WordPress vs PHP WordPress coding

  • Resolved benhowdle89

    (@benhowdle89)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m doing a site for a client and they want a blog and an articles area. What i imagined doing was designing the homepage in html/css/jquery etc…and then install WordPress through cPanel for the blog and the article area. I have a choice i need some help with, do i either install wordpress and create two categories “blog” and “article” and benefit from WordPress’ easy sitemap/SEO/publishing posts/URL friendly naming but have to hack one of the Themes to make it look exactly like the rest of the site. Or do i install wordpress but create pages myself (which will look like the rest of the site) and use WordPress PHP loops to grab posts etc. The sitemapping wont work and it probably wont be SEO friendly! Any advice from PHP/WordPress experts?? Thanks

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  • Chase Adams

    (@realchaseadams)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Why don’t you just use blog and article categories and exclude one from the main page and have a link to the category > Articles?

    Digital Raindrops

    (@adeptris)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Choose a “Version 3” compatable theme with the new menu’s structure.

    You can then fully control the menu items, adding Pages, Categories, Single Posts or URL’s.

    Install the twenty ten theme and have a look, you will find it would do most of what you want “out the box”, also look at using a child theme.

    In the Admin > Settings > Reading you can choose a static page for the landing page, and then use the menu to control the post pages, so no all blog posts page.

    HTH

    David

    Thread Starter benhowdle89

    (@benhowdle89)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for posts!

    I was in a rush to finish it so i dove straight into the themes css! All good now…

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