Help with Theme Customization

  • Darth

    (@darthtraders)


    13 years, 1 month ago

    Hello There,

    I apologize in advance if there is an answer to my questions somewhere else. I have read so many forums and articles on the subject that I literally can’t see straight anymore!

    I have been selling on eBay for a few years now, and have been trying to expand into my own website for about a year now. The problem is, NONE of the most popular CMS/Shopping cart programs are easy, at all, for non-tech types, such as myself. WordPress is by far the closest to easy I have tried though.

    I simply do not have time to find merchandise, list it for sale, learn CSS/php/html, build websites, maintain them and populate them with content to drive traffic all at the same time. So, as a consequence, the site has never fully been implemented.

    This is the result of my best effort, even having spent $50 or so for the custom theme template then tweaking it a bit:

    http://www.darthtraders.com

    I have been trying to use this guide for creating “child themes”, but, it is above my head, technically.

    My ultimate plan is for darthtraders.com to be my “corporate” site where clients visit to learn about my re-selling services. For end Buyers/customers I plan to have 2 sites: 1 to serve as a content/blog/interest site and another site to serve as my e-commerce portal.

    What I need primarily is help with getting the initial site development. I am perfectly fine with some of the free themes I have come across. They just need some minor tweaking, such as adding my pictures/logos in the header, and minor color adjustments to suit my needs.

    I am constrained by a limited budget and am a one man operation. I was wondering if you guys could either direct me to a WYSIWYG editor that would allow me to modify existing themes myself or to a reasonably priced consultant. I imagine any of the changes I want done will be fairly easy for someone who understands the basic coding framework of WordPress.

    Also, I am not opposed to switching to another CMS altogether if there is a friendlier one. However, I have tried Joomla, Prestashop, opencart & Magento already, and they are certainly no easier.

    Thank you in advance, and sorry for the noobie questions, lol.

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    There really is not a WYSIWYG editor that will change how WP works, and there is a learning curve. Some themes have more built-in options so that can make it a bit easier – but you still have to spend time setting them up even if they don’t involve coding. Two such themes are Suffusion and Weaver, so you could check those out.

    But it sounds like you may just need to hire someone – and you could do that by posting a listing here:

    http://jobs.wordpress.net/

    But per the forum rules, we have to close threads on that topic as they attract too much spam. If you want to ask more questions about using WordPress, feel free to open another thread.

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