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Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Coding custom themesJames, yeah I wasn’t even trying to write proper code for the example, I just wanted the point to get across that in the CMS we are using now, I can tell wordpress where I want the content to go, then I can move it around with CSS. In wordpress, I see five different files and almost no HTML or little chunks, and I don’t know where to start with the stylesheet, I don’t know how to add my own custom DIV’s in to create a layout.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Coding custom themesMrtom414: Those are exactly the types of documentation that confuse me. I understand how the file structure works in the themes folder, I don’t understand how to tell wordpress that I want a user where to be able to edit content, where my navigation is and how it works. I have read that document 500 times with the same results, I don’t understand how to code my own theme. I don’t know where to declare my content areas, I don’t know where to declare that my navigation bar should be underneath of my logo and that it should be a drop-down navigation.
Arty9k: That would be fine if I knew where all of those declarations were at and knew how to manipulate them. That’s the kind of advice I’m looking for. I don’t mean to take my frustration out on you guys, I am just frustrated in general at the fact that everyone says how easy wordpress is and how simple it is to get started using it as a CMS (I don’t want blogging at all, and if I do use blogging aspect I want it to act as a news column not a blog), but when it comes to making wordpress look and react how I want it, I don’t know where to start with that, so yeah, I would use another theme, but I need to know how that theme works in order to make it do what I want it to do.