thomas_barteler

Hi,

Thank you very much for your answers!

to give you some examples, search for cms templates, magazine templates or newpaper templates. that’ll give you a good way to start, but wordpress is really flexible in how it displays the post contents.

I did using the WordPress showcase and unfortunately I didn’t find an example in which the design of an individual post or page is more complex. They all follow the “normal” structure, where the sidebar displays the newest or related posts for example. But the actual content of one article is always very simple.

Any template can be widgetized – allowing users to add content to any page using drag’n’drop widgets. Templates can also be created that pull content in from different resources within the WP system. Finally, you can build theme-specific functions that do just about anything.

Maybe I didn’t find the option in the user interface, but aren’t the widgets something “global” which you define once for the blog?

It would be great if you could point me in some direction how to implement the following:

The content area should be divided in 2 columns. In the left column, the normal article text is shown. In the right column, I want to display an image, which the author who creates the article should choose, as well as some additional information like prices which only belong to this specific article.

The author enters the article text in the content box in the admin UI. But where to enter the price information? Where to put the image? The only thing I could imagine now is to:

– Learn the author to use HTML and insert 2 floating DIVs for the columns using the HTML editor.

– Use meta fields for all of the things which should appear on the right side.

In Typo3 for example, the admin UI would know that there is a right column and a left column and the author could simply say, “OK, now add a text element to the right column”, or an image and so on.

I understand that WP is not a classic CMS, but I really like it because it’s so easy to use and offers most of the needed functionality.

Thank you very much for your help, it is really appreciated!

I think the purpose of most of the updates is to stay the most-downloaded plugin… If you look at the SVN repository you will see that there are new versions for only one new link in the backend, one version for a changed donation form, one for even only a php comment which doesn’t have any affect on how the plugin works or what it does.

I’m also using the plugin since a long time, but decided to update every few months only. I like it very much, but releasing new versions for only incrementing the number of downloads is really annoying.

There should be a changelog which is displayed in the WP admin area, so you can decide if it is worth the update.

– Thomas