Customised Wordpress sites

[budfox]

I know nothing about coding whatsoever*, and I've managed to build plenty of Joomla sites without difficulty.

I do have a pretty good grip with HTML and CSS though, but then you need that to get the best out of Wordpress as well.

• Other than how to copy/paste/alter the very few lines of PHP required to implement the basic index.php page.

[cuneus]

miniman said:

Yep, IMHO Joomla is in another space to WordPress - it's a framework rather than a CMS.

Wordpress a CMS, I assume that was irony

I wouldn't inflict it on the MIL

[miniman]

What would you call it?

[Accelebrate]

budfox said:

Want an example? Wordpress blog layouts. Out of the box, posts appear in the order they we created. Newest first. End of.

Joomla offers oldest first, newest first, alphabetical A to Z and z to a, most hits first, least hits first and custom.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

I think the trouble with frameworks and CMS systems is that everyone always compares whatever new thing they're presented with to the thing they're either most familiar with or that best fits with their conceptual idea of how such a thing should be structured/coded/coloured in.

When I worked as a developer I preferred developing with Drupal, but Wordpress was brilliant if I needed to turn a project around quickly and had an admin interface that could be easily customised and handed over the client with minimal training.

Using custom post types and something like Posts2Posts http://scribu.net/wordpress/posts-to-posts/ you can do a lot more than you'd expect to be able to do with a glorified blogging platform.

Edited by Accelebrate on Thursday 31st July 15:42

[budfox]

Accelebrate said:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Quer...

Oh don't get me wrong, I know it can be done. After all, it's just a case of reading from a database.

I still stand by what I said though, because if you were to come from Wordpress "out of the box" to a similar Joomla install, you wouldn't say "oh no, they've given me some very sensible ways to organise my posts".

Besides anything else though, the media manager is an abomination. Even Windows 3 allowed people to create folders.

[cuneus]

miniman said:

What would you call it?

Not a CMS, someone else nailed it "a glorified blogging platform"

[miniman]

cuneus said:

Not a CMS, someone else nailed it "a glorified blogging platform"

I'd love to know when you last used it then.

[Hoofy]

Mmm. I jumped on the bandwagon when I discovered you can do pages rather than articles and make your site look like a site rather than a blog.

[miniman]

Hoofy said:

Mmm. I jumped on the bandwagon when I discovered you can do pages rather than articles and make your site look like a site rather than a blog.

So about 5 years ago

[Hoofy]

miniman said:

Hoofy said:

Mmm. I jumped on the bandwagon when I discovered you can do pages rather than articles and make your site look like a site rather than a blog.

So about 5 years ago

Well, about 3. Woulda been 5 had I known...

As for the order of articles, I don't see the problem - on my site, it's in reverse chronological order. Perfect.

Edited by Hoofy on Friday 1st August 18:48