3 and everytime I have returned to WP mainly because it is CMS light, it has such nice inbuilt editorial tools, and with the right plugins my non-tech clints (I am a freelance webdesigner) are able to maintain sites with ease. Is there any other free application that allows for the same? I haven’t been able to find one – that is why I am “re-inventing the wheel” if U like. (see also a debate I have started at http://www.php-fusion.co.uk/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=49&thread_id=12254 )
Anyway U say that there is no way to include the coding in e.g. “sidebar.php” in “page.php” etc.? Is that correct?
Also, I would love to see what U have done in terms of alteration and with regard to WP themes (U mention in your reply)
Actually, you can re-assemble the template files: meaning instead of having
header.php
index.php
sidebar.php
footer.php
you CAN have them put together in ONE index.php file. (What happened in the theme sytem – they “sliced” the original index file in pieces – see the link.)
As for other scripts – it depends what exactly your clients need. Sometimes for simple websites I offer sNews to my clients.
You can find screen-wide themes, too, at
http://themes.wordpress.net
For my stuff go to http://www.transycan.net/portfolio/
Tanx for the reply – may come back to this thread after I have looked at your links
Fantastic: your Indie Retailer and Shakespeare Oxford Society themes!!! Have U by any chance uploaded these at themes.wordpress.net or elsewhere (for download and use)?
Thanks!
No, they were made for those clients and I cannot release them for public.
But the Indie site was based on the Vesuvius theme which you can download from my site and feel free to tweak it as you like 🙂
Thanx a lot, one question though, after tweaking it can I use it for comercial purposes also?
And can I get U to post a link to theme in question here?
Since it has been released under GPL – you can do whatever you want with it, provided you keep the source code available.
On my portfolio page in the right sidebar there are links for downloadable themes.
Ups didn’t see that – thank U, great
Another thing I have been wondering about – maybe it should have its own thread, but U seem to be an experienced tweaker so I’ll post it here: is it possible a folding menu (maybe a javascript-thing) with respect to “pages” – so that sub/child pages are not shown before the parent is clicked?
LOL yeah! I’m short cutting after having been through endless forums for different applications
By the way if U want to view my site it is at http://www.typezero.dk and completely non-CMS
To moshu:
I’ve installed the Fold Page Menus-plugin and it works fine – except I moved the page menu (this bit: <?php wp_list_pages(fold_page_menus().’title_li=<h2>Pages’); ?></h2> ) from the sidebar to the leftbar.php in your Vesuvius theme, and now the folding menu no longer works, i.e. links to subpages are visible all the time. Any idea why?
Thanx
Correction: Fold Page Menus-plugin works fine with the default theme, but not with the Vesuvius theme….wonder why
