Can I Create A Completely Custom Page

  • freedomflyer

    (@freedomflyer)


    13 years, 9 months ago

    I want to understand if and how WordPress can mimic functionality such as GDGT.com – in that when I go to a certain page there is a completely customized look and feel for each gadget (in the above link’s case).
    I get a little concerned about diving deep into this platform when it seems simply so bloggy. I want to be able to harness the backend power of wordpress to display information in a format like gdgt.com

    I understand that WordPress can be used to mimic the above site’s functionality, but should it be?

    That is my first question.

    Secondly, and if I did go ahead and go with WordPress for something like this – what WordPress funcionatlity would you say gdgt is using when you click on a gadget and the URL is something like “http://gdgt.com/apple/imac/21-5-inch/mid-2011/” – is that like a custom taxonomy or custom category or what?

    Thanks!

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  • Pioneer Web Design

    (@swansonphotos)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    1) WordPress is designed to allow full use of HTML5 and CSS3. The sky is the limit when it comes to display.
    2) These would simply be parent and child categories and/or pages.
    http://gdgt.com/apple/
    http://gdgt.com/apple/imac/

    (Once you get more comfortable with WP, you will be able to look at the source code of sites and from that get a good idea what is going on)

    Because you can use HTML in a text widget (and style that also), a widget can be whatever you want it to be.

    Page Templates are quite useful to change how a category or page etc. display.

    Thread Starter freedomflyer

    (@freedomflyer)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    What, then, would be an example way of creating something similar to the gdgt.com example? There are probably quite a few ways to do this, but I’m thinking about some specifics:

    Would I still use the default WordPress WYSIWYG to add a ‘new gadget’ to the database? If so, each gadget has for example a ‘score’ that it is assigned, and the score has custom styling, etc…I understand that the content of the gadget is stored in the wp-posts table, but what about this other custom data (score, other meta info)

    Would each new ‘gadget’ that is featured be a post?

    michael.mariart

    (@michaelmariart)

    13 years, 9 months ago

    How you do this will depend on how good you are with HTMl & Css and also PHP.

    If you can use HTML and CSS then you can set up templates that you can use for each product. That will let you have whatever tyling you want, and you can use the standard WordPress editor interface to update the products.

    If you are good with PHP I’d strongly suggest looking into creating your own custom post types as this will allow you to have sections for products, and also allow you to set up different data that you want to have included for each product. It’s a bit of work to do properly, but if you know what you want to do, this is definately the way to do it.

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