Slideshows

  • Orange

    (@leegrant)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m new to wordpress and really want to get to grips with how it all works, I work a lot with other content management systems but wordpress seems to be more a blogging platform to me (which the deeper I get I’ll probably find am wrong).

    So to my understanding to create a website homepage to have information blocks rather than news posts how would I do about this, would a certain category add a post to a selected section of my page?

    Also, would an image slideshow work on this basis of adding a new post per slide and how do I determine which post goes into these spots.

    Thank you

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    See Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

    Josh Feck

    (@builtbynorthby)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    For your first question: widgets are the way to go, you can register widgets anywhere on a page tempate, and you can pretty much put anything in a widget.
    see http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Plugins/WordPress_Widgets

    Question 2:
    There are themes out there, off the top of my head: Bloggie from themify, that have a slideshow built into the theme. For slideshows like that, you specify a category in the options panel, and the slideshow pulls the featured image from each post in that category.
    There are also a fair amount of plugins that generate slideshows as well.

    Thread Starter Orange

    (@leegrant)

    15 years, 6 months ago

    Just what I was after thanks.

    I found a tutorial on the slideshow part, turns out you do it by posts and using tags and custom fields!

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