Is this design possible with WP?

  • I want to replace my current static page website with a WordPress site. Is the following easily doable?

    There will be multiple users posting. The home page will have a lot of content including “latest articles” which show the beginning of the latest few posts by whoever posted the most recently (excluding John Doe – see below), and “featured articles” which will show the most popular posts according to what has been voted-up recently (I believe there’s a plugin to allow voting up posts). A third area on the home page will have John Doe’s latest posts, as he is the site’s main poster who should have his own section on the home page at all times. I envision a magazine format (I think) for all these sections where all the posts just show the first x characters, and visitors will need to click on each post to read the full post.

    Is WP designed to allow me to create highly customized pages with multiple sections laid out like this as I want?

    Are there commonly used PHP functions that I could make use of to examine attributes of posts to determine which posts to display anywhere on a page according to my criteria? Or would I need to code all my own functions as a hack to access the database to pull this info?

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  • Everything you said you want is built into WordPress, or is in available themes and plugins. You almost never need to “hack access to the database”. You do have to learn how WordPress works. Its complex and that takes time.

    well any kind of design is and can be converted to wordpress. Some level of coding is needed but you can convert almost anything to wordpress

    WordPress was designed to really be a handful of features that automate a lot of what you need to do in a typical post / comment sort of website. Anything WordPress cannot do can be added/extended in the form of a plugin, and editing the layout should be as easy as modifying the templates files that display information.

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