Wordpress - Where do I start?

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I've just installed Wordpress into my control panel and I'm looking to get something up on my website within a few weeks. Where do I start with all this, are there any plugins I should have, are themes and plugins easy to install/use?

Any useful guides that you've followed to help get started?
 
themes and plug ins are easy to use, first of all I would step away from the computer and decide what you want it to do, rather than getting bogged down with stuff you may not need.

When you have decided what you need find a theme that works well and use that along with any plug ins that you need to do accomplish what is needed.
 
Its very ease to configure and use, but a plan to start with is the best idea.

Wordpress uses a mixture of posts and pages. Pages are static pages which contain information which doesn't change much, Posts are your individual musings which can be sorted by categories.

Some themes are set up for pages, others for posts.

www.racingexposure.com/blog uses posts for most things, but the very top menu is pages.
www.dallara398.com uses posts and pages as well.
 
Cheers, all I want is a one page blog which links back to my website easily, nothing fancy. As Bludomain isn't great for SEO I'll be relying on the blog a fair bit. I guess once I've found a way to upload my logo I'll be looking at tips on how to use it all effectively.
 
Does anyone know how I can replace the text in the header of a theme with a logo?
 
Wordpress customisation usually means delving into either theme options to see if the theme designer has been helpful, and failing that, going into the editor and editing the code for the header, replacing the html code for the text with that for your logo.
 
You can download themes with interchangeable headers, but the best way is to, if you're fluent in CSS, have a dig around in the 'Header' CSS file of your current theme and try it that way.
 
You could try the Atahualpa theme, high customizable and very easy to do it too, the beauty about Wordpress is that it is very easy to change themes until you found one that you like.


Cheers
Ian
 
Ian_H said:
You could try the Atahualpa theme, high customizable and very easy to do it too, the beauty about Wordpress is that it is very easy to change themes until you found one that you like.


Cheers
Ian
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Thanks for that, I don't suppose you know of anything similar in black? I'm not up to scratch on CSS so I've posted something in the Wordpress forums, I really like the Bluemoon template, it's just the header text that I don't like.
 
Have a look at Piano Black....man it's black

Sliding door,

Picture perfect,
 
Dman said:
Thanks for that, I don't suppose you know of anything similar in black? I'm not up to scratch on CSS so I've posted something in the Wordpress forums, I really like the Bluemoon template, it's just the header text that I don't like.
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With this theme you don't really need any css experience once you have installed the template just go to your dashboard>Appearance>Atahualpa Theme Settings and you can change any colour you like in the theme with just a couple of clicks.


Cheers
Ian
 
have a look art artister. i was show this by a wed designer.

It make customising CSS very easy.
 
tiler65 said:
Have a look at Piano Black....man it's black

Sliding door,

Picture perfect,
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I use Piano black, once you get used to basic CSS coding its dead easy to work and customize

if you get stuck with anything just drop me a PM as I may miss some topics with not being online as often as I used to
 
whitey said:
I use Piano black, once you get used to basic CSS coding its dead easy to work and customize

if you get stuck with anything just drop me a PM as I may miss some topics with not being online as often as I used to
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I actually ended up going for this theme, it was simple to replace my logo and seems to be pretty easy to configure.
 
Dman said:
I actually ended up going for this theme, it was simple to replace my logo and seems to be pretty easy to configure.
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to go back to your OP, for plug ins I think the following are really useful regardless of what you want from your site

Askimet - Catches spam comments.
Contact form 7 - does what it says on the tin.
Wordpress file monitor. Watches for CSS and PHP files for changes. These shouldn't change so gives you quick warnings of any changes
Google analytics for wordpress. Generates GA code for every page on you site and inserts it as per googles reccomendation.

After that, I think it depends on what you want from the site

Hugh
 
I also use the Piano Black template for the blog section of my site (see signature) but have modified it quite a bit to match the pixelpost template for my gallery. Mainly involved changing a few dimensions and menu layout/position in the style.css, modifying the header and footer files and changing the images used for the template themselves.

Involved a bit of trial and error, so dunno if the code is 100% correct, but the site looks fine on my browser.
 
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