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sodani
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Oops, did something wrong. I’m looking for someone to install a blog (wordpress or moveable type) on my site. I’ve set up blogs before, and this installation is a little more involved than what I’m able to do. Does anyone know of any good bidding sites? I’ve put up a posting on ScriptLance.com, but was just wondering if there might be any sites that are more blog-intensive.
Thanks
You can probably find someone good, cheap, and fast at sitepoint.com.
I’ve seen several threads on word press intallations.
There’s always elance.com
The installation is rather easy to set up. I am sure you can do it your self
As long as you have the database name or your server name
user name
and passord
thats really all you need. just like if you were to use your ftp
Pfft, I bet you can do it. It’s really not that hard.
What part are you having trouble with?
Thread Starter
sodani
(@sodani)
Well, basically I want to install wordpress onto my site – radresearch.com and use it as a content management system. That is, rather than my adding daily links by hand, I would like to use the blog software. If I’m not going about this the right way, please tell me. I appreciate it.
WP is quite flexible – I’ve seen it used in many different ways. With some tweaking and customization you could probably use it for what you want.
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sodani
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What makes my situation difficult (at least for me) is the following:
– posts will consist of a number of parts
1. title that links to an article (on different site)
2. description
3. date the article was published
4. a number of categories, and within each category, it will be classified as either a ‘study’ ‘news article’ or ‘commentary’. When a surfer goes to a category page, they should be able to see all postings under each respective classification.
5. posting date. However, when posts are archived, I want them listed by published date (#3) and not posting date.
Does anyone know if this is feasible, and if so, I am willing to pay someone to do it. Either that, or if you could point me to an article on how to do this, that would be wonderful.
Thanks!!
Everything can be done.
There is no one article that would teach you.
There is the Codex.
I’ve learned everything from the Codex and by dissecting various themes.
What exactly do you mean by title that links to an article (on different site)? Is the article posted in/by WP or…?
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sodani
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Moshu – I will check out the Codex. Thanks.
What I mean by #1 is the title of the article that I’m linking to. The article will be on various news sites (i.e. New York Times). I understand now that this means customizing the posting template so that it has all the fields that I need.
Sodani, instead of customizing the posting template, a small plugin could be written so that the target link would be a custom field in the post. Then the blog template gets modified to use that custom field as the link instead of the default permalink 🙂
Thread Starter
sodani
(@sodani)
I’ve gotten a plugin now that creates custom fields, and I have no problem writing posts with the correct custom fields. However, I’m trying to tweak category pages so that it lists posts that belong to 2 categories. The second category is a True/False custom field I set up, which doesn’t appear in my category list.
I have also set up an additional custom field for a separate date of the postings, and I’d like the category pages (only) to show the posts according to the chronological order of this custom field, and not the posting date.
Does anyone know how to do either of these?
