I’m new to the world of WP. I went over quite a few tutorials and have got the basics covered. Currently I’m using a static page as my website’s front page.

In that I would want the ability to let the Admin change the logo of the website without having to open up the header.php file and change the source of the image file.

Is there a way I can make that happen within the Admin section itself?

PS: I figured out how to create Widget areas in my page. The thing I can’t figure out is how to have a Widget that just has an image in it.

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I am planning to create a website that covers racing sports (cars, horses, whatever) using WordPress.
The website would involve different categories that should be linked together in a professional way, those categories include (among other things) racing news, results, videos, photos, upcoming fixtures ..etc

I want to be able to provide linked content of a racing day for example. Say a major race took place and I am to publish a news article that is separate from a photos article or videos or complete results. The user should be able to navigate through those categories of the same event back and forth with known simple ways.

My questions are, is there an automatic or semi-automatic sorting way to do this in WordPress? Is there a functionality in WordPress itself (or themes, plugins, ..etc) that would allow me to publish news , videos, photos easily to their corresponding linked categories with a reasonably friendly CMS interface??

I have used WordPress before for a small blog that didn’t involve with more than news articles, and I wasn’t able to link content in the way I described above, which, if I may elaborate, is similar to what is being used in many football results sites. You have the game news article and you can see photos in the photos section FOR THAT GAME as well as full results or statistics in another section for the same game.

I was only able to publish photos in a separate page, videos in a separate page and news articles in separate posts naturally, and updating separately was a bit hectic.

I have good knowledge of programming in general and fair knowledge of php.

Thank you

This question, I’m sure, has been asked before. But perhaps not from the viewpoint that I am bringing to the table.
I am a fully blind web developer. I tend to work with frameworks like Laravel, Bootstrap, all sorts of stuff to get web applications out the door. Now for my own personal website, I don’t really want to do that. I want to quickly knock sout something that looks at least semi-professional. It will mainly be a static website with a blog page as a subsection (so that won’t be showing on the home page). Now the question of course is, what theme would fit these criteria? I have been googling and reading theme descriptions. Most of what I read pertains to themes that would work well on a blog, but as I said this is not my main focus.
Custom widgets like a list of twitter tweets or facebook statuses are fine, I might add that to the front page. Adding sections to the main content area would also be very welcome.
But I am sort of lost in all the options now. What is nice to look at in 2014? Is parallax still cool or has it gotten the ‘too fancy’ treatment yet? For obvious reasons I can’t really judge that.
I briefly looked at the Divi Elegant Theme but it appears their control panel is slightly inaccessible (in this context meaning, hard to use with a screenreader). Their page builder is, since it is drag-and-drop, of course completely unusable so I quickly stepped off that option.
Does anyone have a suggestion that might work for me?
To specify slightly, the website will mainly be about the things I tend to specialize in : composing/producing all kinds of music, programming (mainly web development), translation and the learning of languages, teaching others etc.
The blog would mainly be stuff I figure out or find interesting, while the rest of the website might offer samples of my work, tutorials for others to learn from, perhaps rates for services I can provide etc.

I hope all this info can get someone further along than I am right now. Thanks a billion in advance.

Zersiax

I just basically would like to be able to have each page have a different sort of design to manage the content. Some pages may have a lot of text, and some pages may have images off to the side and such.

In this connection, I’d like to ask a couple of questions of the more experienced users here (which is probably everyone but me). I’m not a real webdesigner myself, from 1998 till now I’ve made just a couple of sites and done a couple of PHP or other coding projects as an amateur that grew up with QBASIC on a 286. Nothing fancy. I don’t have the knowledge of someone who really sits inside it, knows the trends, good practices and recommendations and the reasons for them. Which is the knowledge I’m seeking here.

So, I would normally be inclined to go with pages and write directly on them, perhaps inserting arbitrary code to align stuff or add some CSS gadgetry (if actually). But then why not use posts if they have their functionalities, some of which could actually be used intelligently for my purposes, perhaps? I already know there are two schools of thought here and even an eclectic school but the articles I’ve found in Google so far aren’t really specific, hands-on enough to help me figure it out.

Overall, I’d just need to maintain a non-blogging overall impression, as in it’s okay if the website has blogging features in it but it has to be a decent company site/personal site of an independent professional (I’m not decided here yet, I don’t know if the “company we” or the “independent professional I” works better). Can’t look like a personal blog with a price list slapped on it. It’s gotta be as professional as a briefcase. It needs to make a banker or insurer or accountant think I’m serious enough to work with, so it can’t be too much of a “next generation” thing.

pros for posts:
+ everything comes in categories: there are offers for business clients, individuals, law firms, outsourcers etc., ToS has sections too;
+ particularly samples of textual work are by definition post material;
+ indexability/easy tree structure;
+ leaves room for a blog/news service if I really want one in the future;

cons against posts:
– sole pages being Main, Contact and About or something along those lines, that’s a miser of a menu bar;
– post/category-based structure has the potential to look like a duct tape solution adapted from a blog;
– potentially lacking in gravitas or professional solidity in the eyes of some recipients;
– can’t glue specific posts to specific pages;

pros for pages:
+ fills up the menu bar;
+ is a full page, not a buncha posts, more solid etc.;
+ more intuitive navigation for people not used to “social media”;
+ avoids any possible stigma overworked members of the bourgeoisie in “serious jobs” could associate with posts and postings;

cons against pages:
– a bit of a bother when it comes to adding the content, arranging or moving it etc.

But these are just my semi-educated guesses. I’m here to ask people who have more of a foundation to form opinions.

So, can I have any insights or tips?

Any specific plugins or widgets that come to your mind as necessary or useful here basing on your experience? I’ve already made a thread about themes in the theme section. Struggling with that choice too. The choice of theme will influence my choice of either posts or pages for layout, which is why I can’t really put the content in first and check later in theme previews.

Thanks for your time in advance, I appreciate it.

So, long story short I’m a former DYI self-taught notepad user moving to the first CMS (at least one I didn’t make in notepad). I’m frankly feeling like notepad is actually easier than figuring out the theme structure. Won’t be creating my own themes any time soon. But if I have the free time to learn the theme structure, I’ll be sure to create some stuff to share free of charge. But this is off-topic.

The topic is I need to put together a professional small business webbie to get me some clients as a mostly legal translator. Lawyers are fans of (company-paid, if possible) gadgets and websurfing from inside a traffic-jammed cab while billing the client for it. In short, it’s gotta work on that silly default handheld browser which fails to support background properties properly, among other things (which killed the ambitious Japanese-style design with transparency and round corners I kept trying to save until 7 a.m. today).

On the other hand, it’s gotta work on standard corporate handouts and hand-downs with sometimes outdated software and castrated settings. But it can’t be boring. It’s like a CV/resume: there isn’t that much you can do but you’ve got to do something to make yours stand out from 1000 others when the headhunter has 10 seconds to spare per piece. I’m frankly not nearly talented enough to achieve that with graphical files or gadgetry, so it’s gotta be a strong design. Among other things, a better design than I could eventually come up with after a night of trial and error, F5, caffeine and Google searching.

So I guess, to sum up, it’s gotta work on handhelds, degrade gracefully on old junk, but it does not need to look actually the same. My site is mostly a one-time sight. Once they’ve got my e-mail, they don’t need to come back unless they like my photo.

What I absolutely need is a contact page that doesn’t employ the visitor’s mail client. It’s gotta use PHP mail or something else server-side. I have my own HTML/PHP code for that, so it’s okay if I can just paste it in and it will work, worse if I’d need to dig for 2 nights to find it and alter 20 other things to enable it to work.

Summary:
– neat, hygienic, no loose ends, preferably no rough edges in design, doesn’t fall apart in a bad window size (handheld resolution or non-fullscreen window on a PC);
– reasonably forgiving learning curve and/but some potential to play with,
– non-gaudy, no aggressive sales pitch, preferably no basic colours that would be too tedious to replace,
– won’t fall apart even in the dumbest of handheld browsers, and will actually be inviting to a lawyer squeezed in a taxi between international calls on his mobile,
– and won’t fall apart on his assistant on intern’s aged PC,
– most important is static content, like what’s on offer, ToS, ego wall etc., I won’t be posting any news or diaries or such,
– free of charge or price includes VAT (too much paperwork otherwise),
– it can require plugins or hacks or widgets etc., just as long as I don’t need a maths degree to figure it out.

Please note I’m aware of the existence of theme directories that pop up in Google, I’ve already been there before coming here. I’m basically asking for recommendations from people who have actually played around a bit with specific, individual themes, especially used them for actual websites like this. This hands-on experience is irreplaceable.

Thank you in advance.

Also, I hope this is okay with the moderators in terms of staying on topic, but I’d also love to hear any other suggestions that come to your mind when reading this, not necessarily strictly limited to theme selection.