andys

So I've managed to get to the stage of registering custom post types and getting them to show up in the wordpress admin panel. Basically what I want to do is section off each part of the page and have editable areas that I can post content into (I'll be getting into the more complicated uses of custom post types in due course). I have my site set up with 6 different pages (all from wordpress 'template' pages I made with currently, no content in them), home, about, services, news etc. I have the main posts going into the news page, all other pages are currently blank. I just can't find a definitive answer on how to make my custom posts show up. here's my functions.php code for a part custom post add_action('init', 'frontpage_top_init'); function frontpage_top_init() { $args = array( 'label' => __('Homepage - Header Text'), 'singular_label' => __('Homepage - Header Text'), 'public' => true, 'publicly_queryable' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => true, 'capability_type' => 'post', 'hierarchical' => false, 'menu_position' => 5, 'supports' => array('editor') ); register_post_type('Headerhome',$args); } So what this is going, is defining the label it'll show in the admin panel, where it shows up in the admin panel, and it only has the editer, so no title, comments or meta data. Now, how the heck do I post this? Also, meta title tags. On each page(except the home and 'news' page, both of those just have the site title) it says the page name + the name of my site. I'd prefer it to just say the page name of the page.

Don't use flash is my only suggestion, at this point using flash for an entire site feels like a bigger sin than use tables for layout.

Thanks Mike, i'll take a look at those things. Anything in specific you think it's worth reading/watching on them(apart from the obvious one of wordpress's codex)?

I think you've misunderstood (not being a wordpress user). Templates in wordpress are not 'static', it might be say a template of your index page without the content, allowing you to post whatever you want there.

(This is probably going to be stupid, but I'll ask anyway at the risk of sounding like a dunce) I understand how to theme for wordpress, in the process of building a couple of sites with it at the moment. After I got over the initial learning curve of the way you need to do things with it things made much more sense. Though, I'm still quite confused. So wordpress is basically modular, it's just different .php files building up the pages. Very simply for example, you have your header.php, content.php (with sidebar.php or multiple 'widget' ready areas in it) and footer.php. Template pages can then be created and assigned names, about, contact etc. Now you can dump any HTML you want into the templates and it'll look just like any web page, plus you can make any area of it 'editable' But how do you make say, two separate area's on one page editable? Or allow a client to post say an image, that automatically is say surrounded by a div that turns a colour when you hover over it and gives a description? That's incredibly easy for me to do in html and css, but I obviously can't expect a client to be able to write code, that's my job. People keep saying how great wordpress is as a CMS and that it's the easiest to use for the non technical folks, there must ways to do these things. Cheers.

Looks much better now. Had no symmetry before.

Don't these 'Here's a theme we didn't make, review it' threads get closed?

Haha.

It looks good. I'd say keep the ribbon, but make it more obvious that it's a navigation menu.

Are you denying that the vast majority of template resellers 'as I call them' are basically pumping out low quality themes, re-skinned with a new font/colour and calling it bespoke(I also hate that word)? I'd bet most don't even consider how it fits with what the client needs. I don't consider anything 'my territory' either, I'm intermediate, still learning a lot of stuff, like I'm sure most of us (hopefully) are. What I do know is this kind of shady business practice isn't good for the rest of us, just like people doing poor quality design work. If someone resells themes, provides great working sites, support and customisation, fantastic. There was an agency up my way in Edinburgh, can't find the site now, but their portfolio of 'bespoke' designs was two themes, reskinned over and over again, it was bloody hilarious. Maybe I'm naive, or just stupid, but I think we should all hold ourselves to higher standards as designers, whatever we do and sell.

I'm not trying to 'mud sling', I hope it didn't come across that way, that's not my intention. Nor am I saying you're taking credit for someone else's work. Just trying to determine if you're doing design work or if you're reselling themes. If you are and people are happy with it, that's fine. I just think design work should be completely tailored from top to bottom, even a static site with something like cushy CMS would be better than a template in my opinion. And honestly, people that are selling templates should call themselves template resellers as opposed to web designers. Because while your intentions may be entirely honourable, I see FAR too many 'design agencies' taking business away from better designers with poor quality 'work' in the form of re-skinned templates, sometimes the only change is the colour. It takes advantage of clients who have very little technical know-how and gives a bad image to the industry as a whole, not to mention driving down prices.

Not to question your skills as a designer, they may well be fantastic. But is your personal website, that you're selling design services from, built with http://www.proframework.com/? From their site:- I wondered why your advocacy of theme reselling was so strong. Are you just doing drag and drop to child themes of this framework and selling them?

1000 internets for you, Sir. The problem I have with templates and 'template resellers', as I call them, is that they aren't really doing much (or any) design work. Mostly. Some of them are probably very good designers and also ethical, telling clients exactly what they're buying. I'd be 90% of the time though, they aren't. All they want to do is make a quick buck, pump out low quality work and take a dump on the industry. In fact I'd be willing to bet that for any competent designer, editing a template to get both the look and functionality anywhere near what they'd make with a bespoke design would take almost as much work as starting from scratch. At least I could never be happy selling something where I didn't have intricate knowledge of the code from front to back for when (not if) something breaks down the road. I see template resellers the same as offshoring (which a lot of it is anyway), it drives down the value of what real designers do.

I just don't know why they're here to be honest. Shouldn't they enjoy what they're doing and actually want to learn how to make their own designs? It's usually always the same excuse too, "oh, I never had time but I just wanted to get your take on this, yes it's a template theme but next time I'll do my own design seriously! My clients don't mind at all!". It's almost as annoying as those indian web design firms (or rather farms) that pump out low grade crap that's normally the same template used over and over again with the colour changed and different (but equally laughable) stock images. Both of them give a bad name to the industry and real designers who actually want to do REAL design work and charge a reasonable rate for it. Most people don't know jack squat about what it takes to design, let alone develop a website so they get confused when you're asking for £800 and someone else is offering their template/off shore farmed crap for £250. We need to unionise or something, haha.

Won't load for me.

Header - good body - good 3 tab thing at the bottom - not good.

Damnit! This was one of the best sites out there for getting really great looking tilable backgrounds and now it's gone. Anyone got anything similar?

So basically you don't even want to design, you just want 'quick turn around' while you pretend you're a designer, stealing and reselling wordpress themes? Professional dishonesty like this gives the whole industry a bad name.

After lots of research I can't find a concrete answer on how to move a wordpress based site to a new domain. I've done a lot of testing and I can successfully: 1. export the database 2. download the site in it's entirety 3. restore it. Yet when I do, all the links (like comments etc) are linked to the 'old' domain name. I created a new database with new username and password and edited the wp-config file to the new stuff. I'm not really sure where to go from here.

Holy ****? That should be illegal.

Was there any feedback from her, or just shouting and bitching?

Just out of interest, what font are you using for the main body of text and the headers?

It looks good, you're photoshop skills are better than mine (why I design on paper ). One thing I'd do is instead of making everything say 960px wide in rectangular boxes, is make each thing (header, portfolio, about me, footer) full width so it fills the page, then have a centered div within each to constrain the content. I find that makes pages seem less 'boxy'. Keep it up.

Looks like a template.

It looks great, I love the textures and the overall elegant design. The slab serif at the top seems a little large perhaps but I actually like the header typeset, looks very elegant. The body type is readable and the graphics and contact form look nice.