Tag Archives: page
Creating new templates in WordPress
The great thing about WordPress is not only is it easy to manage your own site content, but it’s easy to manage how your site looks. The Appearance tab on the left side of WordPress’ dashboard is full of all the bells and whistles needed to make your site visually stunning. And if you’ve tinkered around with the Editor in the Appearance tab, I’m sure by now you’ve realized how easy it can be to edit your current theme.
But what if the options available to you aren’t enough? Having a general style for your pages and blog posts is fine, but what if you want each page to have its own spotlight, and what if you want each category of posts to have it’s own flair? This can get really complex depending on how far you’d like to go, so for now we’ll just cover some basic techniques – how to create a page template and how to create a template for a category. (more…)
Thinking like WordPress in Magento: Keeping content editor-friendly
One of the key reasons why developers may choose to integrate a website into WordPress is the ability to make it maintainable by the user. And most people who get their sites created would prefer if it things like copy and images were editable. If none of the content is editable at all, then what WordPress has to offer isn’t being fully taken advantage of. (more…)
