CMS: Pages / Categories / Posts

  • I am setting up a site that the client will eventually edit them selves. I am setting it up as CMS because no one will be making comments (as of yet) nor are they blogging.

    I am having a hard time keeping my head straight as to which pages to use!!

    They have an Events, News, and Programs section that they would post new articles to so do I set them up to post those as “pages” with the parent pointing to the correct section or as posts to that category?

    I mean I would think that I would set up my MENU to include all of the Categories – and do posts to the ones that have constant updates, but then to be a CMS I have make the home (contact, about, links, etc) actual “Pages”.

    I searched the site and have found notes on making the Home page static, and lot of templates that are CMS ready (and installed some good recommended CMS plugins) but I am trying to do this quickly and learn the best way to set this up quickly, having a hard time trying to figure out what these other templates are doing. I will eventually just redesign a good CMS template – but trying to get this up with their artwork asap to give them hope ??

    Any tidbit would be great – I am learning a lot quickly but once in a while get stuck in these eddies and not make progress.

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  • If I were you, I would use pages for static content that won’t be updated frequently, and use the blog for posting articles.

    Have you checked out the Docs section of this website? Or if you’re more of a visual learner, check out https://wordpress.tv – lots of WordPress tutorial videos.

    Thread Starter etype76

    (@etype76)

    Thank you! I cant believe after all the digging and searching I’ve done I didn’t know this existed!

    eli

    The site I have been working on is down right now so I can not send you there to see it.

    But, what I did is set up my home, about, contact as static pages.

    In the template I used any time you made a page a second layer deep it did not show up in the main page links, so I placed things I wanted to make a direct link to in a “sub page”

    For articles I use the “New Posts” and made my slug a shortened version of the article name. your domain name/slug can then be used as a link.

    Your article then can show up in your category list on the side bar.
    You can change the name of Categories to “Articles”

    Don’t know if this is the kind of thing you were asking.

    Oh, also so if you want your slug to decribe your page in your
    Setting>>Permalinks>> Custom Structure use: %postname%

    Hope this helps…

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