Could I do this with wordpress? (CMS question)

  • Hey all,

    I am mostly a After Effects/Flash guy, I do a lot of HD greenscreen video work bring into AE, mess around in Flash and make edutainment interactive videos. I have a basic knowledge of XHTML and CSS, but I do code a descent amount in Flash(AS3) so I’m not a total noob.

    My question is this, I have a simple website , I want to use wordpress as a page that will link to various free educational videos that will be embedded on a seperate page. So much like a blog, I have a picture of the video on the left and to the right a brief description and to the bottom of that a button that links to the embedded video on another page. Basically very similiar to https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/

    So the viewers can make comments, theres a view counter, then at the bottom a list of videos, at the top categories that seperate each kind of video.

    And I need it to have more or less the same style as the website I already have. Is this something that WordPress would be suited for? And would it be very difficult?

    All replies much appreciated

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  • Sure, you can do pretty much anything you want on WordPress, depends on how much you’re willing to touch some PHP code and tweak a template to look how you want it to. CSS will be a must.

    WordPress can be a blog, or not be a blog – all up to you. Go into the Codex documentation for WordPress and read the getting started with WordPress. You can also search the codex and also google for “wordpress as a CMS” and you’ll get more info there.

    There are a zillion WordPress templates (called themes) out there. You can find them here on the www.remarpro.com site or google for free themes. Find one that’s close to the layout you want your site to be, install it on your WP site, and begin tweaking away.

    I am a web designer, and just completed my first WordPress website for a client – they requested the site be done in WordPress. It’s primarily a CMS website with a page for a blog, not primarily a blog. Yeah, there was a learning curve, and at times I was frustrated by something I could have done in HTML/CSS in five minutes took me 30 minutes — but next time, I will be able to do it in 5 minutes in WP too. Just be willing to accept there’s a learning curve. I have a TON of respect for WordPress after working on this project – you really can do pretty much anything in WordPress that you can outside of it – just have patience at first.

    Good luck to you.

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