WordPress as a simple CMS – thoughts welcome

  • browsermedia

    (@browsermedia)


    19 years ago

    Your thoughts / feedback on a site we have created for our search engine marketing agency are very welcome.

    We have been loving WordPress and have today upgraded to 2.0.1 and are very impressed with the new admin back end.

    We created some simple templates for the site, which we have been happy with and it has gone down well considering it took about 3 hours to build, but now for some feedback from the WordPress pros…..

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    It looks nice.
    Two small things: I wouldn’t make a theme name with a space in it;
    and some margin/padding on the right side of the pics wouldn’t hurt – on the individual “case study” pages.

    lunabyte

    (@lunabyte)

    Clean, simple, effective.

    Something that might help later on, to keep that ‘professional’ look:

    Instead of hardcoding a date in the footer, use php to keep it up to date.

    For example:

    © 2005-<?php echo date(‘Y’); ?> My Site/Company

    Which the above reproduces © 2005-2006 My Site/Company.
    Now you have one less thing to remember to do.

    Doing the above has saved a lot of time on my end, plus when the new year rolls around, your site is ready to go and your visitors/clients see that your site is current.

    Yet another example of the power, flexibility, and greatness of WordPress. ??

    Thread Starter browsermedia

    (@browsermedia)

    Excellent comments – thank you very much.

    Have updated the date (agree – much easier to maintain) and changed the theme name.

    Also removed the excessive &nbsp tags and replaced with a spacer image (in the footer) and am planning on removing the javascript to place in an external file.

    Appreciate the feedback.

    ted1

    (@ted1)

    Great i like it, nice and simple. btw which sitemap plugin are you using?

    Thread Starter browsermedia

    (@browsermedia)

    No sitemap plugin – just created a template called ‘sitemap’ that uses the wp_list_pages function.

    Dickie

    (@dickie)

    Out of interest is the site built entirely from pages?
    I have produced a similar site (WordPress used as CMS), but I mixed pages and categories.

    The reason I ask is that when you are building the menu at the top and on the right, are you excuding particular pages as some so not appear?

    Nice site though

    Thread Starter browsermedia

    (@browsermedia)

    Hi Dickie,

    Most of the pages you can see are built as ‘pages’ but the news section is using the ‘posts’ feature, even though they look pretty similar.

    I have got a couple of different templates that I use but they all look similar.

    Yes – you are spot on about excluding pages. I do this on the top nav., the right hand nav. and on the sitemap page.

    Thanks

    lenwood

    (@lenwood)

    I agree, this is a very nice implementation of WP. Thanks for sharing.

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