Wordpress the open source CMS? -Tips and Tricks III
To use WordPress as a more conventional CMS, for less blog-ish content and presentation style. We’re looking at portfolio sites, news and magazine sites, article libraries, gallery sites, photologs, e-commerce sites, and many more. Thus, it means to push WP beyond what it was originally intended to do - publishing blogs - and into the realm of more robust and perhaps more complex CMSes, like Drupal and XOOPS, or into the realm of CMSes specialised in other fields, like Vivvo (for news and article sites) and WSN Gallery (for media galleries).
But speaking generally sucks, so here’s some specifics on the many ways to use WP as a CMS (plus some examples too):
- Using WP for a Portfolio Site
To use WP to handle an online portfolio, it will have to be modified to make posts in WP hold individual projects (e.g. web designs, photography, art, etc.) you’ve worked on. This means that instead of the main page listing your daily ramblings in reverse chronological order, it should be able to list your projects in that order - but perhaps only with a thumbnail. Perhaps even custom fields will have to be utilised to make project administration more standardised. A couple of examples of using WP to do so are eric-powell.com and FreeWay Design. - Using WP for an E-Commerce Site
For e-commerce sites, not only will you have to make product pages that list thumbnails of your products, you would also have to integrate a payment solution (e.g. PayPal) into WordPress. Allowing your customers to dynamically change the ordering of your products in those pages, whether according to recency, price or rating, may also be necessary. A couple of examples of using WP for ecommerce are Filipino Artisans, Above The Fold, and Bell Vance Art. - Using WP for a Gallery
Using WP for galleries isn’t much different from using it for portfolios. But there are some differences, including the need to allow commenting and rating for individual gallery items, display of top rated items, and dynamic sorting. Some WordPress powered galleries include webdesignbook.net and Lovely Blogs. - Using WP for a Photoblog
Again, the concept of using WordPress for photoblogs is similar to using WP for galleries or portfolios. But there are unique customisations that will have to be applied for photoblogs, including automatic resizing of uploaded images and easy publishing of a photo’s exif data. Two examples of WP-powered photologs include Pictorialis and dilineate. - Using WP for a News or Magazine Site
News and magazine sites usually need to have feature articles kept on the front page, free of WP’s default reverse chronological display format. They might also need category pages (e.g. for sports news, international news, etc.) with the same implementation (i.e. feature articles specific to the category). Examples include XXL Magazine and Cebu Living. - Using WP for Article Libraries
Article libraries generally need to manage and display articles in a hierarchical manner, yet must also be able to display those articles in reverse chronological order without hierarchy
For article on wordpress you can read from following links.
- Fundamental Theory
- Fundamental Technical Stuff
- All-in-One Guides
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Convert any template to Wordpress theme: Tips and tricks wordpress II
Further to post from daya, i found some more from Leon Kilat ::: The Cybercafe Experiments website how to convert normal templates into WP theme. You can read the full text here: How to convert any web template into a WordPress theme .
You can also see this nice video tutorial available on same website here: Turning a web template into a WordPress theme: a video tutorial.
Hope someone will use it and we will have more nice and clean free WordPress themes.
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Wordpress enhancement - tips $ tricks
Wordpress is the best blogging system in the earth today. You have thousands of plugins and widgets, and thousands of themes and templates to try whatever you want, mind it all that for absolutely free. Further enhance and upgrade your blog, here are some of the greatest script and hack, which will help you to modify your Wordpress look and feel right from commenting system to administration. Some of the cool feature includes easily enhancing your Wordpress with lots of ajax. But, you must look through fabulous resource at http://dev.wp-plugins.org/ and http://codex.Wordpress.org for resources.
- WP HowTo: ButtonSnap How To Add buttons to the Wordpress Editor for your Plugin / Theme using the ButtonSnap Class Library from RedAlt (Owen) and the Sawchuk Buttons Plugin. Installation is not a snap but might produce some worthwhile results
- WP Hack: comments.php template Highly flexible and customizeable comments template for Wordpress with lots of added features used by various comment plugins and hack for Wordpress. Very useful if you are about to restyle your comments but did not want to start from scratch.
- WP Comments built with Yahoo! UI Weird cool, highly AJAXed Wordpress commenting system built with Yahoo! UI. The experience is definitely worth a clickthrough though I am really not sure of the usability of many of the features. Looks more like a showcase for the Yahoo UI capabilities and the programming capabilities of the author than actual functional improvements. However, it seems to be very well accepted by the public and is definitely full of eye candy!
- Read Cleaning up your Post Screen on how you can remove unwanted clutter on your post screen. You need to be comfortable editting WordPress core files.
- SlideShowPro and WordPress Integerate SlideshowPro within your Wordpress blog. SlideshowPro is a flash slideshow component for Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8.
- WP Hack: Yet another photoblog Convert any Wordpress theme for your blog into a full featured photoblog theme with YAPB. The author claims that it is a non-invasive Wordpress plugin which integerates useful photoblogging features such as thumbnail creation and exif tagging
WP Hack: AjaxWp Enhance and adorn your Wordpress blog with AJAX goodness. From the documentation that I could find on the site, it looks like AJAXWP will add AJAX functionality to your existing theme without any required modifications but you can get a lot more from the package by delving under the covers. The author′s blog is an example of AJAXWP′s capabilities. (3)
- Cloaking to Stop Scraping How to cloak your blog content from known content theives. This is a little extreme but it did have very good results in this case.
WP hack: Widgetizing Themes Modify your themes to work with the cool Wordpress.com widgets for the sidebar. Explanation of widgets on the Automattic page.
[EDIT] Widgets Plugin with demonstrations from Andy.
- Posting to WP Via SMS Text Message: Post to your Wordpress blog by Texting from your cellphone. This is somewhat of a tutorial to set this up for Nokia phones
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Wordpress enhancement - tips $ tricks
Wordpress is the best blogging system in the earth today. You have thousands of plugins and widgets, and thousands of themes and templates to try whatever you want, mind it all that for absolutely free. Further enhance and upgrade your blog, here are some of the greatest script and hack, which will help you to modify your Wordpress look and feel right from commenting system to administration. Some of the cool feature includes easily enhancing your Wordpress with lots of ajax.
- WP HowTo: ButtonSnap How To Add buttons to the Wordpress Editor for your Plugin / Theme using the ButtonSnap Class Library from RedAlt (Owen) and the Sawchuk Buttons Plugin. Installation is not a snap but might produce some worthwhile results
- WP Hack: comments.php template Highly flexible and customizeable comments template for Wordpress with lots of added features used by various comment plugins and hack for Wordpress. Very useful if you are about to restyle your comments but did not want to start from scratch.
- WP Comments built with Yahoo! UI Weird cool, highly AJAXed Wordpress commenting system built with Yahoo! UI. The experience is definitely worth a clickthrough though I am really not sure of the usability of many of the features. Looks more like a showcase for the Yahoo UI capabilities and the programming capabilities of the author than actual functional improvements. However, it seems to be very well accepted by the public and is definitely full of eye candy!
- Read Cleaning up your Post Screen on how you can remove unwanted clutter on your post screen. You need to be comfortable editting WordPress core files.
- SlideShowPro and WordPress Integerate SlideshowPro within your Wordpress blog. SlideshowPro is a flash slideshow component for Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8.
- WP Hack: Yet another photoblog Convert any Wordpress theme for your blog into a full featured photoblog theme with YAPB. The author claims that it is a non-invasive Wordpress plugin which integerates useful photoblogging features such as thumbnail creation and exif tagging
� WP Hack: AjaxWp Enhance and adorn your Wordpress blog with AJAX goodness. From the documentation that I could find on the site, it looks like AJAXWP will add AJAX functionality to your existing theme without any required modifications but you can get a lot more from the package by delving under the covers. The author�s blog is an example of AJAXWP�s capabilities. (3)
- � Cloaking to Stop Scraping How to cloak your blog content from known content theives. This is a little extreme but it did have very good results in this case.
WP hack: Widgetizing Themes Modify your themes to work with the cool Wordpress.com widgets for the sidebar. Explanation of widgets on the Automattic page.
[EDIT] Widgets Plugin with demonstrations from Andy.
- Posting to WP Via SMS Text Message: Post to your Wordpress blog by Texting from your cellphone. This is somewhat of a tutorial to set this up for Nokia phones
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