Might just go back to Dreamweaver….

  • Any suggestions?

    I have always handcoded my sites. I was told to learn WP, that it is so much faster at building websites, BUT…… after playing with it for a few weeks, and running through many tutorials, it seems that it is created more for BLOG sites.

    I don’t run into the need for blogs, etc with business sites. I just want normal static sites, and use Jquery, php, etc, therefore DW seems to be my best option.

    I would like WP if I could just have normal pages, without blogs, categories, authors, blah, blah, blah,etc. Can I do this? Can I just create normal static pages for EACH PAGE? I would like to use WP as there are so many plugins, But CAN NOT FIGURE OUT if I can just build normal stastic (maybe templates) pages. Am I missing something?

    PLEASE HELP! Thanks, Buffmin
    I don’t want to build blog sites!

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  • I’ve used WordPress to create far more “standard” sites than I have blogs. At the end of the day, WordPress is just the tool. It’s how you use it that counts. Perhaps you need to start looking at:
    Theme Development
    Custom Page Templates

    Thread Starter Buffmin2

    (@buffmin2)

    Thanks esmi. I see you a lot in the forum, so I know that you know your stuff.

    My biggest frustration is that mess with posts, categories, authors, etc! I have been trying to understand the structure of Twentyten really well, as I understand that I can use it as a basis for all of my WP sites (rather that buying premium themes, in which I would have to understand each one’s structure), so I have been trying to tear it apart and understand the purpose of each php file. I am comfortable with html,css, etc, so I think I can customise WP, but every tutorial just focuses on (as I said), posts, categories, authors, etc.

    My biggest dilemna is that it seems that can only build 1 page template and can select to use it for the home page if want, and the rest are blog pages, BUT I am thinking that I need to build a custom template for each page (I think) Am I wrong?

    It seems that every WP tutorial I find seems to think I am building a blogging site. I respect your opinion.

    I will read your link, but could you please answer my question above that asks “Do I need to, or can I even create custom templates for each page? Is that the starting point? Thank you very much, Buffmin

    Thread Starter Buffmin2

    (@buffmin2)

    It seems that your link may answer my questions. Thank you.

    If you’re looking for a base theme which you can use to develop custom child themes, I’d recommend https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/toolbox

    You can do a lot with just CSS. If you;re looking for something that has a lot of pre-existing features that you can use to customise various sites, have a look at https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/suffusion

    I prefer the former myself but fully appreciate that not everyone wants to get into template editing immediately. However, if you’re building Page-based sites, you can pretty much ignore everything but Page templates initially – which should ease you into the whole theme templating system.

    Thread Starter Buffmin2

    (@buffmin2)

    Esmi.
    Awesome! Thank you very much for that info. I will move forward then with WP. I knew inside, that it was the way to go, but kept getting so sucked into how to create blogging sites. Thank you again. Buffmin

    No problem. If you hit any bumps along the way, you know where we are. ??

    Thread Starter Buffmin2

    (@buffmin2)

    Thank you. You have probably not heard the last of me.

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