new user here. got some questions if you dont mind :)

  • first of all, what exactly is wordpress? i thought it’s a free website? i mean why does it deal about posts all the time? so my home page will consists mainly of posts? i’m used to html notepad pure coding. right now we have a project on making a retail store using wordpress. but how can i make a page that shows all my products like mobile phones? because pages are static. and i was planning to categorize them according to mobile brands. but isn’t it that pages dont have categories? should i just use posts to sell my products? i’m really confused :((

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  • Welcome to WordPress! WordPress is a free web software which you can install on your server to run and maintain a website. It’s called a “content management system” or CMS. WordPress can be used for pretty much any type of website – definitely not limited to “posts.” If you’d like to setup a really nice online store (eCommerce) there are some great premium themes here. With WordPress you’ll be able to setup a shopping cart, use paypal or some other payment system and organize your products better than you think!

    Thread Starter cherrydee

    (@cherrydee)

    but how can i construct a “product gallery” page if all i can do in the wp-admin is write contents? i am planning to have a page to display all products thumbnails. upon clicking a thumbnail, another page will show up containing product info, specs, and add to cart icon. (i have cart plug in already)
    btw thanks for the reply ??

    You could create a page – “product gallery” – and insert thumbnails for all your items. Then you could link those pictures to the actual product’s page which has the information you listed.

    @cherrydee, you can do that by having a ecommerce wordpress theme. There a lot of free ones available. One such excellent theme i know is on woo themes. just check it out.

    WordPress is not just limited to post (i.e blogs) you can make any sort of website as you wish ??

    Thread Starter cherrydee

    (@cherrydee)

    so if i have the main product page, and i have this nokia N7 page, all i have to do is link the thumbnail to the page of nokia n7? but how can i know the URL of the nokia n7 page?

    @shail thanks for the reply. i’m googling one now ??

    You can get the link of the page by opening up that page in your browser and copying the url.

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