Hey everyone, I need some help with customization of wordpress. I'm not sure if it will be hard, but i'm not really experienced with changing TOO much in wordpress. Anyway, here's what I need: Home: I need my home page to be static. I need it to display a list of products that I choose in a table format (product name, pic, info, more button, etc.). Other than that, it can have widgets (or whatever) for latest comments, posts, tag cloud, etc. Page 2: I need this page to just be a page of pictures of products with buttons to read reviews or click like/dislike. Then each of the 5-10 products will have their own page with main info at top, and then the rest of the page(s) will be reviews written about that product. Also have a button to like/dislike product here as well. The more I think about it - is wordpress the best angle to get this? I need to be able to post content but i mainly need to have the homepage a static page, but the table is updated by the way users like/dislike a product.
You can set your static page as "home page", this option exists in admin panel. And set page2 as "blog page", the text for it can be whatever you want, for example "Products" in your case.
the only things on that page are: Blog pages show at most # posts Syndication feeds show the most recent #posts For each article in a feed, show: -Full text S-ummary Encoding for pages and feeds The character encoding of your blog (UTF-8 is recommended, if you are adventurous there are some other encodings)
Oops - I have to ADD pages before I can tell one to be static Anyway - Now it looks as thought I can have one static (and can't pick home) and one "blog" I want the default page called "home" to be static and default. I want the next page "reviews" to be static (if possible). I want the next page (3) to be the "blog" (articles, tag could, bla bla)
This is frustrating. Wordpress makes a default "home" page that I cannot delete or edit YET i can't use it for my static front page? WHAT?!?!?
in your theme folder you can able to find a file called home.php , where you can customize it as u wish and also u can add widgets and meta data wht ever u need .. if u dnt have home.php file ..create a new file of that name with ur content and upload it
So now my page has pages "home" and "reviews" at the top and the sub bar has categories but also has "home" along with other categories. I can't choose the "home" page to be my front static page - only the ones i've made. I'm tempted to switch to joomla or drupal :-/
Learn something about how the theme files work. If you find WordPress hard to use and turn to other scripts, you will definitely fail again. And by the way, Joomla and Drupal are much more complicated than WordPress.
Well, i'm fairly comfortable with drupal, but I just figured WP would allow me to put a site up quick and painlessly, but so far it hasnt'... Also, when I go to one of the other pages I created, it gives me a 404 error - i guess a problem with permalinks?