wordpress for text editor geeks – all I want is a regular web page..

  • Ok, rather than spend countless hours trying to find some javascript or php code to give some people the ability to add some pretty content to a site(s) I designed and maintain, I thought I would give wordpress a go, as suggested by a few people I know.

    Here is a bit of history, I am not a prolific coder, but I am comfortable enough that I design my sites in textpad, once in while using NVU if I want to edit in a GUI environment. I use css for my div’s, menus, links etc and serve up my content for the menus etc. with php. Stone age I know, but I am comfortable with it and like the control.

    FF to now, I put up a quick site for a non profit group, and they want the ability to frequently change content on the page or pages. I registered a domain for them and hosted it on one of my netfirms packages. I noticed my package supports wordpress so I installed it from their control panel, tres slick!

    I managed to figure out how to make a page static, but I want this to look as much like an regular site and as little as a blog as possible. I am not used to this myriad of options and am constantly getting lost, for example I have just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to change the image in the template I am using.

    Did some searching for a “wordpress for dummies (or text editor geeks)” type tutorial that will tell me how to make an ordinary web page with wordpress, but no luck yet.

    suggestions?

    thanks in advance

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  • I don’t understand questions like this. You are comfortable with CSS, HTML, and some PHP. Why don’t you just design your site from scratch using the tools you know? Make your style sheet, code your page with HTML, and run the whole thing with PHP if you like. Why use a DB driven CMS to run a static site – only to use only a static page?

    I’m sure someone will come back and say “WP can do anything you want!” maybe so … but is it the best and easiest way to achieve what you want? I personally don’t think so. I use WP for my blog, and I created my website with HTML and CSS to style it.

    Thread Starter glenstr

    (@glenstr)

    Thanks for the reply

    Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough. This particular site is not going to be that static, content will change, as much as a couple of times a day. I’m not going to be changing it, non-tech users will. Having them enter text in a text editor amongst all the code is not something I want. I guess I could just get them to edit the content in something like NVU and ftp the edited page to the server, but I’d sooner not. I’d like them to just be able to change content from their browser. I originally got this idea when my wife worked at a library, their site was(is) done in wordpress and it was a breeze for her to change the content, and she is very non technical.

    I also have some other pages I did that require a lot of changes, and I’d sooner have the page set up so certain users can do those changes.

    I would say I am comfortable with php, css etc, I can edit downloaded scripts to tweak them etc, but I wouldn’t say I was good at it..

    WordPress.tv

    All the tutes you’d ever want, directly from the source.

    And by the way, plain-text coders are NOT stone age, thankyouverymuch.

    Thread Starter glenstr

    (@glenstr)

    Thanks, I’ll have a look at those, but for now, how the heck do I change the images in the themes? My theme is “this just in”

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