WordPress as CMS

  • Nick

    (@njprrogersgmailcom)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    I’m looking to use wordpress as a CMS for a community website.

    As such, there won’t really be any blog elements.

    I’ve worked out that I should be looking at page.php and home.php initially but in the home page, I need to have 5 multiple boxes containing text which can be edited from within wordpress.

    How do I go about changing home.php and how are these text boxes then administered from the admin?

    Thanks in advance!

    Nick

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  • Might look at using Pages for that.

    Review:
    Stepping Into Template Tags
    Stepping Into Templates
    Template Hierarchy

    Use Pages
    You can edit them in html OR WYSWYG in the admin panel.
    Though WYSWYG is a bit messy – if you want to change something try deleting it first then redoing it rather than changing on top.

    I made a CONTENTS page and set it as the homepage in admin Settings.
    Then all its child pages create the site hierarchy.

    TIP To link a page to another page in the page content
    use the page ID
    LINK
    (Check you have your URLs set to look like that in settings)
    You get the correct number displayed on the frontend by hovering on the sidebar link to the page.

    Thread Starter Nick

    (@njprrogersgmailcom)

    I’ll definitely use pages.

    But just to clarify my question, I have multiple columns wrapped around html:
    <div class=”column-1″>
    Some content available for edit
    </div>
    <div class=”column-2″>
    Some more content for edit
    </div>
    <div class=”column-3″>
    Some more content for edit
    </div>
    <div class=”column-4″>
    Some more content for edit
    </div>

    I’d like to create editable content blocks within the Pages section of the admin for those columns.

    one way to do this would be to create child pages for each section, and then using query_posts you could pull the page. an alternative to using query_posts could be get_pages, with ‘childof’ set as the ID of the current page.

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