WordPress makes DreamWeaver look like baby talk!!

  • Hi All, I’m interested in getting a blog going, and I’ve spent days trying to find the answer to my questions, with no luck…so I’m hoping you’ll have patience with a newbie!

    I have novice experience using DreamWeaver for websites. What I’m trying to resolve in my head is if I set up a new website, how does the WordPress blog work with it? DreamWeaver will have all my directory and will do my ftp’ing…can it do this for the WordPress too, or is the xhtml a foreign language to DreamWeaver?

    So, do I install my new website, and then install the WordPress blog separately, but use a filename extension like https://www.domain.com/blog ?? Then link it on my website?

    Oh, and the theme. I understand that it is a “skin”, but does it install pretty easily into the WordPress?

    One last question, please…once I get the blog up and running, will the admin panel pretty much be a WYSIWYG? I’m not a coder, by any means…

    Thanks very much for your help.

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  • Hi Justducky2,

    Install your website then do as you mentioned in your post… _install wordpress seperately in a folder called https://www.yourdomain.com/blog.)

    Yes the theme is a skin that integrates with WordPress via the presentation panel in the admin section of WordPress. Its all very seamless so just use whatever skin that will best fit your websites overall look. Once you feel confident enough, then you can perhaps design your own theme.

    Yes to your last question too.

    WordPress is a farly easy blog software to get your head around once you play about with it for a while. One more tip. Make sure you get some decent Spam plugins like Spam Karma etc and place them in your plugins directory. You will have to activate them via the plugins section of the admin. You dont want to end up getting your blog spammed to death.

    You will find a very good selection of plugins here:

    https://wp-plugins.net/

    Here is a list of a few plugins that I would suggest you actually have running:

    Spam Karma 2 – Moderate Authors – Role Manager – Email Shroud – Login Logger – Hardened Trackback – Google Analytics – Contact Form – wp-phpmyadmin

    There are so many to choose from so just read about the plugin and see if its what you want. They are easy to install, just follow the instructions and activate them.

    Hope this helps you. All the best.

    if you want real WUSIWYG blogging then i would suggest using windows live writer as your blogging software. I know, its windows, but actually rather good and free and fully working with wordpress. I personally hardly every go to my wordpress admin panel now.

    You can see my review at https://appaholic.wordpress.com/2007/05/25/windows-live-writer/

    Thread Starter justducky2

    (@justducky2)

    Thanks very much gazeuk and relequestual! I appreciate your feedback and will give it a go.

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