Archive for February, 2007

Early next steps

A few things I want to test and do on this website: Edit the templates - single, archive, category, post(?) to make the layout more like I want. In particular, I want to remove references to comments and "posted by" and just show which category something is in (and also, perhaps, date ...

The Home Page

Now it's time to get the look and the layout of the home page just right.  The home page can be static, in that its content can be changed by editing via the admin section only, or it can be dynamic, in that all or part of it can be updated whenever ...

Plugins

These are the Plugins which I think will be most useful for my "typical" website. Maintenance mode - a handy option which allows you to display a polite "website unavailable" message to visitors, while still allowing signed-in administrators access to view the website. Visualize Advanced Features - ...

Get the Look

Get the look right.  Hopefully you have some kind of look - colours, fonts - in mind and ideally a header image, even a logo.  Select a likely theme as a basis.  See Using Themes and Theme Development for reference. Work on the style.css and header.php and footer.php files to ...

Updateable Home Page

What I want is an updateable home page and a set of subsidiary pages, including a subsidiary blog (with the typical blog front page). It seems that this combination is not formally supported within WordPress.  So, there are a few options I can choose from:  Use the WordPress blog home page as my home ...