• Hi.

    I′m considering using WordPress for a webpage. A far as I know WordPress is developed for weblogs. But my purpose is to develop a website for my hockey team. Is WordPress an alternative for this considering that I need a roster module, a standings module, a schedule module etc, etc.

    Or should I choose something else like Joomla or Postnuke?!

    /Regards Mats

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  • There are many “regular” webpages using WP. However, only you could know what a roster module, a standings module, a schedule module is – since WP doesn’t have any module system.
    It has zillions of plugins (which I guess, sometimes, have similar role as modules in other scripts).

    As a totally anti-sport user I have no idea what those modules are supposed to do. For sure, looking just at their names, I can’t remember anything similar around WP.

    Thread Starter sekarmaeu

    (@sekarmaeu)

    Hi.

    What I’m after is a plugin, a module (or whatever you would like to call it) where you easily can post a list of players with a link to a page specific for each player where information of ther age, height, weight, position on the field etc, etc can be presented.

    Also a plugin where you can administer a scoreboard and stuff like that.

    I’m a sports addict AND a computer nerd… ??

    I don’t know if this is the place to put this particular question, or if I should just start a new topic, but here it goes.

    I’m currently working on my own website, independent of WP, but I thought it would be good to add a blog section to my website, and WP seems like a really good one. I installed WP on my own personal web server, and I intend to transfer over my code to a godaddy site once I’ve got all my code squared away, since GoDaddy has WP as part of its domain hosting package.

    Looking at the features in WP, I like what I can do with it, but I’m wondering how best to use what I have (and the design I already have) and WP.

    Here are my thoughts:

    1. Abandon my web code as I have written it. Instead, create an entire theme around my original design, and use WP’s code as my code base for my website entirely, extending it through the theme as I need to.
    2. Keep my web code, and integrate my code with WP’s DB, using WP as my blog editor only.
    3. Develop a simpler theme to mimic the look of my website’s design, and integrate my code with WP’s wherever I can, so that the two are indistinguishable, and work side by side.

    None of these options seem too good to me, but I think the last one might work best for me. But do you good folks have any ideas?

    Did someone one ask for free advice? Without a url to your site, KnightSword, I couldn’t guess the best path, but I’ll try anyway. I’d install WP in some subdirectory of your existing site or a subdomain, find a theme that is close and tweak it so it’s close enough. People are pretty used to shifting L&F as they move around a website. If you go that route, nothing precludes you doing those other options at a later time.

    If your primary goal is to only have one place to enter content, then you need a single CMS that’s up to the job if you are. Converting a static site to WP pages has some “wasn’t that fun” moments which might matter to a high traffic site.

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